Businesses looking to cut their corporate travel expenditure should first review their corporate travel policies and enforce existing rules before introducing new ones, according to leading business travel management company, BCD Travel.
BCD Travel NSW Operations Manager, Cherie Drummond, said many Australian businesses had in-house corporate travel policies but they were not rigorously enforced. Often companies relied upon their staff to adhere to the rules willingly, rather than enforcing them through a tailored online booking engine.
BCD Travel business travel clients can enforce their policies more easily by removing expensive options on their individual corporate travel company profiles via BCD Travel’s online booking engine, meaning staff would no longer have the ability to tick a box for things like business class travel on short flight bookings.
BCD Travel also suggests that companies review their corporate travel policies and remove any ambiguous information so that the rules are plainly understood by staff members.