Optimizing the Business Traveler Experience: Delivering Newfound Savings and Added Value
One of the corporate spend categories that has experienced the greatest amount of change over the last two years is business travel. As the C-suite turns to procurement leaders to support their growth agenda, it is important for procurement to enable employees to recommence impactful business travel.
- Identifies strategies to balance cost savings with traveler experience.
- Explains how centralized data improves transparency and decision-making.
- Outlines a holistic, continuous optimization model for travel procurement.
- Introduces sustainability, safety, and satisfaction as measurable objectives.
- Presents the HRS 5S Framework as a guide for corporate travel success.
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Key Takeaways
- Procurement must balance savings, value, and traveler satisfaction.
- Legacy RFP methods are obsolete—data and continuous optimization are essential.
- Centralized, normalized data enables actionable transparency.
- Real-time optimization drives better forecasting and program agility.
- Sustainability, security, and inclusion are integral to modern travel programs.
- HRS’ 5S Framework—Safety, Savings, Security, Sustainability, Satisfaction—defines travel excellence.
- Digital booking, payment integration, and analytics empower smarter decisions.
Create the greatest value simultaneously for your travelers, your organization and the environment!
Discover how you can efficiently satisfy the following objectives by replacing annual RFPs with a holistic approach:
- Balancing value-added benefits with savings
- Creating a superior business traveler experience
- Delivering operational process efficiencies
- Running a continually optimized program that incorporates different lodging categories (such as meetings, groups, and longstay bookings) to enhance overall volumes
- Building sustainability into what is typically a company’s second-largest expense item
- Supporting diversity and inclusion
- Increasing risk mitigation via duty of care responsibility
This Whitepaper gives you valuable insights on HOW…
- fully centralized, contextualized traveler data leads to actionable transparency
- continuous sourcing makes it possible to optimize procurement in real time
- predictive recommendations and circular learnings add value to the travel program as a whole
- you use the information to make and potentially weight decisions across e.g. costs, traveler preference, diversity & inclusion and sustainability to broaden the value associated with travel procurement
- you can profit from automated digital booking, Payments, and Procurement
As the C-suite turns to procurement leaders to support their growth agenda, it is important for procurement to enable employees to re-commence impactful business travel.
Start now to overhaul processes and technology with minimal disruption to travelers but enormous value to the company, before business travel hits its stride again.
Read this paper, created in collaboration between Art of Procurement and HRS, to find out how!
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