The role of travel managers: All that glitters is not gold

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Although they are gaining recognition, the majority of travel managers feel they have too many responsibilities and too few rights. They want more freedom and power to impose sanctions.

Which news about travel managers do you want first – the good or the bad?

Let’s start with the good news: companies are appreciating their travel managers more and more. One out of every two of the 1,500 travel managers surveyed in the latest AirPlus International Travel Management Study believes that their position will gain importance in the coming years.

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Travel managers in 2009: Cut costs, support business travelers

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Tags: travel costs, Travel Management Study, travel manager

All we need is savings – from a cursory look at a study on expectations from travel managers for the upcoming year, you could get the impression that this is true. But take a closer look, and several new trends become apparent.

Travel managers are split beings. That at least is the impression you could get from reading the results of a study about the assumptions and expectations for the upcoming year: they have to give highest priority to costs savings, and yet a quarter of travel managers have no specific policy in the areas of flights, overnights, rental cars or train travel

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The future of travel management: Costs are still in a steady climb

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Tags: Future, new markets, travel costs, Travel Management Study

Travel managers expect travel costs to rise again next year. In particular, new destinations for business travelers will lead to more expensive flights: while short and mid-haul flights are cutting costs, the number of expensive long-haul flights is increasing.

A rough generalization would be: “Things will remain the same – travel costs will continue to climb in 2009″. Around 60% of travel managers expect a rise in costs, above all in the particularly cost-intensive areas of flight and overnight stays.

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