The Routespring Blog
Insights on business travel, cost control, traveler guides, and more.
Cost Control
Cost-cutting in business travel often leads to frustrated employees. This guide shows you how to save money the smart way, by improving the traveler experience and increasing efficiency, not by making your team miserable.
Cost Control
This isn't about just cutting costs; it's about smart savings. Our playbook provides a complete, strategic guide to building a travel program that is both cost-effective and traveler-friendly, delivering real, sustainable savings.
Cost Control
This guide provides proven, actionable strategies for saving money on business travel. From automating policies to leveraging data, learn how to cut costs without compromising your business goals or frustrating your travelers.
Cost Control
Tired of travel policies that nobody follows and budgets that are always overspent? This guide cuts through the noise and provides a battle-tested set of corporate travel savings strategies that deliver real, measurable results.
Travel Management
Compliance is the backbone of a managed travel program. This guide breaks down the essential rules of business travel compliance, covering everything from booking and approvals to expenses and duty of care.
Travel Management
Compliance is the bedrock of a successful travel program. This comprehensive guide provides companies with a clear framework for establishing and maintaining compliance across finance, risk, and operations.
Expense & Cost Control
This guide provides a CFO's-eye-view of the top expense management software for 2026, focusing on the platforms that deliver the best financial controls, accounting integration, and automation for your finance team.
Expense & Cost Control
A slow, manual reimbursement process is a major drag on morale and productivity. This guide outlines the anatomy of a truly best-in-class reimbursement process, one that is fast, automated, and effortless for everyone involved.
Expense & Cost Control
Receipt management is the biggest headache in expense reporting. This guide explains what a truly superior receipt management process looks like, from AI-powered scanning to automated matching and a fully digital audit trail.
Expense & Cost Control
Is your expense policy out of date? This guide provides the latest benchmarks for key expense policy items like meal per diems, hotel caps, and booking windows, helping you build a policy that is both competitive and cost-effective.
Expense & Cost Control
A great expense policy is the foundation of financial control. This guide breaks down the essential elements of the 'best' expense policy, one that is clear, fair, automated, and built for the modern workforce.
Expense & Cost Control
What does a truly superior expense management process look like? It's not about better spreadsheets. It's about a fully automated, 'touchless' workflow that eliminates manual work and provides perfect, real-time data. Here's how it works.
Expense & Cost Control
The best way to control spending is to approve it before it happens. This guide explores the critical importance of pre-approval workflows and highlights the expense management tools that do it best.
Industry Insights
The T&E industry is in a state of flux, with legacy giants, fintech disruptors, and unified platforms all competing for market leadership. We break down the key players and analyze who is best positioned to lead the industry into the future.
Expense & Cost Control
The world of expense management is evolving fast. We're breaking down the best solutions for 2026, focusing on the platforms that deliver true automation, real-time control, and a user experience that your team will actually love.
Travel Management
From real-time scheduling updates to automated IROP re-booking, discover how technology is revolutionizing airline crew travel management.
Expense & Cost Control
The T&E software landscape is crowded. We're cutting through the noise to identify the top expense management companies for 2026, comparing the legacy giants, the fintech disruptors, and the true all-in-one platforms.
Travel Management
Managing crew travel is a unique challenge. This guide covers the best practices for handling IROPs, hotels, and logistics to keep your airline running smoothly and your crews happy.
Travel Management
From real-time scheduling updates to automated IROP re-booking, discover how technology is revolutionizing airline crew travel management.
Airlines
For large airlines, managing crew travel is a massive-scale logistical operation with unique challenges. This guide covers the key strategies for managing enterprise crew travel, from global hotel sourcing to complex IROP recovery.
Airlines
Manual coordination between crew scheduling and travel booking is a major bottleneck. This guide explores how direct system integration can automate the entire process, driving efficiency and reducing operational risk.
Travel Management
For manufacturing companies, field service travel is a mission-critical function. This guide explores the key strategies and technologies used to optimize travel for service technicians, ensuring speed, efficiency, and cost control.
Travel Management
Employee safety is a company's most critical responsibility. This guide outlines a comprehensive approach to strengthening your Duty of Care through a robust travel risk management program.
Travel Management
Flight cancellations, medical issues, and security incidents are an unfortunate reality of travel. This guide provides a strategic framework for managing travel disruptions and emergencies effectively, fulfilling your Duty of Care.
Travel Management
A corporate retreat is a powerful tool for team development, but it requires meticulous planning. This guide provides a step by step framework for planning a successful and impactful retreat.
Airlines
Managing travel for flight crews requires a highly specialized set of tools that go far beyond a standard corporate booking platform. This guide outlines the essential, advanced features needed to manage crew travel effectively.
Airlines
Your crew scheduling team is working at lightning speed, but your travel booking process is a manual bottleneck. This is the crew scheduling crisis, and it's a sign your travel platform is failing your operation.
