SMBs: Disadvantages of booking through business travel intermediaries

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Booking business trips can be done through different ways and platforms. For each, you have pros and cons. However, being dependent on business travel intermediaries can be time and money-consuming. 

Do you know that 87% of business travellers and corporate travel managers want a more simplified booking process? 42% of them think booking a trip is actually more challenging than travelling itself.

Here are why you should be autonomous in booking your company’s corporate travel;

1. You don’t have direct control over your timeline

To start with, if you are an office manager, working with business travel intermediaries such as travel agents will add an extra step for each action that you may want to do on your travellers’ itineraries. To explain more, you should call or email your travel agent each time you need to modify or cancel a reservation. Having no direct control over the booking will be complicated if you have different employees that need to travel to different destinations and for different reasons.

Using our business travel aggregator, you won’t need a third person to book for your team. We allow you to have access to each employee’s travel itinerary to manage the business trips. Besides, we give you the opportunity to let travellers book and manage their trips by themselves using our mobile application Ayruu. Both ways, you will still have control and visibility over the employee’s bookings.

Using Ayruu, booking cancellation is just one click. We make sure to provide office managers and business travellers with full visibility and flexibility over the trip. A flexible trip results in a better travel experience. Do you want to have a look at our solution? We offer a free discovery meeting and a free demo here.

2. More intermediaries mean extra fees

Booking company trips through business travel intermediaries will result in constant fees and expenses. Business travel is back and contributes a lot to the success of small to medium size businesses. Imagine paying extra fees for each business booking or for each employee.

We help you reduce your business travel budget by giving you direct connections with travel suppliers. We don’t take any commission on your bookings. Ayruu disposes of a very large inventory of transport, accommodation, and mobility suppliers. As a result, you are free to choose the offers that best suit your budget. Moreover, you can filter and limit the results according to your travel policy.

We encourage our clients to limit travel intermediaries by calling out the newest technologies that are time and money-saving solutions for small and medium businesses.

3. You can’t easily integrate your negotiated rates

utting extra persons between your company and the travel suppliers might prevent you from using your negotiated rates with the suppliers. We recommend being connected directly to the suppliers to apply all the advantages that you have with them.

Our solution allows you to integrate your advantages once and then profit from the negotiated prices for the rest of your contract. Have a look at our three pricing packages right here.

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