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Unlike other travel apps, TripIt can organize your travel plans no matter where you book. Simply forward your confirmation emails to [email protected] and in a matter of seconds, TripIt will create a comprehensive itinerary for every trip.

“I’m on the road 100 days a year and TripIt is my go-to-app. It’s such a powerful tool in the hands of a traveler. There’s simply nothing like it on the planet.”

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Need a reminder when it's time to leave for the airport? Not sure where to eat in the airport or near your hotel? TripIt has you covered.

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Planning a trip to but need help building the itinerary ? Not sure where to go and feeling overwhelmed by the possibilities? Organizing a last-minute getaway and don’t have time to arrange the details?

Let a local expert help. I offer first-hand recommendations for where to go, what to do, where to stay, where to eat, and how to get around.

From day trips to vacations and holidays, I offer travel planning services to help you get the most out of your trip. I can help you plan your trip to anywhere around the globe .

Whether you’re going on a honeymoon, anniversary trip, family vacation, getaway with friends, solo adventure, or any other type of trip, I can work with you to plan a great escape.

No matter if you’re traveling to the UK or somewhere else in the world, you’ll have the advantage of my local knowledge and global expertise.

What You Get

I can help you with any and all elements of your trip, including finding the best places to stay, most efficient transport, and top unique experiences.

Whether you need help with one thing or everything, I’m flexible in providing assistance where you need it.

My travel planning services can include:

– Consultation to discuss your goals and interests

– Accommodation suggestions tailored to your budget and preferences

– Sightseeing and restaurant recommendations tailored to your interests and tastes

– Flight booking advice for the best routes and top frequent flier mile redemptions

– Car rental options for your itinerary

– Train and ferry and other regional transport booking advice

– Optimization based on your frequent traveler memberships

– Custom travel itinerary with tailored recommendations and detailed maps

You can also arrange any of the above yourself and let me do the rest. See a Sample Itinerary for more detail.

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What can I do for you that you can’t do for yourself? Nothing. You can book your trip on your own.

But you won’t always get the most out of your trip, see the top sights, eat at the best restaurants, visit the latest exhibitions, or travel in the most efficient way.

If you work with me, you’ll leverage my local knowledge to make sure your trip is the best it can be.

I can also save you time . You might spend hours finding the best route from London to Edinburgh, but I know it from years of firsthand experience.

Enjoy your trip and let me worry about the details . Learn more about my travel planning services and how you can benefit from them here .

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I don’t offer a booking service. I will do the research for you, but you are responsible for purchasing the travel yourself.

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Pricing depends on the number of destinations and the number of items on your itinerary that you would like me to help you plan.

For additional information and a free quote for my travel planning services, please contact me at lady [at] aladyinlondon [dot] com .

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10 Best Travel Management Software for Planning Trips in 2024

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May 15, 2024

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The global corporate travel management industry is growing faster than ever, with business travel spending expected to reach $1.4 trillion this year! The use of technology in the industry is also expected to continue rising as new and innovative travel management software takes the helm in managing business travel logistics, trip planning, and expense management. 

Effective corporate travel management solutions can simplify booking processes, streamline itinerary planning, and make planning trips easier than ever. 

In this article, we will explore the 10 best travel management tools with their features, limitations, pricing, and ratings. 

What Should You Look for in Travel Management Software?

3. sap concur, 9. rocketrip, 10. packpoint.

Companies invest in travel management tools to simplify their corporate travel processes. Here are the features you should look for while selecting one for your needs:

• Easy booking : The travel management booking software should work seamlessly and give you easy access to the best accommodations, flights, and more 
• Easy to use : An intuitive user interface will ensure that your team is able to use the tool easily and save time
• Expense management solution : The best travel management tools also function well as expense management software. This way, you get everything in one place without having to switch software constantly
• Integration : The ability to integrate your corporate travel management software with your daily enterprise software will allow effortless data sharing
• Budget-friendly : Ensure the software meets your budget and helps you save costs. Look for ones that have a transparent pricing policy with zero hidden costs
• Reporting : Advanced reporting capabilities help you find areas with the most spending and curb unnecessary costs 
• User support : User support can make or break your experience. Therefore, ensure your software offers helpful support at all times

10 Best Travel Management Software to Use in 2024 

The best business travel management software is one that meets all your needs. Let’s look at some options: 

As an all-in-one project scheduling , productivity, and planning tool, ClickUp is at the top of our list for the best business travel management software in 2024. You can use ClickUp Docs to create and share itineraries, plan a travel budget, chalk out travel plans, etc.

Elevate your travel planning game with ClickUp’s Map View , designed to bring your itinerary to life visually. This innovative tool allows you to organize your trips geographically and efficiently plan your adventures with a simple click-and-drag interface.

From hotel information to flight details, all your travel details will be available in an easy-to-understand format. Further, you can add nested pages in one Doc to ensure all your travel plans are in the same place. You can also use it as a free schedule maker to avoid last-minute work stress.

If making corporate travel plans is not your forte, don’t worry because ClickUp AI will do it for you! From generating ideas to creating customized travel outlines, it can help you save time and money.

ClickUp also offers several itinerary templates accessible at any time and day, including the excellent ClickUp Travel Planner template, which enables you to make all your travel arrangements and manage corporate travel expenses in one place. 

ClickUp best features

• Collaborate on travel plans, keep all the information organized and accessible, protect your plans with privacy controls, and enhance the overall travel experience with ClickUp Docs
• Generate automatic plans and outlines in a matter of seconds with ClickUp AI and access them anywhere
• Use itinerary templates like ClickUp’s Business Travel Itinerary and travel planner templates to mark and highlight your business travel plans easily. If you are planning a bleisure (business + leisure) trip, you can use ClickUp’s Vacation Planning template for organizing all the relevant details in one place
• Use ClickUp as your daily planner app to plan your day-to-day travel activities, set reminders, and make notes in ClickUp Notepad
• Connect ClickUp with over 1,000 tools such as Slack, YouTube, Google Calendar, Alexa,  Chrome, Zoom, and Google Sheets

ClickUp limitations

• The mobile app lacks some features that are available in the desktop version 
• Some users find it a bit difficult to use in the beginning

ClickUp pricing

• Free forever
• Unlimited : $7/month per user
• Business : $12/month per user
• Enterprise : Contact for pricing
• ClickUp Brain: Available on all paid plans for $5/Workspace member/month

ClickUp ratings and reviews

• G2: 4.7/5 (9,200+ reviews)
• Capterra: 4.7/5 (3,900+ reviews)

With the aim of helping travel professionals save time while providing quality services, Travefy offers a wide range of tools that make business travel convenient. You can add tour information, including accommodations, transportation, and as many details as necessary. 

It supports over 100 supplier integrations and 625+ city guides so that you can make detailed itineraries (with pictures and links!) and save money and time. You can also share travel templates and integrate them with your CRM software. 

Travefy best features

• Create and share itineraries easily with  the drag-and-drop interface
• Make your travel content attractive with a built-in photo library with stunning photos and videos 
• Work efficiently with the 100+ supplier integrations
• Easily access your business trips using the mobile app
• Get automatic flight updates with the live flight database 

Travefy limitations

• Some users have complained about features being difficult to use
• No free version is available 

Travefy pricing

• Monthly : $49 per month
• Quarterly : $44 per month
• Annually : $35 per month
• For more than 25 users, contact Travefy for pricing

*You can add additional users at $25 per month per user.

Travefy ratings and reviews

• G2: 4.5/5 (20+ reviews)
• Capterra: 4.6/5 (15 reviews)

SAP Concur is an all-in-one travel and expense management software. It offers integrated solutions for business travel, expense reporting, and invoice management, thus making it easy to plan and access trip information. 

Further, it also works as travel management booking software, as you can book accommodations, car rentals, flights, and more. You can connect travelers and itineraries across multiple channels to enhance the overall experience. 

SAP Concur best features

• Create, submit, and approve expense reports from anywhere and through any device
• Connect SAP Concur to your CRM, HR, and finance solutions for seamless corporate travel. You can also integrate with apps like Uber, TripIt, American Airlines, and more
• Gain complete control over your business travel by ensuring corporate travel policies compliance and duty of care
• Use the open API to create custom features and integrations for your specific needs

SAP Concur limitations

• Some users have complained about the customer service
• Some reviews also found it difficult to use in the beginning

SAP Concur pricing

• Contact for pricing

SAP Concur ratings and reviews

• G2: 4.0/5 (5,900+ reviews)
• Capterra: 4.3/5 (2000+ reviews)

Packed with features that make planning and traveling easier than ever, TripIt is a stellar app for creating business travel itineraries. All you have to do is share your booking confirmation emails with TripIt’s official email, and it will create a comprehensive itinerary.

Wondering what else it can do? It also allows you to add the trip details directly to your calendar (whichever calendar you use) and access them from anywhere at any time.

If you choose TripIt Pro, you can access features like adding PDFs and photos, check-in reminders, a fare tracker, flight status, baggage claim information, and more.

TripIt best features

• Create a comprehensive itinerary from your confirmation emails in just seconds
• Get reminders for check-in, when to leave, and flight status to stay on track with your time management goals (only on TripIt Pro)
• Get detailed information about terminals and gates, connecting flights, baggage claim, alternate flight options, and better seat availability (only on TripIt Pro)
• Use the app to get your business travel plan at the tip of your fingers

TripIt limitations

• Some users have complained about the outdated interface
• Most features are only available on TripIt Pro
• Doesn’t offer expense reporting

TripIt pricing

• TripIt Free
• TripIt Pro : $49 per year 

TripIt ratings and reviews

• G2: 4.7/5 (40+ reviews)
• Capterra: Unavailable

Happay is a comprehensive corporate travel and expense management solution. Apart from offering advanced features, it also provides advanced AI-powered processes that ensure you have complete control over every aspect of your plan. 

The software has a self-booking tool with multiple suppliers, allowing you to book your preferred hotels, flights, and cabs. You can also plan, capture, report, approve, and reconcile expenses, making expense reporting easy and effective. Web and mobile OCR also enhance expense capture capabilities. 

Moreover, you can use the tool to improve travel policy compliance and increase savings.

Happay best features

• Integrate Happay with software like Oracle, Tally, Microsoft, Uber, RuPay, Visa, and more
• Get detailed reports about top spenders, policy violators, business travelers, time taken for approvals, flights, and hotels for better expense management 
• Connect with multiple suppliers for accommodations and travel on a single platform
• Ensure 100% policy compliance
• Get reminders when the lowest fare is available for your preferred accommodations and flights 
• Use the fare freeze option to reserve a ticket price. This comes in handy when there is a delay in manager approval
• Enjoy tax compliance with airlines, ensuring complete visibility of business travel expenses

Happay limitations

• Some users have complained about slow customer support
• The product application is not completely glitch-free

Happay pricing

Happay ratings and reviews.

