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Using your business objectives as a starting point, we focus on the larger goals of your company:  Cost optimization and the highest possible return on your travel investment.  We help you manage your travel expenses and leverage your overall spend for a strategy that fits your company – now and in the future.

Travel management is about much more than travel fulfillment.  Your travel patterns and dynamic needs, combined with your overall budget and anticipated growth, will affect how you best utilize your resources and suppliers.  We help you establish those relationships, negotiate rates, and secure contracts. 

Consolidating your travel with professional management pays off in more than the bottom line; there’s no price tag you can place on Peace of Mind.

Benefits of Consolidating Your Travel

Increased purchasing power

The evolving travel industry has created new opportunities for smaller corporate accounts to obtain negotiated rates.  Airlines are more willing to offer discounts on specific city-pair combinations than ever before, provided that your company is able to do two things: 

• Produce reports showing your top city-pairs, including total dollar volume for each pair and the carriers flown. 

• Have an enforceable travel policy in place that permits you to shift market share to earn greater discounts.  Carlson Wagonlit Travel provides timely travel reports and advice on creating and enforcing a company-wide travel policy.

Maximize rewards programs

Many of the major airlines have implemented corporate rewards programs that provide free tickets, upgrade certificates and frequent flyer status if a modest dollar volume of air travel is achieved.  The only way to consistently hit dollar volume targets is to consolidate your travel.  To be counted towards the rewards goal, each ticket must have a special code that can only be entered by your Carlson Wagonlit Travel agent.

Improved travel expense budgeting

Carlson Wagonlit Travel will provide you with timely reports that clearly and concisely show you where your travel dollars are being spent.  You will also receive recommendations on how to further reduce expenses based on your travel patterns and needs.  This information will greatly assist management in planning future travel budgets and better allocate corporate resources.  Additionally, if there is a billing question, you only have to call one location, Carlson Wagonlit Travel, for prompt resolution.

Improved service from travel vendors

Travel vendors are in a position to grant “waivers and favors” to corporate accounts that have demonstrated an ability to consolidate travel spending and move market share.  In the event that a problem arises, you, with the assistance of Carlson Wagonlit Travel, will be in a better position to resolve the issue quickly and favorably.

Improved control over travel expenses

Establishing and enforcing a corporate travel policy through Carlson Wagonlit Travel, positions your company to implement travel practices, such as “best fare”, that reduce expenses.  Consolidation also minimizes time spent in reconciling expense reports.

Company wide access to the STAR Program 

Our clients receive unparalleled levels of service, enhanced by leading-edge technology, backed by state-of-the-art reporting systems and management programs that ensure accountability.  The resources made available to us by our global network of travel offices and vendor relationships allow us to offer unmatched leverage in the marketplace.  The STAR Program equates to greater savings for our clients- not just in money, but in time as well.  Together, you will find that these individual benefits merge to create a whole that is far greater than the sum of the parts.  That means total satisfaction for our clients!  That is the power of the STAR Program.

You show your employees that you have their best interest at heart by choosing Carlson Wagonlit Travel as your travel management company to provide consistent service and savings.