Free up your Business Resources
As one of the most significant spending areas for many businesses, business travel is a vital aspect that needs to be carefully managed with policy and structure. Partnering with a top travel management company frees up business resources and time, while delivering the travel function effectively, safely and to budget.
More than 40 years in the travel business have equipped the Thompsons Travel team with the experience and capability to provide the best possible travel experience. Let our travel experts negotiate your pricing, book with trusted suppliers, monitor visa and Covid-safety requirements, provide for last-minute changes and reorganise itineraries. We can even assist with developing, implementing, and updating your company’s Duty of Care and travel policies to optimise your corporate travel planning.
Enjoy a Seamless Experience
Thompsons Travel’s POPIA-compliant traveller profiles keep track of all your travellers’ information, from their loyalty programmes and documentation status to their hotel, airline seating and meal preferences. We pride ourselves on providing a hands-on seamless and personalised travel experience for your business travellers. In fact, almost every element of the trip can be pre-planned through us, whether it’s applying for Forex, booking ground transport connections, adding extra baggage, checking for visa updates or booking a table at a nearby restaurant. When your business travellers have nothing to worry about other than their business objectives, they can focus on what really matters to the company.
Duty of Care and Traveller Safety
Our priority, like yours, is to safeguard your business travellers against travel risks and keep them safe throughout their journey. Our corporate travel experts have the experience and training to plan for almost every eventuality; but should the unforeseen happen, your business travellers have access to round-the-clock duty of care assistance at the touch of a button. It is also part of Thompsons Travel’s specialist travel risk management service to keep abreast of changing situations on the ground in terms of Covid or any other emergency as it unfolds, so that we can reorganise travel plans “on-the-fly”, if necessary.
The Ins and Outs of Insurance
At Thompsons Travel, we highly recommend purchasing insurance cover when you travel, especially for international trips. Making sure that your insurance covers you for unexpected circumstances – like flight delays, cancellations or lost luggage – as well as any personal medical emergencies, accidents or even emergency evacuations, is vital to ensure your peace of mind when you’re traveling, so that you can focus on what is most important.
The bottom line
Planning is critically important to the success of any business trip, and effective preparation can have a significant impact on your business’ profitability and sustainability initiatives. The enhanced reporting functionality of Thompsons Travel’s travel technology provides tracking, monitoring and analysis of business travel expenditure per company, per cost centre or per individual so that you can make informed decisions about the ROI for every trip. On top of that, the capability of calculating your company’s business travel carbon emissions makes offsetting climate impact an integral part of managing your business travel.
Many organisations rely on travel to further their business interests, so when a logistical slip-up could have catastrophic consequences for your business, it just makes sense to put the management of your business travel in the hands of the experts.
Chat to us today on WhatsApp to start planning your travel management programme.
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