• G2: 4.5/5 (300+ reviews)
• Capterra: 4.6/5 (800+ reviews)

Deem offers an effortless and intuitive travel experience with its intelligent features. Your employees can book, edit, and modify their plans from anywhere and using any device. It also ensures their safety (along with your duty of care) with the built-in Safety Check option during booking.  

What makes Deem unique, however, is that it provides carbon emission ratings to help you assess your trip’s environmental impact. So you can make greener and better choices on future trips. 

Deem best features

• Book your travel plans using personalized support provided by Deem
• Get quick, real-time insights into your spending and user engagement 
• Find the most suitable accommodations and flights using the wide range of vendors available on the app. You can also compare fare tiers in a single view
• Integrate it with platforms like Workday, Chrome River, and more
• Get support  in 14 languages 

Deem limitations

• Some users complained about slow loading 
• Some features are not available on the mobile app
• Some users have complained about a lack of flexibility in search results

Deem pricing

Deem ratings and reviews.

• G2: 4.5/5 (200+ reviews)
• Capterra: 4.4/5 (25 reviews)

Rydoo is primarily an expense management solution that allows employees to create, submit, and approve expenses efficiently. You can capture all the expenses on the Rydoo app, and it will also automatically match the transactions via corporate cards against their expenses.

Further, managers can easily automate the approval process for low-risk expenses to speed up approvals. With Rydoo, you can control employee expenses, ensure policy compliance, and increase efficiency. 

Rydoo best features

• Customize your travel policies and automate expense approval, reporting, and reconciliation
• Scan your receipts with the Rydoo app, and it will automatically prepare your expenses for submission, thus eliminating the need for manual data entry
• Get visibility into trips with mileage entries created through Google’s integrated map
• Integrate Rydoo with over 35 tools, including your HR, ERP, and accounting software

Rydoo limitations

• Some users have experienced technical glitches with receipt loading, expense reporting, and deletion
• Some have complained about scanning taking a lot of time

Rydoo pricing

• Essentials: $12 per user per month 
• Pro: $14 per user per month 
• Business: Contact for pricing
• Enterprise: Contact for pricing

Rydoo ratings and reviews

• G2: 4.4/5 (700+ reviews)
• Capterra: 4.4/5 (190+ reviews)

Formerly known as TripActions, Navan is an integrated business travel and expense management solution. It is well-known for maximizing efficiency while minimizing costs with discounted rates and policy controls.

Navan offers AI tools , including Ava (their AI travel agent ), for 24/7 support. The online booking process is seamless, with a wide inventory and personalized results. And that’s not all! It also provides advanced expense reporting capabilities with data insights.

Navan best features

• Get better control over spending with dynamic policies, automated expense reporting, and real-time insights
• Book group travel for up to 50 employees at a time
• Earn loyalty points and rewards for making cost-effective choices
• Track and reduce your organization’s carbon emissions with robust sustainability tools 
• Consult with travel experts and a dedicated team to create unique and tailored travel programs

Navan limitations

• Some users found it more expensive than other options

Navan pricing

Navan ratings and reviews.

• G2: 4.7/5 (7,500+ reviews)
• Capterra: 4.6/5 (170+ reviews)

With the aim of empowering employees and ensuring cost savings, Rocketrip offers transparent performance data and rewards for reducing spending. The platform provides a custom price-to-beat algorithm based on 12 months of your historical data, travel policies, negotiated rates, preferred suppliers, and consultation with your administrators. 

It also integrates traveler employees’ data with your online booking tool, providing custom insights into spending and costs. 

Rocketrip best features

• Increase cost savings with rewards for reducing spending by choosing cheaper flights, downgrading to Economy class, etc. .
• Get detailed real-time expense reports by department, route, and employees, allowing your finance teams to make suitable decisions
• Get complete visibility into current trips and employees’ locations at all times
• Receive travel alerts for risks and track spending above policy

Rocketrip limitations

• The user interface is a little clunky
• The site often crashes and has a slow load time

Rocketrip pricing

Rocketrip ratings and reviews.

• G2: 4.3/5 (10 reviews)

PackPoint is primarily a packing list organizer that helps you decide what goes into your luggage, ensuring you don’t forget any essential items. It bases its suggestions on the length of your trip and details of your travel destination, including its weather and planned activities. 

With PackPoint Premium, you can access many more features, like connecting with TripIt, sharing your packing list, and customizing the app. 

PackPoint best features

• The app is easy to use. All you have to do is add your trip details and select your activities, and you’ll get the packing list ready
• You can integrate PackPoint with TripIt using PackPoint Pro

PackPoint limitations

• Limited features 

PackPoint pricing

• Premium: $2.99

PackPoint ratings and reviews

• G2: Unavailable

Make Travel Planning Easy with Travel Management Tools

A robust travel and expense management solution helps companies save time and money, improve their corporate travel experience, and reduce travel planning stress. Therefore, research your options, take a free trial, and decide whether the software matches your needs. 

With ClickUp, you can use AI to create itineraries, Docs to plan trips, the best templates for travel planning, itineraries, and time logs to ensure your team is on the same page regarding the latest trip plans. Try ClickUp for free today!

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Overwhelmed by trip planning? Leave it to our travel experts so you stress less and get back to daydreaming about your trip of a lifetime! 

THREE STEPS TO TRAVEL PLANNING

Follow three simple steps to get started with our vacation planning services:

STEP 1 SHARE YOUR PREFERENCES!

Fill out our client intake form to tell us about your trip.

STEP 2 TALK WITH A TRAVEL PLANNER

Schedule a 30-minute discovery call — requires a US$50 nonrefundable fee.

STEP 3 GET YOUR CUSTOM ITINERARY

We’ll then make bookings and craft your customized itinerary in our travel app.

DESTINATIONS WHERE WE SPECIALIZE

We provide full service custom travel services in the places where we are destination experts: California, Hawai’i, Mexico, Italy, France, Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Switzerland . However, we can help with travel bookings (i.e. hotels and ground transportation) in almost any place around the globe. 

TRAVEL PLANNING SERVICES TIERS

Our travel company is about customization, so our services are tailored to meet each traveler’s needs. Whether you're planning a family vacation, a honeymoon, a private group trip, a road trip, or luxury travel, your travel planner will help make it happen. We have three primary services we provide — all of which begin by booking a Discovery Call :

JUST HOTEL BOOKINGS Like a traditional travel agent, we can help even if all you need are hotels or transportation booked.

CUSTOM ITINERARY PLANNING Our most popular service is a custom vacation planning service where you get a 1-on-1 travel advisor, help with your trip bookings, and a custom-built app.

HOURLY CONSULTATION If you just need a bit of expert advice, we can also provide hourly travel consulting.

MOST POPULAR = FULL-SERVICE ITINERARY PLANNING

Our full-service itinerary planning is our customer’s favorite service ! Our FULL-SERVICE ITINERARY PLANNING tier starts at US$1880, but quotes are provided after the discovery call. Here’s what you’ll get:

Personal Travel Planner: You’ll be paired with a destination expert working one-on-one to plan your trip.

Custom Travel Itinerary: We’ll craft a personal travel plan to match your interests.

Custom-Built App: Our clients' favorite feature is that you’ll get a personalized app that includes your day-by-day itinerary, confirmations, and a curated map.

Activity & Restaurant Bookings: Advice on what to do and where to eat and help booking it all.

Help Arranging Hotels & Transportation: Curated ideas of where to stay and help booking lodging, trains, car rentals, and private drivers. FYI, we use a third-party partner to book flights, which may require an additional fee.

Expert Recommendations: Access our hard-earned tips from years of on-the-ground research in the destination.

Local Guides: Pairing with professional, highly-qualified local experts and guides.

Travel Tips & FAQs: Our glossary of FAQs and travel tips for the destination.

HERE WHAT OUR CLIENTS HAVE TO SAY:

“ I am so very happy that I took advantage of the travel therapy call that I had with Aida and Kristen to help me with my upcoming trip to Sicily. It was very helpful to fill out the questionnaire ahead of time so they had an idea of my traveling style. I look forward to booking a tour with Salt and Wind in the future! I highly recommend this company. ”

QUESTIONS ABOUT TRAVEL PLANNING SERVICES

What experience does Salt & Wind Travel have?

We have over a decade of travel experience as a trip planner company in particular destinations — California, France, Hawai’i, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland. Our team members have extensive experience in the travel and hospitality space and specialize in the destinations where we work. That means you can access our years of experience and insider knowledge and that we’ve vetted our partners so you can enjoy your trip!

What Makes Salt & Wind Travel Different?

While many a travel advisor will send you a cookie-cutter itinerary, our services are highly customized. We have spent years doing on-the-ground research and fostering connections to local experts and quality tour operators. 

Not only do we first focus on traveling around local food and wine, but we also advocate slow travel and sustainable travel. As a boutique travel agency, we always aim to support other local small businesses as much as possible. 

Where does Salt & Wind Travel provide vacation planning services?

We help travel lovers explore the places we know best: California, Hawai’i, Mexico, Italy, France, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland. Our most common services are help planning corporate retreats, destination weddings, honeymoons, family trips, bachelorette parties, and friends' trip planning. 

Since everything is custom, we will help you plan your trip as much or as little as you need. We've got you if you've booked your flights and lodging but need help with activities and restaurants. Or, if you need help with every detail—from deciding which island to visit in Hawaii or where to stay on the Amalfi Coast to where to head on a California road trip to the state's national parks—we can handle it all. 

When do you charge a fee?

Sometimes, with the “Just Hotel Bookings” service, where we only help book your hotels, we do not need to charge a fee . However, depending on the amount of help you need, we may need to charge a nominal fee.

The most popular service tier (aka “Full Service”) requires much attention, so we charge for our team’s time and expertise. Look above for an idea of where each tier’s pricing starts.

Each service starts with a 30-minute US$50 discovery call , after which we provide custom quotes based on the scope of services. The purpose of the call is to get to know your needs so we can best help you. After learning about your dream trip, we’ll provide some advice like when it’s best to travel there, how long your trip should be, and the must-know details like how to get around and the ideal trip budget. However, we do not provide exact hotel, restaurant, activity, or itinerary recommendations, as those are part of our travel planning services.

Are you travel agents, travel consultants, or travel advisors?

So, those words are all simply synonyms! Often, a traditional travel agent will only book hotels, while travel planners or advisors will provide full-service itinerary planning (like we do!). But we go by any of those names around here and help with everything.

What are the benefits of using a travel advisor?

If you’re wondering, “Is it worth getting a vacation planner,” the answer is yes! Expert vacation planners and travel advisors have the knowledge and connections to know which hotels, resorts, and tour guides would work best for you and to enhance your trip with one-of-a-kind experiences tailored to your interests that you'd never find on your own. They'll also be there to smooth out problems that might occur along the way.

What is the “Just Hotel Bookings” service?

