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• 2025 Business Travel Trends: What to Expect This Year
  Every year seems to bring new business travel trends. We’ve had sustainable business travel, bleisure travel and new travel tech. What can you expect in the year ahead? These are the expert-predicted 2025 business travel trends to have on your radar.  As a Travel Manager, it’s key that you stay up to date on allRead […]
• Is Smart Travel Technology the Key to Effective Spend Management?
  As travel spending increases, many Travel Managers and Arrangers are looking for new methods of effective spend management. Could investing in smart travel technology be the answer they’re looking for?  If you’re a Travel Manager, Arranger or Executive within an SME, then you’ve probably noticed the increasing costs of business travel over the last year.Read […]
• 7 Tips for Packing Light for Long-Haul Flights
  When you’re traveling a long distance or taking a long-haul flight, don’t make the mistake of overestimating what you’ll actually need. Use these 7 tips for packing light, and you could get by with nothing more than a carry-on.  Traveling long distances and taking long-haul flights comes with some unique stressors. You’re on a planeRead […]
• Managing Business Traveler Demands: What SMEs Need
  The travel landscape has changed dramatically over the last several years. Are you serving your business Traveler’s current needs? Here’s how to begin better managing business Traveler demands in 2025. As a small or mid-sized enterprise, you have unique business travel needs and equally unique business Travelers. It’s likely that you’re also spending more onRead […]
• REAL ID Act Requirements Update (December 2024)
  The REAL ID initiative has been in the works for nearly two decades. But it’s still not entirely rolled out. Is 2025 the year we finally adopt REAL IDs? And will you be impacted? Here’s what you need to know about REAL ID Act requirements and deadlines. The REAL ID Act was passed in 2005.Read […]
• Maximize AI to Transform Your Business Travel Program 
  Could AI make your Business Travel Experience more effective, efficient and affordable? Here’s how to maximize AI to take your business travel program to the next level. There’s a lot of chatter around AI at the moment. Yes, ChatGPT may be relatively old news at this point. However, there’s still a lot of talk aboutRead […]
• Per Diem Rates in 2025: What to Expect
  Planning your budget around global per diem rates in 2025? Here’s what you can expect based on the latest government per diem rate guidelines and recent international travel cost data. While, yes — at least in the United States — private companies can set their own per diem rates, many choose to follow the U.S.Read […]
• Hidden Ways to Better Budget for Business Travel (Are Annual Fees Right for You?)
  As business travel spending soars, you’re probably wondering how to best budget for business travel in the months ahead. Here are a few of the ways to save that you might be overlooking, including opting for an annual management fee. Have you been seeing your team’s business travel expenses slowly creeping upwards? Or maybe theRead […]