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Here are four ways you can use data from Egencia and the Egencia Travel Advisor to make more effective policy decisions and increase your travelers’ confidence in returning to travel. Access to up-to-date procedural information ensures you are equipped to show to your travelers how they can travel in the context of their wellbeing, while at the same time balancing travel with Duty of Care obligations. Country-level information can inform your decisions about international and domestic travel, and travel policy settings, information that can also save your travelers potential frustrations. Ensuring your travelers have access to information about supplier protocols in the context of their wellbeing can enhance your travelers’ experiences.

Egencia supports travel managers across the globe with enhanced Egencia Connect Community and new Corporate Travel Management training Today, Egencia®, business travel management from Expedia Group™, launches an advanced Egencia Connect Community and is enhancing the Expedia Group Academy with a Corporate Travel Management training available to travel managers worldwide. With the new advanced community, Egencia customers can now ask questions to Egencia directly, query the Egencia knowledge base, engage in topical discussions and join product pilot programs. The new Corporate Travel Management training included in the Expedia Group Academy focuses on sharing the deep travel expertise across Egencia and Expedia Group with the entire global travel manager community.

It’s understandable: travelers may have previously experienced clunky booking tools and draconian travel policies that negatively impact their perception of their company’s preferred partner for booking business travel. The study noted that when a business travel policy is enforced, business travelers are more likely to use the company’s TMC for business travel. With bookings in one place, Egencia’s customers can use a comprehensive suite of approval features including safety approval based on destination risk, alongside traditional cost-focused approval, which is easy to set up and instantly applied to all new bookings. Think through how effective and efficient your travel management solution is, from travelers and travel arrangers planning and booking trips, to how you can demonstrate the value of your travel program to your business stakeholders, right through to how business travel data and efficiency impact your company’s financial reconciliation and reporting.

Going from an online booking system that couldn’t be trusted and delivered a mere 11 per cent adoption rate, it was hard to predict how Egencia’s technology would be received by the team. But Kisieliute said, “People were hungry for online booking,” and within the first month WPMS hit above their target of 80 percent for online adoption. One of the recent adjustments to the company’s travel policy is a result from a discussion with WPMS’s account manager, Natasha Ulrich, who is bringing much-needed insight on travel in the time of COVID-19. With nearly the entire team booking travel online, it’s meant more insights into their corporate travel program at a time when having a full view of company travel is essential for traveler well-being.