As it sounds, this is help with your hotel bookings. Tap our travel advisors for their expertise, experience, and efficiency to get perks at hotels you wouldn't otherwise access!

Where can you help me with bookings?

We can provide basic bookings (e.g., hotel and transportation) anywhere worldwide! However, we shine by providing bespoke travel planning via our full-service personalized travel itinerary services in the places where we specialize: California, Hawai’i, Mexico, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, and Switzerland.

Clients have used our “Just Bookings” service for places we have travel experience (but aren’t full destination experts), including Germany, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Costa Rica, South Africa, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Thailand, and Jordan.

What is the “Travel Therapy” service?

Do you know where you want to go but do not know how to plan it all? Enter " Travel Therapy ,” which is our hourly consultation service. You'll book the service by hte hour and talk with an expert travel planner who will provide a suggested trip itinerary and a handful of suggestions for lodging and activities.

What are the full-service custom travel itinerary services?

Most clients opt for custom full-service itinerary planning because it's the surest way to stress less and have your dream trip! You'll get a dedicated trip planner, multiple calls, a custom app, a detailed hourly itinerary, advice, help booking activities, lodging, and restaurants.

How does the custom travel itinerary planning work?

All of our bespoke travel services begin with you booking a 30-minute US$50 discovery call . During this call, we will get to know you and your travel preferences, and we can explain the best service level for your needs. We’ll email you after the call with a custom quote and the services we propose. After that, the planning begins! 

With the “Fast-Tracked Services” and the “Full-Service Itinerary” planning, you will get the whole experience of our travel planner service. You will be assigned a dedicated travel planner who will communicate with you via email or phone until your trip is ready! They will cater to your individual needs and share insider information and travel tips so you have the perfect travel plan. 

For the full suite of services, your dedicated travel planner will send you a custom Google doc or PDF listing tailored to your picks of hotels, activity suggestions, and restaurant recommendations (no tourist traps, we promise!). Then, your custom app is built to be your one-stop shop for having the best trip. You can have peace of mind knowing everything is there, from your confirmations and tickets to basic questions (in our travel glossary) and our proprietary map that includes our picks from our years of destination research. 

Can I do a rush order?

We prefer at least 90 days for the best custom travel planning. However, we can do it in less time for a rush fee. 

How do I get the most out of your services?

Being kind, present, and prepared goes a long way! We will do most of the heavy lifting, but if you can respond promptly, it will help us.

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We create personalized travel itineraries with destinations, routes, and schedules designed especially for you. Leave all the travel planning and execution to our team. Whether you have your own aircraft, are interested in a private charter, or choose to fly commercial, we will make all air and ground arrangements in your preferred style so you can enjoy every moment.

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• We’re adept at handling every complex detail of any trip
• We’ll make all arrangements, from visas to dining reservations
• We can even send an experienced trip leader to ensure everything on-ground goes according to plan

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The 15 best travel management software in 2024

• Great for booking corporate travel
• Tools that are a must for handling the tracking and reporting of expenses 
• Extra tools that help ensure the overall travel experience for you and your team is as smooth as possible

15 Top travel management software to streamline your business trips

Business travel management booking tools, 1. travelperk.

• Extensive travel inventory: find the best travel options for your business, including air travel, rail tickets, car rentals, and more
• Flexible trips : receive an 80% refund for canceled travel when booking with FlexiPerk
• Carbon offsetting : offset your travel’s carbon emissions with TravelPerk’s GreenPerk—managed by our dedicated Sustainability Team
• G2 rating: 4.6 / 5, based on 1,533 reviews
• Capterra rating: 4.8 / 5, based on 402 reviews

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2. flightfox.

• Miles and upgrades: maximize your loyalty benefits with each trip and transaction
• One-click amendments: no more back and forth with hotels or airlines—Flightfox handles all changes and cancellations
• G2 rating: 4 / 5, based on 3 reviews
• Capterra rating: no ratings available

3. Airbnb for Work

• Airbnb experiences: help your team connect with interesting experiences when traveling for business
• Travel dashboard: contact employees while they travel and eliminate expense reports with the Airbnb for Work dashboard
• G2 rating: no ratings available

Top tools for managing travel expenses

• Accounting data: set up cost centers, categories, and VAT in Payhawk
• Digitized bookkeeping: leverage a powerful OCR with machine learning that learns from your input to automate manual data entry
• G2 rating: 4.5 / 5, based on 216 reviews
• Capterra rating: 4.6 / 5, based on 115 reviews

5. Spendesk

• 7-in-1 spend management solution: company cards, expenses, invoices, accounting, approvals, budgets, and spending reports in one simplified stack
• Spending reports: accurate and timely spending reports in a single interface
• G2 rating: 4.7 / 5, based on 3,94 reviews
• Capterra rating: 4.8 / 5, based on 215 reviews

• Branded cards: personalize your company cards with your branding. Top up cards with precise spending allowances for 100% policy compliance
• Receipt collection: instant receipt collection via deep integrations with Gmail, Lyft, or Amazon Business, and easy employee coding via SMS or email
• G2 rating: 4.8 / 5, based on 1,894 reviews
• Capterra rating: 4.9 / 5, based on 178 reviews

• Actionable insights: full transparency and comprehensive spend insights in real-time
• Individual process flows: set up your own approval flows and enforce internal policies, as well as local tax laws and regulations
• G2 rating: 4.5 / 5, based on 4 reviews
• Capterra rating: 4.5 / 5, based on 39 reviews

• Expense approval notifications: get a push notification to give initial approval or reject the employee reimbursement request with a note
• Automatically categorize transactions: set card, merchant, budget, and user rules to categorize transactions
• G2 rating: 4.5 / 5, based on 1,151 reviews
• Capterra rating: 4.7 / 5, based on 409 reviews

9. Expensya

• Secure data: an entirely paperless process that responds perfectly to security and compliance issues
• Self-learning tech: the OCR receipt capture tool learns as you upload more and more receipts to ensure accurate data management
• G2 rating: 4.6 / 5, based on 110 reviews
• Capterra rating: 4.3 / 5, based on 417 reviews

10. Circula

• Employee benefits: strengthen your employer branding with modern and tax-optimized employee benefits—such as a lunch benefit, internet benefit, or relaxation benefit
• G2 rating: 4.5 / 5, based on 448 reviews
• Capterra rating: 4.7 / 5, based on 376 reviews

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11. rocketrip.

• Reporting dashboard: report on real-time savings, booking, and behavioral data alongside customizable spend alerts and traveler safety information
• Dedicated support: get high-quality support from Rocketrip’s support team
• G2 rating: 4.3 / 5, based on 10 reviews
• Capterra rating: no reviews available

• Generate savings: with data-backed price assurance, reshopping, and continuous provider sourcing
• Sync your services: improve productivity by automating workflows and automatically sharing your travel data
• G2 rating: 4.3 / 5, based on 2 reviews

13. CapTrav

• Aggregate travel data: from bookings made through multiple sources, such as travel management companies (TMCs), online travel agents (OTAs), online booking tools, supplier websites, or more

14. PackPoint

• Add trip details: for personalized packing suggestions and lists

15. App in the Air

• Manage trips: get a real-time view into business travelers' booking details
• Set up a travel policy: to ensure business travelers can access key information on the go

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• Free, 24/7 traveler support
• Massive travel inventory
• Automatic travel policy compliance with customizable policies and approval workflows
• Future-ready tool that will scale and adapt to your business
• Consolidated invoicing
• Travel spend reporting

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The Top 10 Corporate Travel Management Solutions

Compare corporate travel management solutions that facilitate travel booking, expense tracking, and policy compliance features to optimize and streamline business travel..

• 1. Amex GBT Egencia
• 2. Coupa Travel
• 3. Emburse Certify Corporate Travel Management
• 6. Routespring Travel Management
• 7. SAP Concur Travel
• 8. TravelBank
• 9. TravelPerk
• 10. Webexpenses Corporate Travel Management

Corporate Travel Management solutions help finance teams, as well as travelling employees, to handle business travel requirements more easily. These platforms manage the travel experience end-to-end, with tools for planning and booking travel arrangements, including hotels, flights, and car rentals, along with budgeting, spend tracking, and expense management functionality. The goal of these solutions is to alleviate the stress of managing corporate travel and save companies both time and money.

These platforms are usually offered as a centralized portal, allowing you to consolidate all information in a single location. Key features of these solutions include travel planning, itinerary management, expenses management, policy controls for finance teams, and comprehensive audits. In addition, these tools provide reporting and analytics capabilities that enable organizations to understand travel spend, identify trends, and make informed decisions for future savings. From the travelling employee’s perspective, the best solutions will offer a mobile app, enabling easy scheduling, automated expense reporting, and a clear travel itinerary. 

There are a number of corporate travel management solutions available on the market, each offering different ways to take the hassle out of business travel. From startup-friendly offerings with basic features to comprehensive platforms for large enterprises, the market varies widely. This guide will identify the best corporate travel management solutions for a range of use cases. In each instance, we’ll assess their features, integration capabilities and ease of use.

Egencia, a division of American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT), offers a comprehensive global travel management platform that is used by over two million travelers worldwide, in over 9000 companies, across 60+ countries.

Egencia streamlines corporate travel management by providing a user-friendly interface equipped with up-to-date travel information, making modifications, bookings, and a simplified employee travel approval process. The platform easily manages expenses, itineraries, and travel policies, ensuring optimal ease for organizations of varying sizes.

One of the key features of Egencia is its policy compliance tool. This feature allows for the creation of pre-approved travel options, thereby simplifying the approval process and promoting company-wide compliance. The platform is routinely updated with comprehensive reporting and analytics for consistent policy performance checks. Egencia also offers robust risk management tools, partnering with top security providers to ensure traveler safety. Features like “Traveler Tracker” and “Incident Awareness” keep users updated about security risks, helping them make informed choices.

Egencia also simplifies expense management by offering automated expense reporting. Egencia’s Open Sync and Open Connect features allow for seamless integration with a variety of expense management providers or simple spreadsheet applications. The platform provides an intuitive, user-friendly experience, guiding travelers to make in-policy bookings while allowing for adaptability in higher risk scenarios.

Coupa Travel is a business travel management platform that is designed to optimize and simplify the process of handling travel expenses. This solution enables finance teams to control costs, while providing a streamlined experience for employees to arrange their corporate travel.

Coupa Travel’s integrated system reduces organizational risk by eliminating silos and automating manual tasks, capturing all travel expenses. It also facilitates AI powered smart decision-making for your travel program that can lead to cost savings and increased employee satisfaction.

A key feature is personalized trip itineraries. With inputs regarding locations and timings from travelers themselves, Coupa creates suitable travel schedules, whilst taking company policies into account. A rules-based engine allows travelers to access travel information and links to relevant resources. Coupa Travel also assists in expenses and purchasing. With the support of Community.ai, Travel Insights provides a comprehensive view of an organization’s travel expenditure and points out saving opportunities.

