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Sunday, December 16, 2012

Choosing Corporate Travel Companies Over Vacation Travel Agencies

By May Anne Sawyer


You have every right to be carefree and forget about work if you're going on a vacation. But if you're going on a business trip, fun isn't a chief priority. It does not mean that you're not allowed to enjoy the trip, but it's crucial that you are on a work mode mindset because there's just so much at stake when you are representing your company in another country. That's why all travel concerns, including your air travel itineraries and hotels details, should be planned and executed faultlessly.

And as business travellers don't have as flexible a schedule as vacation travellers, they need the help of corporate travel companies that understand the demands of their trip. Their work demands that they meet schedule because a symposium that they're attending would begin on time whether or not they're already in the area and their prospective clients must not be kept waiting or they might lose their business.

A vacation tour company offers vacationers packages, normally jam-packed with tour activities. Their clients may choose the packages. But a corporate travel company builds a travel plan based on their client's schedule and specifications. They don't have a set package since every client's needs are different. Business travellers usually need multiple flight changes and stops on short notice, which indicates that the corporate travel agency should be alert at all times. They have to be ready to search for the most suitable substitute flight immediately if needed.

Complete service offered by a good business travel agency also includes assistance in passport, visa, and other travel documents applications. And more importantly, they should be capable of providing speedy and reliable 24-hour customer support. They must be able to help their clients regardless of the time since their clients frequently bump into emergencies and have to change a flight in the middle of the night.

These extra services are exactly why businesses prefer to hire business travel agencies rather than book the flights of their staff going on business trips themselves. Instead of taking care of all the logistic details, they would be spared of the hassle associated with booking flights and lodgings, and reserving other transportation services. It's not just convenient and time-saving to hire a travel agency, but also cost-effective.




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