BCD Travel, a leading global corporate travel management company with an extensive network of offices throughout the major business centers of the Middle East, today unveiled an enhanced product offering for the region, designed to streamline corporate travel management programs and simplify the travel experience for travelers and travel arrangers.
BCD Travel provides clients with comprehensive, end-to-end travel management programs. Their ongoing research into customer needs led the drive to develop a product offering which focuses on standardization and process efficiencies, resulting in increased service levels for the end users and reduced costs for the program managers. To drive consistency and drive down costs, this offering spans a number of key elements of the business travel process, providing vital information and quality service to decision makers, procurement officers, travel arrangers and travelers.
“We are very excited about this year’s Business Travel Show. Not only does the show present an excellent opportunity to meet many of the leading corporate decision makers in the region, it also enables us to showcase the market-leading technology we use to fuel our clients’ travel programs,” said Greg O’Neil, BCD Travel’s managing director and senior vice president for Growth & Emerging Markets.
One of the products that BCD Travel is showcasing at this year’s show is TripSourceTM: NetSearch, a proprietary, point-of-sale tool which integrates Web-only fares into clients’ managed travel programs and offers full profile interface, policy compliance and MIS reporting. Web fares can represent a serious dilemma for corporations, as travelers booking directly with online suppliers create “leakage” of both spend and data from the managed travel program. To counteract this risk, TripSource: NetSearch delivers integrated Global Distribution System (GDS) and non-GDS content in one display at the point of sale, saving time for travelers and travel arrangers and ensuring that all booking data is available for proper reporting. TripSource: NetSearch has been shortlisted as one of the finalists for the Business Travel Show Innovation Award. Visitors to the show can receive demonstrations of the solution at the BCD Travel exhibition booth (No. 111).
In addition to TripSource: NetSearch, BCD Travel is also showcasing the following solutions at this year’s Business Travel Show:
- TripSource: Profile Manager: BCD Travel’s proprietary profile management solution is a Web-based application allowing travelers to safely and easily update their profile information.
- TripSource: Active Itinerary: Allows travelers to view all their reservation details online, before and during their trip, regardless of where and which GDS was used to make the original reservation.
- DecisionSource™: Security Manager: A comprehensive global security and crisis management platform that provides impact and event classification and monitoring, destination monitoring and proactive traveler tracking.
- DecisionSource: Data Manager: An information management solution that translates data into meaningful information for the right people at the right time throughout the travel and reimbursement lifecycle.
BCD Travel also highlighted its growing presence in the Middle East region at the Business Travel show, with the announcement of a new exclusive representative in Yemen, Apollo Travels. BCD Travel’s expansion has been driven by both global and regional multinational clients wishing to consolidate their travel service and spend in the region.
O’Neil said: “We are delighted to strengthen our regional position with a strong representative in Yemen, a key strategic market. Apollo Travels is a well established travel specialist offering a comprehensive range of services that will enhance our regional solutions for our multinational clients with operations in Yemen. As BCD Travel continues to grow across the Middle East region, both in terms of presence and new business, our investment in regional support, branding, training and technology means that we are well positioned to support the needs of our clients.”
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About BCD Travel
As a leading provider of global corporate travel management, BCD Travel simplifies and streamlines the business of travel. This benefits our client’s organization on every level: from the bottom-line to the business traveler. BCD Travel operates in more than 90 countries on five continents, with US$14 billion in total sales and a combined worldwide workforce in excess of 13,000. BCD Travel is a BCD Holdings N.V. company.For more information, visit www.bcdtravel.com
About BCD Holdings N.V.
BCD Holdings N.V., a family-owned company founded in 1975, is a market leader in the travel
industry. The BCD Holdings’ companies are: BCD Travel (global corporate travel management),
Park ‘N Fly (off-airport parking), TRX (travel transaction processing and data integration
services) and Airtrade (leisure travel). The company employs approximately 15,000 people and
operates in more than 90 countries with total sales, including franchising, of US$15 billion. For
more information visit: www.bcd-nv.com