Coupa Travel also guarantees the highest level of support for travelers, having partnered with travel management company Travel Leaders Corporate. The platform also offers immediate access to savings on various airlines, hotels, and other travel services via Coupa Advantage. Given its mobile-friendly design, employees can manage all their travel arrangements from any device with ease.

Emburse Certify is a corporate travel booking software designed to drive policy compliance and simplify the travel process for employees. It offers a user-friendly online booking platform that allows business travelers to book from anywhere, while remaining compliant with company policies. The platform is designed to help businesses maximize savings and the return on investment from their corporate travel.

Emburse Certify Travel empowers employees to manage their own travel with its robust online booking tool, ensuring spend remains within set limits. It features automated policy compliance, pre-trip approvals, integration with established travel management companies, phone, chat and email support, corporate fares for air, rail, hotel and car rental and seamless expense management integration. It also offers flexible reporting capabilities for identifying trends in travel and expenses and negotiating better rates.

Emburse Certify Travel’s cloud-based software is designed for ease of travel booking and tracking for employees, while providing insights into travel spending for employers. It integrates with travel and expense management software for seamless operation. With its online booking, policy compliance management, and workflow control, corporate travel management is streamlined.

The software is part of the broader Emburse ecosystem, which includes features such as Emburse Cards, Emburse Spend, and Emburse Go. Additionally, Emburse Certify Expense application provides deep visibility into travel and expense data, assisting in policy compliance and rapid reimbursements. Emburse Certify Payments allows for rapid global employee expense reimbursements and vendor payments.

Itilite is a corporate travel management software aimed at both simplifying corporate travel bookings and helping companies achieve financial savings. The platform provides a one-stop solution for companies to book flights, hotels, and car rentals. This also includes round-the-clock live agent support via call, chat, and email, ensuring no traveler is left unsupported.

Itilite’s platform includes robust expense management tools, such as automated audits, policy checks, digital receipts, and an expedited process of reimbursement. This consolidated travel management platform supports corporate travel, expense management, and corporate cards in a single, comprehensive system.

Itilite integrates with a wide range of enterprise systems, including HRMS, accounting solutions, SSO systems, and CRM systems The Itilite corporation travel management solution includes real-time access to data reports and an inbuilt corporate card solution, with no out-of-pocket expenses for employees. This results in a streamlined solution for corporate payments.

Navan is a comprehensive business travel and expense management solution designed to enhance efficiency, control costs, and increase visibility. The platform simplifies business travel, from booking to managing costs and expenses. It integrates all parts of the process within a user-friendly interface, offering employees the flexibility to handle travel arrangements, while enabling companies to maintain full control over their corporate travel program.

This solution provides enterprise-level automation and exclusive rates to streamline bookings and expense management. Navan’s core offering includes a platform for easy online travel bookings with 24/7 support, personalized travel management, and access to a range of travel services. With adaptive spending policies, live data reporting, and sustainability monitoring, Navan aims to fulfill the unique needs of all stakeholders in the business travel process.

For managing expenses, the Navan platform offers corporate cards to simplify payments and automate expense reports. Spending policies can be incorporated into these corporate cards, helping businesses deter out-of-policy expenditures. The platform also allows for swift global reimbursements and provides real-time reporting to make data-driven decisions. Moreover, Navan offers a unique reward program to incentivize employees, making it a popular choice for businesses of various sizes worldwide.

Routespring is a travel management software designed to automate various corporate travel processes. The software enables teams to manage group bookings, synchronize schedules, and generate optimized travel itineraries that align with company policies. Routespring automates most travel management workflows and integrate travel details with well-known business tools and calendar apps.

Routespring ensures visibility in travel policy compliance through its automated in-app approval process. This feature enables custom creation of different policy controls and approval workflows to cater to the various needs of different groups. The software also offers a comprehensive inventory, providing instant access to numerous full-service and low-cost carriers, as well as accommodation properties globally and ground transportation in over 35,000 locations.

Routespring facilitates the handling of travel finances by providing centralized payments for all travels, reducing administrative overhead in reconciliation. The software offers customizable tags for categorization of expenses and integrates seamlessly with existing financial systems. The platform also automates expense tracking, ensuring policy compliance and simplifying audits.

The platform comes with a user-friendly mobile app that gives travelers easy access to their travel plans and destination details. The app also allows travelers to submit travel requests and receive instant confirmations once approved, while retaining their preferences for brands and loyalty programs. Routespring offers its service without extra charges for last-minute requests and aims to eliminate the need for reimbursement processes, allowing employees to manage their own travel and access 24/7 support.

SAP Concur Travel allows employees to manage their own travel bookings in accordance to company expense policies. SAP Concur Travel simplifies the travel booking process, drives efficiency, and promotes policy compliance, while offering a user-friendly mobile application.

SAP Concur Travel offers a range of benefits as a standalone solution and provides a concrete return on investment with its industry-leading features. When integrated with Concur Expense, the platform provides a comprehensive spending solution.

This combined system offers a consolidated view of spending, auto-populated travel bookings in expense reports, and expedited employee reimbursement. SAP Concur Travel is flexible, with top-comprehensive security measures.

The SAP Concur Travel platform offers a modern user interface across platforms and devices. It also grants customers access to a comprehensive network of travel suppliers and puts them in touch with a global community for deeper insight, practical tips, and user-centric discussions.

TravelBank is a comprehensive platform designed for optimizing business travel expenses. It provides end-to-end capabilities ranging from round-the-clock travel assistance to integrated expense tracking. This platform aims to control, regulate, and provide real-time visibility into business travel spend, thus maximizing work productivity and reducing errors.

Key functionalities of TravelBank include the ability to sync with any card to reconcile transactions and create virtual cards. By streamlining the process of expense management, it enables savings in employee time, whilst reducing efforts spent on capturing and processing expenses. It also offers a user-friendly dashboard delivering clear insights into spend, leakage, and trends. This facilitates precise budget management and smarter decision-making based on fully customizable reporting.

TravelBank allows employees to book all travel services in one place. With TravelBank, bookings are automatically included in an employee’s expense report, simplifying expense tracking during trips. Additionally, the platform incentivizes cost-saving behavior by rewarding employees when they underspend their budget. With seamless integration, TravelBank is compatible with popular ERPs, HR, and banking software, catering to the already established systems within your organization.

TravelPerk is a comprehensive business travel tool designed to simplify and optimize corporate travel management. Its capabilities range from seamless booking to efficient travel management. With its FlexiPerk feature, the company provides flexibility through refundable booking services where users can cancel any booking anytime and get 80% of the cost back.

TravelPerk’s key features include its 24/7 customer support, GreenPerk for sustainable travel options, and efficient integrations with numerous apps. The all-in-one solution covers the entire travel process from booking to expensing, offering robust features for convenient team management of travel programs.

TravelPerk offers built-in policies for ensuring travel compliance. Its system allows businesses to establish and adjust their travel policies, enabling employees to plan travel itineraries whilst adhering to policy guidelines. Its transparent management system caters to the needs of a travel manager by ensuring visibility and real-time traveler data. Additionally, TravelPerk offers a centralized invoicing system and negotiated rates, further aiding in the optimization of corporate travel costs.

TravelPerk’s capabilities extend further to manage travel expenses and provide real-time data on projects, teams, date, and location. It also offers a real-time view of a company’s carbon footprint and solutions for easy VAT recovery.

Webexpenses provides expense management, invoice processing, and payments services designed to streamline processes and minimize errors in corporate travel booking. The platform is adaptable and scalable, catering to businesses of all sizes across various sectors. Its product suite includes a mobile app that provides simplified expense management for travelers and allows for quicker reimbursements, typically within a day.

Webexpenses offers a Travel Expense Management and Reimbursement platform that makes the process of submitting, approving, and reporting business expenses easier. Features include user-friendly mileage reimbursement tools, intelligent receipt matching that automatically aligns receipts with their corresponding credit card purchases, and an automated petty cash manager. To ensure company data security, the application encrypts sensitive information to the highest security standards via Amazon Web Services.

A central feature of this platform is the policy compliance system. Teams can build specific company expense policies into the expense management platform, making it easier for users to adhere to guidelines. The system blocks out-of-policy claims using proactive policy enforcement and automated alerts. The software integrates with over 50 accounting systems, enhancing company budget and expenditure control.

The Webexpenses mobile app helps manage expenses on the go by allowing users to snap a picture of their receipt and swiftly generate a claim in seconds. The platform also allows admins to easily review, approve, reject, and track expense reports.

Everything You Need To Know About Corporate Travel Management Solutions (FAQs)

What are corporate travel management solutions.

Corporate Travel Management solutions are tools that enable finance teams to manage enterprise traveling. Travelling for work can be stressful for employees, who must manage their budgets, work, and travel itinerary. Work travel can also be a stress for finance teams, who must be able to reconcile expenses, and manage travel policies for all travelling employees.

Corporate travel management solutions aim to reduce this stress, with a set of features to improve the travel experience for employees and give finance teams visibility over enterprise travel expenses. This includes managing expenses, logistics, travel reports, and invoices. These tools can help teams to better manage budgets and control costs, resulting in increased employee confidence that when they travel it will be easy to submit and manage expenses.

How Do Corporate Travel Management Solutions work?

Corporate Travel Management solutions enable finance teams to control travel budgets and help reduce stress for travelling employees. This is delivered through a range of features including itineraries that cover flight details, travel times, and cost breakdowns, budgeting features, spending allowance limits, and live chat. Some solutions will offer partnerships with travel forms to recommend airlines, hotels, and rideshare providers.

Corporate Travel Management software is typically delivered via a web-based dashboard for finance teams to manage and track expenses, reports, audits, and manage policies. End users can access the service on a mobile app to view their own personal itineraries, submit expenses, and track budgets. Top solutions will also integrate with other HRMS and accounting tools, such as Netsuite, SAP, Oracle, Quickbooks, or Workday.

What Features Should You Look For In Corporate Travel Management Solutions?

When selecting a corporate travel management solution, Expert Insights recommends considering the following key features:

• Travel Planning Features: Flight booking, car rentals, hotel booking, and taxi booking in one platform for employees
• Itinerary Management: Itinerary planning, timetables, costs, and travel plans should be clearly laid out and visible to all parties
• Expenses Management: Employees should be able to easily track and manage expenses in real time with spending limits where required
• Budget Management: Budgeting controls and audits, with clear limits set for employees and clear tracking of spend
• Policy and Compliance: Automated policy compliance workflows, with approvals for travel and spend
• Support: Phone, chat, and email support
• Integrations: Integrations with other HR platforms, accounting tools, and CRM solutions

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The Top 8 Business Travel Management Tools

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Business travel management involves planning, booking, and managing all aspects of corporate travel, including flights, accommodations, ground transportation, and expenses.
• Corporate travel management software streamlines business travel processes by automating tasks such as booking flights, tracking expenses, and providing insights into travel spending patterns.

