Travel technology provider Amadeus, has enhanced its corporate self-booking tool, e-Travel Management, with increased functionality to make arranging travel more personal and streamlined.
Amadeus aims to limit the time spent making travel arrangements by providing a single interface from which corporates can build a complete itinerary, rather than have to visit the website of each provider separately and enter their details multiple times.
Version 10.2 includes a section where travel managers can give users access to external local providers within the company”s travel policy, such as restaurants, car services and independent hotels from a specific area.
Similarly, travel managers can use a new ”Vendor Exclusion Wizard” to exclude up to 50 providers from a travel programme which do not conform to the company”s management, environment or corporate social responsibility policies, in order to make the self-booking tool personal to the business.
A new auto-complete function gives a predicted list of cities, airports or rail stations from which to select and the company has also added search-by-arrival-time when booking flights to help travellers arrange their itinerary more efficiently.
Environmentally conscious companies can also add direct links to preferred carbon management suppliers and help ensure employees offset their business travel. Managers can also keep track of the number of purchased air tickets that are left unused, providing an opportunity to see the rate of travel policy adoption and assess the viability of pre-paid fares.
”This latest version of Amadeus e-Travel Management is the next step forward in helping to make the booking process a far more ”tailor-made”, improved travel experience,” said director of corporate & distribution channels, Marcos Isaac.
”Access to many different local and external services for users makes the overall experience far more bespoke and therefore helps to drive up adoption rates. Through the unused ticket indicator, companies might also choose to re-evaluate whether the booking of non-refundable tickets makes financial sense.”