SOUTHLAKE, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 11, 2005–Travelocity Business(SM) today announced it has bolstered its travel reporting capabilities to provide corporations with more ways to easily access and analyze online travel data for more proactive travel management, that can help improve compliance to travel policy and increase online adoption rates.
Corporations now can choose from four different reporting packages to meet their diverse needs for managing critical travel data. The reporting packages allow corporations to create instant snapshots of travel activity from a variety of viewpoints online, 24 hours a day, with information as current as from the prior day. For added convenience, companies can select specific reports and schedule them to be compiled and delivered automatically at a desired frequency to anyone within the company.
“Gone are the days when corporations had to wait weeks or months for travel data,” said Scott Hyden, general manager of Travelocity Business. “Companies using our new reporting packages now have access to a wide range of relevant travel data that can empower them to make more timely decisions and dramatically impact the success of their travel programs.”
As part of its overall service offering, Travelocity Business has always provided customers with online access to a standard number of the most popular reports for analyzing travel data, such as air, car and hotel spend and policy compliance. New capabilities available within the enhanced reporting offerings include:
-- Security reports - Provide companies with instant access to
employee travel bookings and contact information, 24 hours a
day. A recent survey conducted in part by Travelocity Business
indicated that 86 percent of senior executives have continued
concerns about the ability to identify employees' whereabouts
when traveling on company business.
-- Hierarchical reports - Allow companies to easily track online
travel percentages by business unit and even drill down to
individual travelers to pinpoint travel patterns. Companies
often publicize divisional travel data as a best practice to
create healthy competition among groups and to motivate them
to book more trips online, thereby increasing overall
adoption.
-- Unused ticket reports - Help companies track, manage and
recoup the value of outstanding tickets. Also provides
companies with improved data to better negotiate with
suppliers. Reports include passenger and carrier names, ticket
numbers and amounts, and ticket issue and expiration dates.
-- Credit card reconciliation reports - Automatically display all
credit card matches and discrepancies for travel bookings,
saving travel managers weeks of time reconciling different
reports, and enabling them to manage compliance levels and
protect against fraud.
-- Consolidated data reports - Advanced feature that enables
companies to consolidate historical travel data with current
travel statistics for trending and analysis. Also consolidates
current travel data across multiple fulfillment centers,
countries, and currencies to provide corporations with a truly
consolidated, global view of their travel activity and spend.
-- External data feed - New advanced reporting capability that
allows companies to automatically feed pertinent reports to
third parties in compliance with pre-negotiated travel
agreements.
The different reporting packages supply varying levels of access to new reports that are from a library of more than 100 reporting options created by Travelocity Business and based on reporting metrics used in the most successful corporate travel programs. The four reporting packages now available to Travelocity Business customers include:
-- Standard Reporting - Available to all customers as part of
overall service offering; includes 27 most popular reports,
such as analysis of travel spend, supplier share and policy
access.
-- Standard Reporting Plus - Includes flexibility to add five
additional reports chosen from a library of travel reports,
and two security reports for traveler tracking.
-- Advanced Reporting - Includes 10 additional reports, a unique
dashboard report, credit card reconciliation report, and the
ability to drill down into a more detailed view of the data.
Reports can also be automatically sent to third parties
requiring corporate travel data as part of negotiated
contracts.
-- Advanced Reporting Plus - Provides multiple user access to a
library of more than 100 reports, and allows for creation of
new reports. Also provides customized services for report and
data feed configuration and corporate hierarchy support for
analyzing data at any level within the company's organization.
All reports can be delivered in PDF format for formal distribution, or in spreadsheet format as a working copy.
About Travelocity Business
Travelocity Business is a full-service corporate travel agency that helps companies easily manage travel and reduce costs, while providing more choices to travelers. Travelocity Business combines the savings and convenience of online with the full service of dedicated agents available 24/7 who typically answer the phone in 20 seconds, and within 60 seconds guaranteed (see site for guarantee details). Companies can cut travel costs through flight deals, Web fares, hotel discounts and service fee savings — representing an average savings of more than $100 per trip, including airfare savings averaging 26 percent per ticket and service fee savings of up to 84 percent (see site for savings details).
Travelocity Business combines the expertise, service and travel choices of Travelocity(R) with corporate experience gained from serving more than half of the Fortune 200 companies. For more information, companies can visit www.travelocitybusiness.com.
Sabre Holdings Corporation (NYSE:TSG) is a world leader in travel commerce, retailing travel products and providing distribution and technology solutions for the travel industry. More information about Sabre Holdings is available at http://www.sabre-holdings.com.
CONTACT: Vollmer Public Relations
Kristi Manning, 972-488-4790
kristi@vollmerpr.com
or
Travelocity Business
Noel Bilodeau, 415-932-1292
noel.bilodeau@travelocity.com
SOURCE: Travelocity Business
