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Corp Travel Buyers Have a Hard Time Keeping Programs Simple

Andrew Sheivachman
Atlanta International Airport atrium

Photo Credit: Hartfield-Jackson (ATL) hosted its first Passenger Earth Day Celebration in the domestic terminal atrium. The event featured live music, environmentally friendly gifts, coloring books and crafts for children, and a 10-foot globe, which was on display throughout the day. Flickr / Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

Skift Take

Travel buyers know that simplifying their programs can lead to major benefits for their organization. Corporate travel, unfortunately, is anything but simple.

Building a corporate travel program entails building a variety of partnerships with both travel and technology companies. It should come as no surprise that reducing complexity is a priority for travel buyers, even if their companies don't look at things the same way. New research, however, finds that it's not just internal priorities that are preventing simpler travel programs from taking shape. The Simplifying Managed Travel 2020 report from ACTE and HRS polled 227 corporate travel buyers between September and October 2019 to discover how companies are working to simplify their travel offerings. Unsurprisingly, travel buyers are keen to make things simpler but face a number of organizational and technological roadblocks; 97 percent of buyers said more effective business travel programs support their compa

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