Corporate
Travel Management has extended the functionality of its Lightning online
booking tool to address growing concerns about the environment from corporate
travel managers.
The company
has expanded its ‘Green Choice’ identifiers for flights, hotels and rail trips
to enable bookers to compare travel options on their total carbon cost side by
side.
A new
carbon calculator in the tool, which was named as best corporate booking
platform at the recent Business Travel Awards, will also allow customers
to set carbon budgets at company, country, departmental and individual levels.
The
company has also added European rail content to the tool.
“In the
last 18 months, expectations placed on business travel programmes and the
leaders who manage them have changed like no time before. The combined effects
of Covid-19 on traveller safety, a greater focus on truly sustainable travel,
and reduced travel budgets mean that travel buyers have a new balancing act to
learn as the world opens up again,” said Brian Sheerin, CTO EMEA for CTM. “The new tools we are launching give travel managers
what they need for what’s next in business travel and give travellers what they
need to make informed decisions around sustainable travel.”