Business Travel

Travel Industry Roundup | November 11

November 11, 2016 by Rocketrip Admin

This week’s round up focuses on Airbnb. The world’s second most valuable startup has grown into one of the biggest players in travel accommodation. But that growth has come quickly, before the legal status of short-term apartment rentals could be settled. Now, as new research shows just how prevalent Airbnb use has become, the company…

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How to Increase Online Booking Tool Adoption

November 10, 2016 by Rocketrip Admin

An online booking tool (OBT) is an essential component of any modern managed travel program. OBTs offer companies a way to increase policy compliance and decrease transaction fees. However, these potential benefits will go unrealized if employees don't use the designated OBT when arranging their business trips.

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Travel Industry Roundup | November 4

November 4, 2016 by Rocketrip Admin

In this week's roundup, we take a look at three surveys that reveal a little bit about business traveler preferences.

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An Introduction to Online Booking Tools for Corporate Travel

November 3, 2016 by Rocketrip Admin

A study from Microsoft found that U.S. workers use their computers for an average of seven hours a day. That’s more time than they devote to any other activity, including sleeping. If your job requires you to travel, chances are that some of that computer time is taken up by planning business trips.

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Ways to Reduce Business Travel Expenses

November 1, 2016 by Rocketrip Admin

Rocketrip has put together several resources that will help finance managers, HR managers, and other key stakeholders understand and improve the performance of their employee travel programs.

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Travel Industry Roundup | October 28

October 28, 2016 by Rocketrip Admin

Kids today, right? What, with their constant texting, and loud music, and higher than average frequency of business travel. More on that - flight delays and corporate travel data systems too - in this week’s roundup.

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Why Corporate Travel Management Has to Put Travelers First

October 26, 2016 by Rocketrip Admin

Business travelers are people too. That, in so many words, is the key recognition of an “employee-centric” approach to corporate travel. Employee-centricity places user experience at the center of travel management, and holds that systems should be designed around people’s observed travel behavior. It’s an acknowledgement that since everyone has distinct preferences and deep-set habits when…

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