Effective business travel management can lead to cost savings, increased employee satisfaction, and improved productivity.

• The right travel management solution can help ensure compliance with company policies, provide valuable insights into travel spending, and streamline the entire travel process.

Business travel can be both exciting and exhausting. Between booking flights, finding accommodations, and managing expenses, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. But fear not, weary traveler!

The right business travel management tools can save you time, money, and countless headaches.

In this article, we’ll explore the top 10 tools every business traveler should have in their arsenal and answer some common questions about business travel management.

What Is Business Travel Management?

Business travel management refers to planning, booking, and managing all aspects of corporate travel. This includes arranging flights, accommodations, ground transportation, and managing expenses related to business trips.

A well-managed business travel program ensures employees have a seamless travel experience while controlling costs.

How Do You Manage a Company’s Travel?

Managing company travel involves setting clear travel policies, selecting preferred vendors, implementing a centralized booking system, and using a robust expense management tool.

Regularly reviewing and analyzing travel data can also help identify areas for improvement and cost savings.

This brings us to the question, should you allow your employees to handle their own travel arrangements?

Allowing employees to handle their own corporate travel booking can have several advantages:

Flexibility and Autonomy

Allowing employees to book their own business travel gives them the flexibility and autonomy to choose travel arrangements that suit their preferences and needs. This can lead to higher employee satisfaction and a sense of ownership over their travel plans.

Time and Cost Efficiency

Employees may better understand their travel requirements and preferences, which can result in quicker decision-making and efficient bookings. Allowing employees to take charge of their travel arrangements reduces the burden on travel managers or administrative staff, freeing them up to focus on other important tasks.

Cost Control

When employees are responsible for booking their own travel, they tend to be more mindful of costs. They can search for the best deals, compare prices, and choose options aligned with budget guidelines. This level of cost-consciousness can contribute to overall travel cost savings for the company.

Empowerment and Trust

Allowing employees to book their own business travel demonstrates trust and empowers them to make decisions in line with company policies. It promotes a sense of responsibility and accountability, fostering a positive work environment.

Personalized Preferences

Employees may have specific preferences regarding travel arrangements, such as seat preferences, hotel amenities, or airline loyalty programs. Allowing them to book their own travel enables them to customize their travel experience and may contribute to their overall comfort and productivity during business trips.

However, it is essential to establish clear guidelines and policies to ensure travel policy compliance and manage potential risks.

Travel Policy

Have a well-defined travel and expense policy that outlines guidelines for bookings, preferred vendors, budget limits, and reimbursement procedures.

Communicate the policy clearly to employees to ensure they understand the expectations and limitations. It should clearly outline what expenses are reimbursable, whether or not they can use their personal credit card or will be required to use a company card, etc.

Approval Process

Implement an approval process to ensure that travel bookings meet company requirements and align with the travel policy.

This allows managers to review and authorize travel requests, ensuring consistency and control over travel arrangements.

Expense Reporting

Set up a standardized expense reporting process to ensure accurate and timely expense reimbursements .

Provide employees with clear instructions on submitting expense claims and the necessary supporting documentation. You should also consider introducing a dedicated app for travel and expense management to automate expense management .

Communication and Support

Maintain open lines of communication with employees to address any questions or concerns they may have about booking their own travel.

Offer support and assistance when needed, such as providing resources for finding the best deals or offering guidance on travel-related matters.

What Is Corporate Travel Management Software?

Corporate travel management software is designed to streamline and automate various aspects of business travel management.

These tools can help book flights and accommodations, track expenses, and provide insights into travel spending patterns.

They can also integrate with other systems, such as accounting or HR software, for seamless data transfer and workflow management.

What Is the Difference Between Business Travel and Leisure Travel?

Business travel refers to trips taken for work-related purposes, such as attending meetings, conferences, or visiting clients.

On the other hand, leisure travel is taken for personal enjoyment and relaxation.

While both types of travel involve similar activities (booking flights, accommodations, etc.), business travel typically has additional requirements, such as expense tracking and adherence to corporate travel program policies.

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to the best travel management software. Consider how often people travel, the types of travel, etc., when making your choice.

What Are the Benefits of Business Travel Management?

By streamlining the booking process, enforcing travel policies, and automating expense reporting, companies can reduce travel-related stress for employees and ensure they have a positive travel experience.

How Do You Find a Corporate Travel Management App?

When searching for a corporate travel management app, consider factors such as ease of use, integration capabilities, customization options, pricing, and customer support.

Researching online reviews and seeking recommendations from colleagues or industry peers can also help identify the best app for your needs.

Additionally, many corporate travel management apps offer free trials that can provide an opportunity to explore the features and determine if it is a good fit.

Once you’ve identified a travel management app, ensuring all stakeholders are on board with its implementation is important.

Create usage guidelines for employees and ensure everyone understands the policies for booking flights, hotels, etc.

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Booking flights for business travel can be done through a corporate travel management tool, which centralizes bookings and approvals while providing personalized recommendations based on traveler preferences.

Alternatively, flights can be booked directly through airlines or third-party platforms, though this may not offer the same level of control and oversight as a dedicated tool.

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A mobile corporate travel app is designed to streamline and simplify booking and managing business travel.

These apps often provide features such as real-time flight alerts, itinerary organization, and expense tracking, making them an essential tool for busy professionals on the go.

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PackPoint: Handy Tool To Ensure You Pack Everything You Need

Packpoint is a handy packing app that can simplify preparations for your business travel by ensuring you have all the items you need for your trip.

By avoiding forgetting essential items, devices, or documents you can avoid any last-minute panic, cost incurred, or time wasted trying to replace them during your trip before your presentation or meeting.

Not having to worry about missing items will avoid disruption to your schedule and ensure you can perform your tasks effectively.

Packpoint will even make suggestions based on your destination, the weather forecast, and the activities you have planned.

Egencia: Comprehensive Corporate Travel Management

Egencia is a complete corporate travel management platform that offers a user-friendly mobile app for booking and managing trips.

The tool provides 24/7 customer support and travel assistance, ensuring you have access to help whenever you need it.

With its robust features and comprehensive approach to travel management, Egencia makes it easy to stay organized and in control of your business travel.

SAP Concur: Integrated Travel, Expense, and Invoice Management

SAP Concur is a powerful platform that combines travel, expense, and invoice management in one centralized solution.

The tool allows for seamless data transfer and workflow management, ensuring all aspects of your travel process are integrated and efficient.

Customizable policy enforcement and approval workflows help ensure compliance with company policies, while detailed analytics and insights into travel spending enable you to make informed decisions about your travel program.

Google Travel: Plan and Track Trips Easily

Google Travel , previously known as Google Trips, helps you plan trips and will centralize all your travel information by linking it to your Google account.

By guiding you through the process and identifying the most useful information and best offers it simplifies the planning process and keeps everything in one place.

Not just for business travel, Google Travel is equally useful for leisure and family trips.

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Business travel management tools are software applications and platforms that help organizations and individuals streamline and optimize their travel planning, booking, and expense management processes.

How Can Business Travel Management Tools Benefit My Organization?

These tools can save time, enhance productivity, improve cost control, and ensure compliance with travel policies. They provide a centralized platform for managing travel-related tasks, such as booking flights, tracking expenses, and creating itineraries.

Are These Tools Suitable for Small Businesses As Well?

Absolutely! Many of these tools cater to businesses of all sizes, including small and medium enterprises. They offer scalable solutions that can be tailored to your organization’s specific needs.

Can I Integrate These Tools With Our Existing Systems?

Most business travel management tools offer integration capabilities with popular travel booking platforms, accounting software, ERPs, and other relevant software. This ensures seamless data flow and minimizes manual effort.

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Technological advancements in the travel industry meet the growing demand for personalized experiences, safety, and sustainability. Post the COVID-19 pandemic, emerging travel trends mark a shift towards contactless travel through digital payments, self-check-ins, and more. Additionally, artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), and blockchain are automating various hospitality and travel-related operations.

For instance, smart hotels make use of internet-connected devices to remotely control rooms. Further, businesses offer virtual tours by adopting extended reality (XR) technologies like virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). Travel companies also leverage data analytics to personalize marketing. At the same time, traveler assisting solutions like chatbots and voice technology aid them in booking accommodation and optimizing journeys. These travel trends improve the overall profitability of the tourism industry and enable it to make operations more sustainable and safe.

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Based on the Travel Innovation Map, the Tree Map below illustrates the impact of the Top 9 Travel Industry Trends in 2025. Startups and scaleups are enabling contactless travel using technologies like biometrics, radio-frequency identification (RFID), and near-field communication (NFC). This is due to increasing health and hygiene concerns post the pandemic. The use of AI in tourism ensures hassle-free trip planning while AR and VR allow tourists to virtually visit various locations and excursions. IoT increases visibility into tourism industry operations and allows passengers to track their luggage more efficiently. Further, the demand for personalized and luxurious travel is rising. Several startups enable recreational space travel as well as offer sustainable travel options to passengers.

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1. artificial intelligence.

Hotels employ intelligent chatbots, powered by AI, to provide quick and personalized responses to traveler inquiries. These chatbots simplify the booking process and gather customer reviews, aiding potential travelers in making informed decisions. Moreover, AI-based robots enhance the customer experience by automating hotel disinfection and delivering room service.

At airports, these robots guide travelers and assist with luggage handling. Facial recognition technology, driven by AI, expedites identity verification at airports, enhancing security and offering a swift alternative to traditional methods. Startups are developing AI-powered trip planning solutions, optimizing journeys, and personalizing travel experiences.

Travel Professor develops a Travel Chatbot

UK-based startup Travel Professor offers an AI-enabled chatbot for travelers. The startup’s chat widget software monitors multiple flight deals and notifies users when their preferences match. It also provides travel destination recommendations and flight price alerts. This allows travelers to book economical flights and have a budget-friendly tourism experience.

SkyLink develops AI-based Corporate Travel Agent

US startup SkyLink offers a platform that streamlines travel booking and management directly through messaging applications. Its two main products include Email Automation and SkyLink Chat . Email Automation acts as a co-pilot for booking and non-booking workflows, while SkyLink Chat serves as a digital agent within native enterprise chat channels. The platform personalizes the travel experience based on loyalty and preferences, optimizing choices for cost-effectiveness.

2. Immersive Tourism

Immersive tourism caters to the growing demand for meaningful experiences among travelers, leveraging AR, VR, and mixed reality (MR). VR simulates original locations through a computer-generated environment, allowing tourists to virtually explore destinations. It provides travelers with a comprehensive 360-degree tour of points of interest.

AR enhances the travel experience with interactive elements such as navigation maps and ads. Travel companies employ AR and VR-based gamification to heighten tourist attractions. Moreover, these technologies enable hotels and resorts to present amenities and rooms in an engaging, interactive manner.

