Waypoint Business Travel Blog

As a travel manager, you need to be streamlined, efficient and organized to ensure your company’s travel stays within budget and that each trip furthers your company’s goals. One thing that can make all that easier? Convince your boss to invest in business travel software. Business travel technologies make navigating travel management easier and moreRead more

Dressing for business travel — especially for conferences and trade shows — can be difficult. On the one hand, you want to look your best professional self. On the other hand, you want to be comfortable. While your go-to meeting outfit may be a no-brainer for Zoom calls, quick work lunches or sitting at aRead more

If your organization isn’t quite large enough for managed travel yet (or if that’s just not a priority investment for executives at the moment), you may find yourself instructed to simply manage travel yourself. If that’s your case, here’s what you’ll need to ensure the best travel experience possible for both yourself and your team.Read more

When you talk business travel transportation options, you’ll likely hear all about air travel. However, don’t overlook ground transportation and all the benefits it offers your Travelers — particularly when you take top ground transportation trend data into account. What are the next ground transportation trends that will likely impact your Travelers in the comingRead more

As a Travel Manager or Arranger, you likely already know that air sales in the NDC era are an entirely new ballgame. While NDC should mean easier booking and better Traveler experiences, wider adoption has shown that NDC isn’t flawless. Here’s the latest on navigating air sales in the NDC era. Plus, get a quickRead more

When business Travelers book out-of-policy, it can result in a variety of negative consequences — which is why it’s oh-so-important that you educate your Travelers on what it means when they do so and why compliance matters.  As a Travel Manager or Arranger, you already know that when a Traveler books outside of the mandatedRead more

If you’re a small to mid-sized business, you may have managed your travel on your own with no issues for a time. However, now you’re scaling up and you’ve realized you need to get help managing travel, and fast. In order to get help managing travel don’t think that you can avoid headaches by simplyRead more

Business travel is, for most organizations, vital to growing revenue and maintaining client relationships. However, you want to ensure that your business travel isn’t costing more than it brings in. That’s why regularly measuring the effectiveness of your business travel program is extremely important. Not sure what data or KPIs you need to look at,Read more

If you’re a growing company, you may have arranged your employees’ travel internally up until this point, without feeling the need to invest in managed travel. However, there comes a point in most organizations’ scaling process, at which the company’s business travel just becomes, frankly, unmanageable. Whether it’s employees booking travel at whim, budgets beingRead more