Travel management company, BCD Travel, keeps its corporate travel clients abreast of major security alerts and advisories as they are issued by the Federal Government, providing advice and assistance to corporate travel clients intending to visit countries for business or leisure where alerts have been issued.

Alerts can be issued for a number of reasons, including security and health. The most recent advisories related to security involve the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Spain, Thailand and Somalia. Health advisories have been issued for countries such as Vanuatu, where a series of dengue fever outbreaks have been recently recorded.

Part of corporate travel management is keeping corporate travel clients updated on major new alerts. The five levels of travel advisories are: ‘be alert to your own security’; ‘exercise caution and monitor developments that might affect your safety’; ‘exercise a high degree of caution’; ‘reconsider your need to travel’ and ‘advised not to travel’.

Travel management company, BCD Travel, has released its 2008 Travel Program Survey, revealing a 23 per cent increase in companies whose corporate travel policy enforcement is either “strict” or “moderate to strict”, compared to 2007.

The corporate travel management report showed that 59 per cent of respondents were proactively seeking to increase corporate travel compliance in their organizations compared to 36 per cent in 2007.

During tough economic times, corporate travel clients are appreciating even more the quality and value of advice provided by travel management companies such as BCD Travel.

Among the measures being taken is increased usage of online booking tools to reduce corporate travel processing costs and setting tighter parameters regarding preferred suppliers. Companies can customize their individual policies using BCD Travel’s online booking system. With the click of a button, BCD Travel’s corporate travel management clients can change their company rules any time they like.

Corporate travel clients across Australia are increasing concerned with reducing corporate travel costs in light of the global financial crisis and anticipated slow down in the Australian economy, according to corporate travel management company, BCD Travel.

In its 2008 Travel Program Survey, 97 per cent of respondents cited reducing corporate travel costs as a major priority for the coming 12 months.

In line with this, BCD Travel, which has offices in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, has noted a significant decline in bookings for overseas corporate travel over the past few months, as local companies become more frugal and the Australian dollar continues its decline against the greenback.

Corporate travel management clients are also tightening their policies on the frequency and type of corporate travel allowed in their organizations, with options such as business class now strictly reserved for longer haul corporate travel flights.

BCD Travel offers significant flexibility and customization with its online corporate travel management programs, allowing clients to change their corporate travel rules with the click of a button. Comprehensive reporting functions also enable managers to quickly identify their organisation’s corporate travel habits and take measures to change them through compliance and communication.

Leading corporate travel agency, BCD Travel, makes managing corporate travel expenses so easy through the use of its cutting-edge online booking engine (OBE).

BCD Corporate Travel uses renowned industry program, Cliqbook, to assist its corporate travel clients with their corporate travel bookings and corporate travel expense management.

Clients can check their company’s corporate travel expenses at any time and can easily generate expense reports for review with the click of a few buttons.

The Cliqbook online booking engine (OBE) also enables BCD Travel to tailor the system to suit each of their individual corporate travel clients, ensuring compliance with things such as preferred airlines and first class travel for flights above a certain number of hours only.

BCD Travel is the third-largest corporate travel management (TMC) company in the world and invests only in the industry’s best online technology solutions, including easy-to-use self-booking travel tools (SBT), to make corporate travel simple for its clients.