VR Travel Expo offers VR-based Travel Plans

US startup VR Travel Expo develops a VR travel application to transform the way people research and book travel. The application enables users to plan their vacations more efficiently. It provides an engaging platform for users to explore and expand their knowledge of the world. Moreover, it employs 3D geospatial technology that creates real-time digital twins of the world. This further enhances the travel planning experience.

AR Tour makes AR Glasses

Italian startup AR Tour offers AR-powered tours. The startup’s AR glasses superimpose reconstructed images of archaeological ruins to show how the site originally was. Its tour informs the tourists about the site’s history and significance via an audio-visual package. Moreover, the startup designs lightweight AR glasses to prevent motion sickness among tourists, improving convenience.

3. Internet of Things

IoT generates ample data that tourism companies leverage to personalize services in their subsequent visits. Hotels use IoT sensors to enable smart rooms that automate room lighting, temperature, and ambiance control, enhancing guest comfort. These sensors adjust appliances in vacant rooms, conserving energy and reducing the building’s carbon footprint.

Startups harness IoT to deliver location-specific information to customers, including real-time luggage tracking via IoT tags, minimizing lost items. Airlines also incorporate IoT-based solutions into seats, monitoring passenger temperature and heart rate for proactive health management.

Altitude enables Smart Hotels

New Zealand-based startup Altitude creates an IoT-based hotel software and hardware to develop smart hotels. The startup makes self-service kiosks to automate reservations, room up-gradation, payments, as well as check-in and check-out. Its hotel management platform further enables contactless engagement with guests. Additionally, Altitude’s mobile keys allow guests to open doors using mobile phones, providing convenience and saving time for travelers.

Smart Tour provides Smart Itineraries

Brazilian startup Smart Tour offers smart itineraries using IoT and quick response (QR) codes. The startup recommends travel routes and destinations based on the user’s preference in real-time. This facilitates a seamless experience for travelers. Besides, the user-generated data enables tourism managers to better understand consumer behavior and indulge in proximity marketing. The startup also offers a contact tracing solution to monitor COVID-19 infected travelers and ensure public safety.

4. Contactless Travel

Travelers benefit from contactless recognition technologies like retina scanning, which replace traditional travel documents, speeding up passenger identification and reducing airport queues. QR codes offered by travel companies allow tourists to access relevant information on their mobile devices, enhancing engagement.

Hotels have introduced contactless self-check-ins, enabling visitors to arrange services before arrival. Additionally, contactless payment modes are available in hotels and restaurants for swift and secure transactions. Moreover, wearable devices are transforming the travel experience by providing real-time notifications and touch-free access to services and information.

Loxe designs Smart Hotel Keys

US-based startup Loxe makes smart mobile keys for hotels. The startup’s smartphone app replaces key cards with contactless mobile keys that allow users to unlock doors using smartphones. It also reduces operational costs incurred in the manufacturing of conventional keys or plastic cards. Moreover, the startup designs a Bluetooth retrofit module that converts normal door locks into mobile-ready door locks. This allows hotel owners to easily convert their existing locks into smart ones without additional expenses while improving guest safety and convenience.

Avendi provides Contactless Payment

Singaporean startup Avendi offers contactless and cashless payments for travelers. The startup allows tourists to accumulate expenses throughout their trip and pay at the end of the journey. Avendi’s app utilizes QR codes to add all the billed expenses and shown through its dashboard. The user settles the tab amount in the preferred currency, preventing the inconvenience of cash withdrawal or credit card payments.

5. Big Data & Analytics

Big data empowers travel companies with customer trends for strategic marketing. Analyzing traveler behavior, they offer tailored recommendations for hotel bookings, cab hires, flight reservations, and ticket purchases.

Predicting future demand is another advantage of big data and analytics, helping hotels and airlines identify peak periods to optimize revenue. Advanced analysis of transactional data aids in detecting cyber fraud, and safeguarding sensitive customer information such as credit card details and biometric data.

CheckandPack creates a Travel Platform

Dutch startup CheckandPack offers a big data travel platform. It runs marketing campaigns to gather traveler data and understand tourism trends. Based on these insights, the platform enables businesses to approach travelers with a customized appeal. It also provides travelers with holiday planning.

3Victors provides Travel Data Analytics

US-based startup 3Victors offers travel data analytics. The startup’s product, PriceEye Suite , proactively monitors the prices of numerous airlines to provide insights into competitor prices. It creates a dashboard to display travelers’ location of interest, allowing travel airlines to better manage their revenue and pricing strategy.

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6. Post-Pandemic Tourism

Post-pandemic tourism focuses on safe, sustainable, and flexible travel options, responding to evolving traveler preferences and health guidelines. Enhanced health and safety protocols, including regular sanitization and contactless services, become standard in airlines and hotels, ensuring traveler confidence.

Destinations and operators emphasize outdoor and less crowded experiences, catering to a heightened demand for nature-based and wellness travel. Flexible booking policies and trip insurance gain prominence, offering peace of mind amid uncertainties. Sustainable travel gains traction, with tourists and businesses prioritizing environmental impact and community well-being.

GOPASS Global enables Pre-travel Risk Management

Singaporean startup GOPASS Global provides a travel risk analytics platform against COVID-19. It analyzes the biosecurity risk elements involved in a trip, such as border restrictions, quarantine requirements, airport type, and airline transit points or seating in real-time. This allows travelers to assess risk factors and plan their trips accordingly.

Moreover, the startup creates world maps displaying information regarding COVID-prone areas, testing areas, and vaccine coverage. This provides travelers with a preview of the current situation, allowing them to ensure safety during business and leisure travel.

Workcations enables Work from Anywhere

Indian startup Workcations provides properties at tourist destinations for remote-working individuals. It offers amenities like internet connectivity, food, and a quiet ambiance, allowing tourists to work in a peaceful environment without hindrance. This increases employee productivity, motivation, and retention.

7. Tour Premiumization

Hyper-personalization in travel experiences is on the rise, with tourists eager to immerse themselves in diverse cultures. Luxury travelers enjoy tailored experiences and intuitive services through tour premiumization. Health and wellness packages offered by travel startups help tourists unwind.

These retreats enhance health and offer detoxifying food options. Space tourism is another exciting development, offering leisure or research trips to space. Lastly, travel startups are fostering customer loyalty and building strong relationships through membership or subscription models.

STOKE provides Space Tour

US-based startup STOKE facilitates space travel using everyday-operable rockets. The startup’s rockets are reusable and deliver satellites to any desired orbit. This enables on-demand access to space, paving way for space tours for exploration, recreation, and research. The startup also emphasizes the economical and rapid development of its hardware for feasible spacecraft launches, advancing space tourism.

Origin offers Travel Personalization

Dutch startup Origin provides premium travel personalization to tourists. The startup utilizes machine learning and travel curators to plan creative vacations. It also arranges flights and accommodation for travelers. Further, the startup measures the carbon output of itineraries and offers sustainable tourism options.

8. Ecotourism

Traveling responsibly minimizes tourism’s environmental impact and supports local communities’ well-being. Ecotourists strive to reduce their carbon footprint during their journeys. Startups contribute by developing sustainable transport, ecolodges, and solar-powered resorts.

Airline passengers have the option to offset carbon emissions during flight bookings. Local tourism stimulates small businesses economically and creates job opportunities. It also emphasizes minimum littering, which lowers pollution and the time spent on cleanups.

Jet-Set Offset simplifies Flight Carbon Offset

US-based startup Jet-Set Offset creates a carbon-offsetting platform for air travel. The startup partners with non-profit organizations working against climate change and connects them with travelers. Each time travelers book flight tickets via the startup’s platform, Jet-Set Offset contributes a certain amount per mile for their journey to environmental organizations. This way, the passenger’s journey promotes mileage-based donations to offset carbon emissions.

The Green Stamp facilitates Ethical Wildlife Tour

Dutch startup The Green Stamp provides a platform to book ethical wildlife tours. It curates tours based on the tourists’ inclinations toward certain locations or wildlife. Exploration of these projects allows travelers to indirectly contribute to their cause as these wildlife projects donate to the welfare of local communities and the environment.

9. Blockchain

Blockchain provides the travel industry with operational transparency and security. Traceable payments, particularly for international travel, are a key application, that fosters trust among parties involved in transactions.

Automation and enforcement of agreements in travel insurance and supplier contracts are achieved through smart contracts. This strengthens reliability and cuts administrative costs. Travel firms establish customer loyalty programs where points are exchanged for cryptocurrency. Lastly, blockchain increases data storage security, reducing the risk of information leaks.

Upswing facilitates Guest Profiling

Indian startup Upswing creates AURA , a blockchain-powered platform for guest profiling. It provides a holistic view of guests, their preferences, and purchase patterns. The platform associates a score with each guest and suggests improvements in their service. This facilitates hotels to provide a personalized experience to their guests and, in turn, increase sales.

UIQ Travel develops a Solo Traveling App

US-based startup UIQ Travel develops a blockchain-based app to connect solo travelers. It discovers people with shared interests and suggests tours or attractions. Such hyper-personalized recommendations assist in experience discovery and also increase traveler engagement.

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Tourism, although severely impacted by the pandemic, now continues to rapidly grow across the globe. Post-pandemic trends indicate an increasing emphasis on hygiene and safety during travel. The industry is witnessing the widespread adoption of disruptive technologies like AI, XR, IoT, and blockchain. The travel industry utilizes big data to understand traveler trends for targeted marketing. The transition to ecotourism is accelerating as businesses integrate zero-emission transit and carbon offset programs to reduce their carbon footprint.

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Just as consumers have go-to websites to book their personal travel, businesses need platforms to book and manage the travel needs of their workforce. 

There’s a lot to manage. Business travel is an octopus touching any number of roles and functions—encompassing everything from booking, expense reporting, and manager approvals on the employee side to cost control, risk management, and technology considerations on the business side. The best corporate travel software delivers on both ends, driving a pleasant and predictable employee travel experience while enabling travel managers and other stakeholders—HR, accounting, and finance among them—to run policy-compliant travel programs that keep a lid on costs.

Choosing the right B2B travel system is key to setting up your corporate travel program for success. In this article, we’ll aim to help you land on the right tool for your business’s needs—and reap the benefits of a modern corporate travel booking software.

What are B2B travel solutions?

B2B travel solutions help companies manage the travel needs of their workforce with software and services. These platforms are designed with corporate travel needs in mind, and some are geared toward certain aspects of corporate travel, such as expense management or booking.

Many travel solutions are designed to automate what might otherwise be time-consuming tasks, such as booking flights, hotels, or rental cars that meet the guidelines of your corporate travel policy, filing and approving detailed expense reports, or analyzing outlays on business travel at scale.

For our purposes, we’ll focus on two categories of B2B travel solutions: travel and expense management solutions , and booking and reservation solutions.

Travel and expense management solutions

Travel and expense management solutions are designed to help employees, managers, and central travel teams (like travel managers) track and manage the expenses associated with travel. That can include receipt capture, expense reports and tracking, managerial approval, compliance checks, and more.

