Regardless of your industry, every aspect of your business requires careful planning, organizing, and analysis. Business travel is a significant part of this – it involves much more than booking flights and making basic travel arrangements. From managing logistics and travel expenses to monitoring your travelers spend, building a strong corporate travel program isn’t just about getting from A to B – it’s about establishing a solid platform for the overall growth of your business.

A well-executed program helps make sure your business travelers are safe, by providing them with personalized travel options that allow travelers easy booking and planning options right from their desks or mobile apps.

In addition, a managed travel program should also provide you with the insight, travel solutions, and technology to optimize your program for compliance, traveler care responsibilities, traveler safety, and reducing travel risk – plus time and cost-saving opportunities.

Step into a winning partnership

Investing in the technology and resources of a managed travel program allows your employees to focus on your growing business, not their travel plans.

At American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT), we can help you simplify your business travel by providing:

• Tools to create a travel policy that meets your business’ ROI goalsby monitoring and forecasting travel spend for tighter expense management. A well-crafted policy also helps you increase compliance — and when compliance goes up, costs go down.
• Potential savings from the start. Your booking platform offers access to some of the best rates on flights, hotels, and car rentals so you can find the best options to fit your budget.
• Risk management tools that provide peace of mind, can help you prevent and assess safety threats in real-time, and communicate risk to travelers alongside on-demand assistance and 24/7 travel assistance.
• Data visualization dashboards streamline expense monitoring, reconciliation, and reporting while providing easy access to view and book sustainable trip options with clear emission insights.

The benefits of software and technology

When it comes to managing travel, technology matters, which holds true in the workplace today as much as it does in your personal life. Booking your business trips via your online booking tool should be as frictionless as booking a vacation. With over 100+ years in business travel¹ and $1.6B+² investment in travel technology, we understand this. We built the technology we use for business travel management, allowing us to innovate quickly and deliver a complete and seamless end-to-end travel experience, created around your specific needs.

Amex GBT assists in meeting your needs by helping you create and manage a successful corporate travel program. Easily manage traveler profiles, payment options, and travel policies, or use our risk management tools to help locate business travelers should an emergency arise – 24/7.

With all resources in one place, the approval process is simplified. You won’t need multiple booking tools or complex approvals. Plus, you can update company policies and get approvals from anywhere, on any device.

What role does travel data play?

An abundance of business travel data fuels our technology. Machine learning uses what we know about corporate travel policies, booking histories, property preferences, travel industry benchmarks, and other information to create compelling, relevant travel choices. Travelers can find in-policy options at the top of their search, making policy compliance easy, encouraging traveler satisfaction, and managing travel costs.

So why Amex GBT?

Simply put, we’re here to help you streamline. Smart travel management services should help you gain efficiency in your travel program, save time and money, take care of your travelers, get around-the-clock customer support, and provide you with actionable data. That’s the business travel experience your growing business deserves. And if you’re reading this, you’re ready for it, too.

¹ American Express Global Business Travel Internal Reporting.
² Based on American Express Global Business Travel Internal reporting, 2023.