You’ve made the decision to implement a managed travel program – and then reality hits you square in the face: you have to implement it across the company. There are many considerations that go into deciding to use a particular …
Practicing What We Preach
By Terri Barton, VP of Corporate Travel, Acendas Travel The corporate travel industry recently took a strong dose of its own medicine as it congregated in San Diego for the 2022 GBTA (Global Business Travel Association) Conference. Unlike sparsely attended …
Swiping Your Way to Savings of Time and Money
Want to know a secret? Any travel management company worth its weight in salt can save you time and money. But, that’s not the secret. The secret is that your company can enhance those savings even more through the utilization …
Traveler Safety Infographics
Our parent BCD Travel last year created a series of four Infographics, providing broader travel risk advice beyond pandemic issues. The full return of business travel was then delayed by the appearance of new variants. Now is the time to …
Meeting You on Your Terms and on Time
By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel It’s been said: “What gets measured, gets managed.” It is a simple, yet powerful concept we can apply across a wide spectrum of our lives. From a business perspective, companies are constantly enhancing data …
When You Need Options – We Have Them
By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel We’ve all been there before. You’re traveling, when all of the sudden you get a text that your flight is canceled. So, after moments of despair, the scrambling begins. If you do not use …
The Crystal Ball is Optimistic
By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel It truly has been an interesting last 20 months. In March 2020, the world was rocked with a pandemic that nearly brought interaction to a grinding halt. Thankfully, medical science and outstanding health professionals …
Is Managed Travel Right for You?
By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel I’ll be the first to admit that managed travel is not for every business or company. If your associates take relatively simple and infrequent trips, and if your annual air, hotel and rental car …
Just Different, but Still Valuable — and in Some Ways Better
By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel Uncertainty makes prognosticators out of us all. And when something has a wide and pervasive impact like Covid-19, it’s not difficult to let our minds wander about what the future might hold. There are …
Gazing into Crystal Ball: the Hotel RFP Process for 2022
By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel It’s deja vu all over again. At this time last year, businesses and travel management companies were facing uncertainty as they planned hotel programs for 2021. In response, most of the contractual arrangements were …