Some travel and expense platforms have neat solutions built in to speed up expense reporting, like auto-filling expense reports based on AI scans of receipts. They may offer real-time spend controls that flag when an employee is spending too much, or when an expense may be non-compliant. Some platforms integrate with accounting and payroll platforms to pipe right into the corporate financial network.

Booking and reservation solutions

Booking and reservation solutions facilitate the booking process for business travel—flights, hotel rooms, rental cars, and similar reservations that can be time-consuming, costly, and disorderly if not standardized across your workforce. 

These can take the form of software or service providers—or a mix of both. Software is often a reservation platform accessible to employees for booking, or to a team of centralized travel managers who book on behalf of employees. Service providers may be third-party travel agents who do the booking for you. Some firms might purchase a booking platform in addition to travel services with agents who can be on call for emergencies, or to help out during other travel snafus like cancellations related to weather. 

Searching for a B2B travel solution can be overwhelming—there are a lot of options on the market, and they’re not all built the same. Here’s a roundup of six to help you land on the right platform for your business.

Rippling is a cloud-based expense and workforce management platform. With Ripping you can automate key parts of the expense-approval process, create role- and policy-based rules and workflows, and easily enforce the expense parameters of your corporate travel program . It can even flag over-spending or other anomalies for further review. 

While most expense management tools can save companies time and simplify the employee reimbursement process, they typically aren’t connected with the rest of your company’s finance systems. 

In Rippling, you can manage all of your company spend —expense reimbursements alongside vendor bills, payroll, and corporate cards—together on one intuitive platform. This gives companies unprecedented control and visibility over spend. With Rippling, you can create customizable reports, approval chains, and policy enforcements—all on an intuitive platform.

Since Rippling uses employee data to connect finance with the rest of your workforce management processes, company expense management policies will automatically apply to new employees as soon as they onboard and automatically adjust if they ever change roles.

What's more, if your company has an international presence or eyes global expansion, Rippling’s expense management solution lets you reimburse employees around the world in their local currency—all while reviewing transactions in your native currency.

Key features: 

• Custom, role-based expense workflows
• Automatic expense monitoring with configurable alerts, so you can stay ahead of overspend
• AI-powered expense categorization
• Integrated payroll 
• Intelligent, role-based dashboards to monitor and analyze spend
• Global reimbursement tools such as cross-currency reconciliation, international reimbursements in local currency, and currency and language translation on receipts
• A user-friendly mobile app for employees

Key benefit : With Rippling, your Expense Management and reimbursement tools are natively built alongside all your other HR, IT, and finance apps, from Payroll and Benefits Administration to Time & Attendance , Recruiting , Performance Management , and more. All of Rippling’s apps are built on top of a single source of truth for employee data, which drives their powerful automation and reporting capabilities.

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Travelperk is a travel management platform designed to help businesses book and manage corporate travel. It has a booking system that allows employees to book flights, trains, cars, and hotels directly inside the platform using Travelperk’s own inventory. Businesses save money thanks to Travelperk’s access to negotiated rates, and admins can easily set travel policies that govern what employees can book.

Key features:

• Set travel and expense policies directly in the platform
• Expense approvals and spend dashboards for admins
• Savings on bookings thanks to negotiated rates
• Easy cancellation (recoup 80%)
• 24/7 travel support
• Green-booking options that help employees find sustainable travel options

Key benefit : Ease of booking inside the platform, and access to 25,000 negotiated rates in 150 countries.

Founded in 1993, SAP Concur is one of the more-established B2B travel platforms available. It offers travel and expense management capabilities designed to help streamline booking and expensing, while offering real-time insights into spend along with compliance tools to manage the wider travel program. You can buy capabilities a la carte ; offerings are broken out into Expense, Travel, and Invoice.

• Expense offers automations to speed up reviews and processing, including auto capture on receipts and dashboards to analyze spend at scale
• Travel is a booking platform that empowers employees to do their own booking within the parameters of your travel policies.
• Invoice is an accounts payable platform that streamlines expense approval with an eye on compliance and cost controls

Key benefit: Proven travel software popular among large enterprises. 

FCM Travel’s booking platform takes a tailored approach to customers’ needs, tailoring the booking platform to the rules and policies of individual corporate travel programs. FCM offers in-person support (“travel experts”) if employees need additional support. The software comes with reporting to manage costs, and dashboards that help you track travelers to be able to offer support in the event of an emergency. 

• VIP travel feature that includes added support for executives
• Risk management dashboards to make informed travel decisions with regard to employee safety
• 24/7 support in 95 countries 

Key benefit: Executive travelers can get added support, and risk management is simplified with dedicated features designed to help travel managers keep employees safe when they hit the road.

Egencia by American Express Global Business Travel

Amex’s Global Business Travel provides access to corporate travel services ranging from all-in-one booking and management software to consulting services that help you get your corporate travel program off the ground. One of their offerings, Egencia , is a travel management platform powering business travel end-to-end with booking and other capabilities. A premium GBT Select offering is available for those with bespoke requirements.

• APIs can feed travel and expense data into other platforms in your tech stack ( such as for user management, expenses, and reporting )
• A mobile app where travelers can book, store receipts, and track expenses 
• Sustainability features that allow bookers to sort travel options by carbon emissions, for example
• An optional Advantage program that includes services for visa processing, flight insurance, and risk management 

Key benefit :  A “Savings Finder” that monitors rates on hotel and airfare bookings, and rebooks automatically if rates go down.

Navan offers online booking plus travel management features like spend management, reporting, and sustainability. A Pro offering pairs the booking and expense platform with travel agents. Employees can use the Navan platform to book their personal travel, too, and apply awards accrued from business trips to personal getaways.

• Rewards for business travel that can be applied to personal travel
• Travel spend dashboards for real-time reporting and analysis
• Event-planning features to help organizers plan team meetups and other corporate events

Key benefit: User-friendly booking software that allows employees to book both personal and professional travel. Rewards for travel booked on the platform—which encourages compliance with your travel policy—can be redeemed without blackout dates, and at no cost to you (Navan fully funds rewards up to maximum value of $100 per booking).

Key features of B2B travel solutions

The market for B2B travel solutions is saturated with options, and many may appear similar on the surface. How do you differentiate between all that’s out there? Here’s a look at six crucial features HR managers and business owners should look for in a solution, and why.

Global inventory

Inventory, in travel speak, refers to the range of potential bookings available from a travel provider. That means both the types of travel you can book–from flights to hotels to rental cars, and even trains–and the options available within each category, including destinations, carriers, flight times, and so on. 

More inventory means more choice when it comes to booking, which could offer employees more control over how and when they get from point A to point B. Greater inventory also means employees are more likely to book on-platform versus an unapproved website, for instance, which can improve compliance. 

Safety and risk management features

Businesses are required by law to look after their employees when they travel for work (this is known as the “duty of care”). That means staying on top of who is traveling where, and the potential risks that await them. If there are risks, you’ll need to weigh those against the potential upside to the business and whether the risks apply to the traveler in question, among other factors. 

Even if destinations are perfectly safe to travel to, things happen. People become sick, weather grounds planes, employees get robbed. With that in mind, look for B2B travel solutions that can help you prepare for these eventualities, whether by making resources available to employees in one centralized location, or by offering a dedicated support line staffed by qualified travel agents who can help out in a pinch.

Compliance features

Creating your corporate travel policy is one thing; enforcing it is another. Some B2B travel solutions can help you achieve a higher rate of compliance by allowing you to build your policies directly into the platform to govern the options available to employees when they book. 

Look for a platform that allows you to set budgetary parameters, including rules for certain categories of travel and classes of booking, as well as “special” rules, like those for teams that may need to spend more on last-minute travel to service urgent client needs, for instance.

Regardless, some travel will inevitably be non-compliant. The best platforms flag non-compliance so you can address it with enforcement, or tweak your policy according to the real-world travel needs of your workforce.

Real-time travel expense tracking

Tracking and managing travel expenses is often a primary motivator for implementing B2B travel solutions. Make sure the platform you’re considering offers real-time insights into spend, so that you can check in on travel outlays at any moment. The best platforms allow you to drill down according to different categories of travel and types of travelers (at the team level, for instance).  

Deep customization according to business needs

Every business has unique needs when it comes to business travel, so look for a platform that will accommodate yours. Often that means the ability to set up custom parameters according to your travel policy, but it also applies to the process of booking, payment, approvals, and expense tracking. How customizable are the approval workflows, for example?

Some companies have strict sustainability policies, or different travel policies for different business activities. Some treat executive travel differently. Make sure the platform you choose can be configured to meet these and other requirements.

Easy integration with other systems

Tech stacks today are overflowing with tools that need to be able to integrate with one another for data to flow seamlessly between them. Make sure the system you choose integrates with existing tools that fulfill functions your travel solution doesn’t—namely those related to IT, user management, security, accounting, payroll, and expense management.

Benefits of using B2B travel solutions

There are a range of benefits associated with B2B travel solutions, many of which involve streamlining what would otherwise be disparate methods of booking, tracking, and managing the program. Here are five benefits worth considering as you assess your needs and what’s available in the market: 

A better booking and travel experience for employees

B2B travel solutions can radically improve the employee booking experience, if only by offering a clear and repeatable way to go about arranging business trips. 

Travel solutions are often implemented in concert with a broader corporate travel program that aims to provide employees with clear guidelines and policies governing travel for booking, expenses, and reimbursement . Travel solutions are the tech that powers it all and activates the policy among your workforce, while giving you the tools to manage travel spend and assess it against your goals for the program. 

End-to-end improvements in efficiency

B2B travel solutions are designed to automate and streamline what might otherwise be time-consuming tasks at all stages of the employee booking journey. That saves employees precious time and frees them up to focus on the jobs they were hired for. Travel solutions save travel managers and executive stakeholders time and headaches, too, by streamlining key aspects of compliance and risk management, for instance. 

Enhanced reporting and analytics on travel spend

B2B travel solutions empower corporate leaders to extract efficiencies from travel programs by making it easy to analyze spend and other key performance indicators (KPIs). They can help financial managers:

• Predict future travel demand based on historical data
• Analyze spend to see where costs are concentrated—whether they are tied to certain roles or departments, methods of travel, or routes, for instance
• Identify patterns in travel behavior that could inform the next iteration of your corporate travel program
• Generate insights for monthly, quarterly, or annual reports

Customized support for employees

B2B travel solutions can offer employees a pathway to help when they need it, whether it’s during the booking process, while they’re filing expense reports, or on the road .

Policy compliance according to company guidelines

Travel solutions can be implemented with your company’s corporate travel program in mind, and they can even automate some aspects of compliance—flagging, for example, if spend is crossing a certain threshold. Some come with built-in risk management tools that provide risk assessments for travel destinations to keep your travelers safe.

