It’s the season of new beginnings! With winter behind you, now is the time to get your house in order and re-assess, re-evaluate and refine your business travel processes. From reviewing whether your travellers have the tools and information they need to make smart buying decisions to reexamining and communicating your travel policy, there’s...
Celebrating Women’s Month with Thompsons Travel
On 9 August 1956, twenty thousand women marched to Pretoria to protest against the Urban Areas Act. Proof that women in South Africa will always stand together and support each other, the 9th of August has been celebrated as a public holiday since. With the whole month of August recognised as Women’s Month, we...
How Gen Z is Reshaping Business Travel
Generation Z is very different from their forebears, with their values and expectations shaped by having grown up during the recession, difficult political climates, and the rapid evolution of technology. Gen Z consumer behaviour and spending patterns are reshaping the business travel landscape. Within fifteen years, Gen Zs will be the decision makers of...
4 Solutions for Common Business Travel Hurdles
Unlike going on a holiday, business travel is all about how much productivity you can squeeze into a limited amount of time. No matter how well you have planned, even the most seasoned road warriors run into hurdles on their business trips. From long airport queues and language barriers to adjusting your body clock...
5 Things to Look for in a Travel Management Partner
A travel management partner will do the heavy lifting of business travel for your company; carefully track, monitor, and evaluate all of your business travel data, providing insights into how and where to reduce costs. Additionally, you will benefit from industry-proven advice and expertise to get the best value for money within your company’s...
Why Hire a Travel Management Partner
Are you spending hours looking for flights and booking accommodation for your company’s business travellers? Does organising transport or managing travel claims leave you feeling frustrated? If the stress of business travel planning is getting in the way of the regular demands of your job, you need a travel management partner. Whether it is...
How Technology is Redefining Business Travel
Business travel is one of the fastest changing segments of the travel industry today. The accelerated digital environment allows executives to conduct business in unprecedented ways – you could begin a business transaction over a conference call this afternoon, and fly out to seal the deal in person tomorrow morning. In order to keep...
3 Things To Know About PCI
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) is a global data security standard to protect confidential payment card information against fraud and theft. Airlines have demanded that the International Air Transport Association (IATA) support their own internal compliance project, which is why IATA Accredited Travel Agents now need to become PCI DSS compliant....
3 Ways to Cut Business Travel Costs
Are you looking for cost-reduction strategies which can be applied to your organisation’s business travel budget? From partnering with specialists and planning ahead to updating your travel policy, here are 3 ways you can cut your business travel costs. 1) Partner with a Travel Management Company Key to your cost-saving strategies, partnering with business...
Your Guide to Business Travel Budgeting in 2018
Travel is one of the most challenging and emotive of all expense categories for which to budget. Not only is overall travel volume unpredictable, but the cost of any given trip depends on market rates and demand, and is based on thousands of purchasing decisions made by employees. As leaders in business travel, we...