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Discover the benefits of automating travel reservations with Egencia, a cost-effective solution offering efficient booking processes, various payment options, and expert travel consultants available 24/7. Lower costs and enhance your travel experience today!
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Overview • Business reasons for automating travel reservations • Why Egencia? • How you will help in lowering costs • Egencia’s more efficient booking process • Forms of payment • Call an Egencia Travel Consultant
Business Reasons To Automate Reservations • Travel reservation services are expensive • Agent labor is one of the highest cost components • Most travelers prefer to make self-service reservations via the Web • Travel suppliers are bypassing traditional reservations processes to reduce their distribution costs • Most sites display an array of pricing including Web rates
Why Egencia? • Familiar, easy-to-use online booking tool: Egencia leverages the same intuitive look and feel of sister company, Expedia.com with travel options and tools designed specifically for the business traveler. • Business traveler tools: store your frequent flyer numbers and travel preferences, manage your unused tickets or easily plan a group trip with colleagues. • Flight status alerts sent right to your mobile: keep on top of the latest information impacting your business travel, including flight delays and gate changes. Alerts can also be used to inform a colleague or loved one of your up-to-date arrival time. • Information to keep you safe on the road: enables your travel manager to notify you of any potential issues or locate you in an emergency. • Support when you need It: experienced corporate travel agents available 24x7
How you will help lower costs • By booking and/or changing your airline, hotel, and rental car reservations on Egencia • Lower agent fees • More flights and fare choices • By spending less work time shopping and comparing rates • Average reservation completion time is under 4 minutes
Travel Agency Previous Booking Process GDS Standard Supplier Inventory Web Fares • Expensive for company • Expensive for suppliers • Limits scope of fare search • Impossible to view all options
Web Fares Direct-negotiated inventory GDS Egencia Booking Process Egencia Inventory Egencia Travel Consultants Negotiated Rates Egencia Web Site • Available 24/7 • Consistent view of data • See 100’s of options • Incorporates web, direct negotiated, GDS and company negotiated rates
Forms of Payment • All airline charges are applied to our company’s Direct Billing Account unless the supplier, for any reason, requires your individual credit card number • Your individual credit card number is stored in My Profile for Egencia Preferred Rate hotel purchases or to guarantee a hotel or rental car
Call an Egencia Travel Consultant • Egencia Travel Consultants available 24/7 • Travel Consultants make or change air, car and hotel bookings – agent fee applies • Utilize Travel Consultant expertise for complex itineraries, International bookings and upgrades – Travel Consultant fee applies • No charge for web site support, information and assistance