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Rippling is an expense-management platform that allows you to automate expenses with complete control thanks to expense reporting with real-time policy checks, seamless approvals, and direct accounting integration. 

Why Rippling is the best option for travel expense management

Rippling consolidates all of your company’s finances—from payroll and benefits to corporate cards and expense management–giving you an up-to-date view of cash flow across your company and offering unprecedented control over spending patterns.  

While most expense management solutions only allow for basic employee-manager approval chains, with Rippling expense management’s advanced policy engine, you can set hyper-custom policies based on the vendor, dollar amount, and expense category, helping you block out-of-policy expenses with ease. You can also tee up automated workflows that help you control spend, like triggering an alert when a department’s expenses sharply increase. 

 Other reasons why Rippling stands out for travel expense management:

• Automated approvals to drive efficiency : Automatically route expenses and bills to the right approver every time.
• Built-in checks to boost compliance : Rippling can enforce travel-expense policies and flag out-of-policy spending with hyper-custom policies, like by vendor or value, for further review. 
• AI to eliminate admin : Close the books faster with AI-powered transaction categorization, and integration with your accounting systems.
• Real-time insights to track travel spend : Get real-time visibility into travel and expense data so you can track spend against targets. You can also build role-based dashboards so users can monitor what’s relevant to them. One for the controller, one for team leads, another for the CFO, etc. 
• A user-friendly interface for easy adoption : Rippling has a user-friendly interface that makes it easy for employees and managers to submit, approve, and track expenses without much training. Employees can also submit expenses from an easy-to-use mobile app.

If you’re just diving into the travel management software procurement process, you may also be wondering:

How do B2B travel solutions differ from consumer travel solutions?

B2B travel companies differ from consumer travel solutions in that they are tailored to the needs of businesses and business travelers. They’re built to accommodate corporate travel programs that have specific processes and controls in place around booking, spend, reimbursement, compliance, and administration.

Can B2B travel solutions integrate with other business systems?

Most B2B travel solutions integrate with other business systems using APIs or custom integrations, though many aim to centralize as many travel-related processes into one platform as possible. Common integrations include those for user management, IT/security, accounting/payroll, HR, and expense management.

How can B2B travel solutions help with policy compliance?

B2B travel management can help with policy compliance by centralizing various aspects of your corporate travel program into one tool. Booking platforms can be configured to allow only reservations that are compliant with your corporate travel policy. Further, some travel expense tools can flag vendors or claims that may be noncompliant and require a closer look.

Disclaimer: Rippling and its affiliates do not provide tax, accounting, or legal advice. This material has been prepared for informational purposes only, and is not intended to provide or be relied on for tax, accounting, or legal advice. You should consult your own tax, accounting, and legal advisors before engaging in any related activities or transactions.

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3 Days in Saint Petersburg Russia: My Perfect 3-Day Saint Petersburg Itinerary

Saint Petersburg is one of Russia’s largest and most exciting cities, offering visitors thousands of things to do, including museums, palaces, beautiful parks, historical sites, and world-class theatre. Discover all the sights and delights the cultural capital of Russia has to offer with my 3-day Saint Petersburg itinerary.

With all these options, planning a trip to Saint Petersburg can be a bit overwhelming, especially for first-time visitors. I’ve put together a recommended 3-day Saint Petersburg itinerary that will help you see the city’s highlights if you have at least 3 days in Saint Petersburg.

Saint Petersburg is a budget-friendly destination that promises historical immersion and exquisite architecture at half the price of that in Western Europe.

My suggested 3-day itinerary has you visiting all the city’s most famous attractions (e.g., the atmospheric Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, the Winter Palace, the Hermitage Museum) as well as some of the city’s lesser-known attractions. In addition to the 3-day itinerary, I also provide tips on how to get around Saint Petersburg and tips on where to eat and stay during your 3 days in Saint Petersburg.

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Start with an early morning walk along Nevsky Avenue from Vosstaniya Square to the Admiralty Building. The first point of interest is the Hero-City obelisk next to the Moskovsky railway station commemorating the victory of Soviet people over the Nazis. The lovely views will put you in a good mood for the rest of the day. Stop for a nice cappuccino at one of the bars near Gostiny Dvor, a Russian alternative to the French Passage. Enjoy the sight of the old Anichkov Bridge, the oldest bridge over the Fontanka River.

Then make your way to the neoclassical St. Isaac’s Cathedral. It’s a good idea to climb to its colonnade’s observation platform. It means that you get a panoramic view of the St.Petersburg and the refreshing breeze in the summertime.

In St. Isaac’s Cathedral you can admire the interior that boasts more than 300 paintings, mosaics, sculptures, various kinds of precious stones and gilding. The walls of the Cathedral are faced with fine Italian and Russian varieties of marble and other stones: malachite, lapis lazuli, porphyry. St. Isaac’s Cathedral, for example, is otherwise known as the “Museum of stones”.

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Just a stone’s throw away from St. Isaac’s Cathedral you’ll find the Winter Palace and the Hermitage Museum. These are the most famous attractions in St. Petersburg and you simply can’t miss them. Spend some time taking awesome pictures of the Palace Square, then continue your walking tour of St Petersburg toward the Spit of Vasilevsky Island.

Here you’ll find red Rostral Columns decorated with bronze anchors and four pairs of bronze ship prows. Ah, don’t miss out on visiting the KunstKamera, arguably the weirdest museum in the world.

End your first day in Saint Petersburg exploring the Peter and Paul Fortress. The mighty that never served its purpose to protect the city sits on a narrow strip of land at the mouth of the Neva river. Hare’s island is home to a plethora of various buildings, museums, and exhibitions both permanent and temporary. Although, these do not always reflect the specific history of the fortress itself.

Be sure to make your way down to the Neva River. Here you can have a take a leisurely stroll along the mighty granite walls and mingle with locals.

Saint Petersburg, Russia in 3 days – Day 2

First things first. You can’t visit Saint Petersburg without seeing the real Dutch and Flemish Painting in the Hermitage Museum. It’s worth the trip but book ahead, and allow yourself at least two hours. A good place for a coffee and a pastry is Hermitage Cafe in the General Staff building. Pop over to the Field of Mars to have a look at ordinary people spending their leisure time and the first eternal flame in the country.

If you are a history buff, visit the Museum of the Defense and Siege of Leningrad. a former monastery filled with atmospheric early Renaissance frescoes painted by Fra’ Angelico. The permanent exhibition features the history of the city during the 900-day Blockade, which lasted from 8 September 1941 to 17 January 1944. It goes without saying that this is a very sobering, and unique place to visit for thought-provoking entertainment.

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Then walk along Moika Embankment towards Chizhyk Pyzhik sculpture (pine siskin), and from there take a stroll through the Michael Garden (Mikhaylovskiy Sad) to reach the Church of the Savior on Blood. Admire the ornate cupolas of the Cathedral, otherwise known as ‘Spas Na Krovi‘. It was built on the very spot that Alexander II had been assassinated on March 1, 1881. You can also admire the Cathedral’s interior from inside – walls and ceilings are completely covered in intricate mosaics and paintings.

Nevsky Avenue and adjoining Griboyedov Canal are full of lovely little shops to browse in. At the intersection of Griboyedov Canal and Nevsky Avenue, you’ll find several cozy restaurants offering a wide array of dining options.

In the afternoon, head along to the Alexander Garden to see the Monuments and the Bronze Horseman; a monument to Peter the Great) next to the Admiralty building. From there take a subway ride (Admiralteyskaya station) and go see the impressive Narva Triumphal Arch. Definitely one of the most underrated attractions in St Petersburg.

This remarkable roman arch is made of bricks and covered with copper sheets for the facades. There are four columns on the front side, two on each side of the arch, chariot on the top and the two statues of ancient Russian warriors. The square around the arch is a lively spot in a summer evening too.

Saint Petersburg 3-day itinerary – Day 3

While St Petersburg is a perfectly walkable city, the main streets can get quite crowded in high-season. However, there is always an escape to one of the royal suburbs.

Spend the third day of your 3 days in St. Petersburg taking day trips to Peterhof and/or Pushkin.

Peterhof has many intricate fountains, the highlight being the Samson Fountain with the lion. The sculpture celebrates the Russian victories, especially the victory over Sweden, whose coat-of-arms contains the figure of a lion. Peterhof Park and gardens are a vast area behind the palace where you can spend a few hours to escape the crowds.

Should you choose, I recommend heading to Peterhof in summer. The former royal residence of Peterhof sits some 30 minutes by hydrofoil from the Hermitage Embankment. Peterhof consists of a series of palaces, gardens and the Grand Cascade that makes the city an extremely popular destination in summer. If you are here during the summer, check out the palace’s many fountains. Remember, the fountains are only operational from May to September and aren’t functioning during winter. Peterhof is most quickly accessible via minibus from a St. Petersburg suburb, but most easily accessible via direct train from Baltiysky railway station.

Alternatively, sightseers and culture seekers can visit Pushkin – home to a Catherine Palace and the famous Amber Room. I actually visited both Pushkin and Peterhof and it’s nearly impossible to choose between these two amazing places. Keep in mind, during the public holidays both cities can be quite packed with locals. So you may want to visit the Catherine Palace in autumn or winter when it’s much less crowded.

Where to Stay in Saint Petersburg

You’ll be spoiled for choice among Saint Petersburg accommodation options. The city offers everything from luxurious hotels with their own rooftop bars to more affordable budget hotels that put you within 25 minutes of Moskovskaya railway station. No matter what your budget, you’ll be able to find the perfect St Petersburg hostel within easy reach of downtown. Check Railway Capsules . If you’re looking for someplace a bit nicer, I can personally recommend the WYNWOOD Hotel .

The Bottom Line

You did it! You made it to the end of my itinerary for 3 days in Saint Petersburg, Russia! Hopefully, you’ve discovered some of the best attractions in Saint Petersburg and have maybe even learned about some unique things to do in Saint Petersburg too!

I also hope that you now feel comfortable enough to plan the perfect weekend itinerary in Saint Petersburg. So if you’re ready to begin planning your trip to Saint Petersburg, Russia, then pin this now and read it again later!

How many of these attractions would be on your Saint Petersburg itinerary? If you’ve visited Saint Petersburg, what were your favorite spots in Saint Petersburg? If you have any questions about the itinerary or visiting Saint Petersburg, just ask them in the comments below and as always I’m happy to help!

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I’ve always wanted to travel to Russia. This looks amazing! Your photos are beautiful.

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Thank you, Sarah! I agree this country should be visited at least once in a lifetime!

Thank you for sharing. I never dreamt about going to St. Petersburg. May change my mind after reading your blog post and seeing your pictures though 😀

Thank you for sharing.We would be in Sankt Petersburg in July 2020,for sure we would use the Guide.Thanks again.

Once this covid crisis is over, I can’t wait to get there — am looking forward to the suggested itinerary!

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