Complete Trip Management: Tech tools supporting effective business travel

Businesses and their travelers rely on their travel management partner to provide access to the most relevant, reliable, and timely information to drive safety, productivity, and value in today’s travel environment.

From implementing new travel approval processes to sourcing the safest and most cost-effective travel suppliers, and managing potential risks – the travel landscape continues to evolve, and progress, at speed – and so should your travel tools.

In this guide, we answer our customers’ most common questions regarding the tools they need for end-to-end trip management.

Before You Go: Trip Planning

Q. Is it safe to travel to my intended destination? Where can I find accurate information on in-country safety and security risks?

CTM Solution: CTM Traveler Tracker + GeoRisk

CTM Traveler Tracker + GeoRisk provides central access to real-time global travel advice relating to health risks, government policies, travel permits and destination health insights, via an interactive global map and itinerary-based trip search. Traveler Tracker + GeoRisk platform is a complimentary tool for all Corporate Travel Management (CTM) customers.

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Q: How do I know if my travel is approved?

CTM Solution: CTM Approve – integrated, customizable pre-trip approval tools

CTM Approve is an end-to-end pre-trip approval solution which supports traveler safety, budget control and program compliance. This intuitive, integrated approval platform enables businesses to identify potential travel risks prior to booking – reducing cost wastage – and design customizable approval rules based on risk levels.
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Q: When is the cheapest time to travel?

CTM Solution: CTM Fare Forecaster – view the cheapest time to travel across 21 days in a single search

CTM Fare Forecaster provides a visual representation of up-to-date flight prices, displayed by specified journey or destination, across a 21-day window. Fare Forecaster empowers travelers to make more informed and efficient decisions about the most cost-effective time to travel without wasting time on multiple searches.
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Booking Your Travel

Q: Which airline, hotel, or car rental should I book?

CTM Solution: Lightning online booking tool – view integrated airline and hotel health and safety features within the booking search

CTM’s proprietary online booking tool, Lightning, integrates up to date health and safety features, and carbon footprint calculations within the flight and hotel search results. This additional layer of travel data enables travelers to make more informed and reliable supplier decisions to support greater traveler confidence, safety and efficiency, and more sustainable business travel.
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Q: How should I book?

CTM Solution: Within your corporate travel policy and via your TMC! Book through your corporate online booking tool, mobile app or your dedicated travel consulting teams

Book your business travel within your corporate travel policy, ensuring every element of your trip is trackable, compliant with your company’s duty of care requirements, and to enable your travel team to track and communicate with you in an emergency.
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During Your Business Trip

Q: How do I know if there’s an emergency?

CTM Solution: CTM Traveler Tracking + GeoRisk, CTM Risk Alerts, CTM Portal News

CTM’s Traveler Tracker + GeoRisk platform supports traveler safety and corporate duty of care by tracking travelers’ locations via their travel itinerary, anywhere in the world. Updated in real-time and fully integrated with the individual’s travel itinerary, the interactive global mapping tool also provides an instant picture of country-by-country risk levels.

CTM Risk Alerts is an automated risk management dispatch solution which keeps travelers informed of potential travel risks as they happen, via SMS and / or email.
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Q: What should I do in an emergency while I’m away?

CTM Solution: CTM’s 24/7 in-house travel support, manage itinerary changes and book in policy through the CTM Mobile app

CTM provides customers with 24/7 global access to in-house travel support wherever your travels take you, ensuring expert travel assistance is on hand in the event of an emergency. Live itinerary updates direct at your fingertips, you’ll remain connected and supported at every step of the journey.
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When You Get Home

Q: How can I keep updated on our travelers health and well-being?

CTM Solution: CTM Data Hub trip reports

CTM’s Data Hub reporting tool offers an intuitive and highly visual means of monitoring your corporate travel activity and program performance. It also provides the ability for users to dissect complex travel data by traveler, location, department, supplier, travel reason, and more, to create and share customized reports. Our information Well-being dashboard makes it easy to identify frequent travelers who might be at risk of burnout based on timezones crossed, traveling in personal time or red eye services.