Are you considering including bleisure in your company travel policy? Bleisure, in which business travellers add on a few leisure days to their business trip, is a convenient way to combine two trips, save costs and see more of a destination. Plus, by spending more time on the ground recovering from jetlag and having a couple days to...
Your Guide to Business Travel Budgeting in 2019
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...
Green Focus: Who We Support & What They Do
At Thompsons Travel, we take sustainable tourism to heart, and enthusiastically encourage business travel that employs environmentally friendly practices, protects cultural and natural heritage, and provides tangible social and economic benefits for local communities. “Sustainable tourism ecompasses more than the traditional definitions of environmentally friendly efforts,” says Chantal Kliche, Retail Manager of Thompsons Travel,...
How to Write a Travel Policy & Why it Matters
In a 2016 global study of business travellers conducted by Egencia, the corporate travel brand of the Expedia group, findings revealed that only 38% of business travellers are satisfied with their company travel policy. What this means for companies is that travellers are likely to book out-of-policy, costing the company more money. What is...