Expense & Cost Control
Batch processing and manual data entry are relics of the past. This guide explores how a real-time expense sync between your travel and finance systems can provide unparalleled speed, accuracy, and visibility for your T&E data.
Expense & Cost Control
Choosing a T&E platform with the right integrations is critical. This guide provides a compatibility matrix of top travel and expense platforms and the accounting/ERP systems they connect with, helping you build a seamless tech stack.
Expense & Cost Control
Manually entering expense data into your accounting system is a major source of inefficiency. This guide explains how to automate the process by syncing your expense management platform with your accounting software.
Technology
A curated list of the must-have mobile apps for today's business traveler. We cover everything from integrated T&E platforms to essential tools for navigation, communication, and on-the-go productivity.
Traveler Guides
The best corporate travel app is one your employees actually want to use. We explore the key features that create a positive traveler experience, drive high adoption, and make a travel program successful.
Technology
Empowering employees with a self-booking tool is a cornerstone of modern travel management. This guide explores the benefits, key features, and implementation best practices for corporate online booking tools (OBTs).
Technology
A modern travel program is built on a stack of integrated technologies. This guide demystifies the corporate travel tech stack, explaining the essential components and how they should work together to create an efficient and controlled system.
Technology
Looking ahead, the business travel landscape will be defined by smarter, more integrated, and more personalized technology. This guide explores the top tech trends for 2026, from hyper-automation and AI to the future of NDC and sustainable travel tech.
Expense & Cost Control
As a CFO, your primary concerns are control, visibility, and ROI. This guide compares the leading travel management apps from a finance leader's perspective, focusing on the features that have a real impact on the bottom line.
Technology
Choosing the right travel management app is a critical decision. This guide provides a comprehensive framework for evaluating and selecting a platform that aligns with your company's needs for cost control, efficiency, and traveler satisfaction.
Technology
As your company grows, a dedicated business travel app becomes essential. This guide explains what a travel app does, why your growing business needs one, and what key features to look for in a solution that can scale with you.
Cost Control
Non-employee travel can be a major source of uncontrolled spending. This guide provides a strategic framework for managing and controlling the costs associated with contractors, consultants, and guest travelers.
Travel Management
Managing travel for contractors, candidates, and other guests is a complex but critical task. This guide outlines a smarter, modern approach to non-employee travel that improves the guest experience while providing robust control for your company.
Travel Management
A travel program can be a source of frustration or a powerful tool for employee engagement. This guide outlines how to design a program that boosts morale by focusing on trust, flexibility, and a great traveler experience.
Expense & Cost Control
You have a travel tool and an expense tool, but the gap between them is costing you a fortune in lost productivity and fraud. We'll show you how this 'integration gap' is where your travel budget disappears.
Expense & Cost Control
Your accounting team is on the front lines of T&E pain. We talked to them, and here's their wishlist for a travel management platform that actually makes their lives easier, not harder.
Airlines
Airlines sometimes try to manage crew travel using consumer booking sites or basic tools. This is a recipe for operational chaos. This guide breaks down why crew travel requires a specialized, industrial-strength solution.
Expense & Cost Control
You've got a travel platform and you've got accounting software. The gap between them is likely costing you tens of thousands of dollars in wasted time. We'll show you why this gap exists and how to fix it.
Expense & Cost Control
Real-time financial data is a competitive advantage, yet most companies' T&E data is weeks old. We explore the 'data lag' problem, why it's so costly, and how a truly integrated platform finally solves it.
Expense & Cost Control
You use QuickBooks for your books and a platform for travel. But if they don't talk, you're wasting hours on manual work. This is the practical guide to integrating your T&E platform with QuickBooks for a truly automated workflow.
Travel Management
We had a travel platform loaded with features, but our compliance was terrible. Then we did something radical: we started turning features off. Here's the story of how simplification led to massive improvements.
Travel Management
If your employees are booking travel outside your official platform, a slow and clunky approval process is likely the culprit. Here's why the approval workflow is the secret killer of adoption and how to fix it.
Traveler Guides
It's a paradox. Companies invest in powerful travel tech, but their employees are more frustrated than ever. We'll explore why a tech-only approach backfires and why the human element is still non-negotiable.
Travel Management
We were stuck with a legacy TMC that took 9 months to implement and delivered nothing but frustration. Here's the story of how we switched to a modern platform and got a fully functional, high-adoption travel program live in just two weeks.
Industry Insights
The big names in enterprise travel are losing their grip. We explore the quiet exodus of mid-market companies from complex, legacy TMCs and what they're looking for in a modern alternative.
Technology
You've assembled a 'best-of-breed' stack with a top booking tool and a top expense tool. So why is your T&E process still a mess? The answer lies in the gaps between your systems.
Industry Insights
There's a quiet but massive migration happening in corporate travel. Companies are leaving their legacy TMCs in droves, but they're not broadcasting it. We'll explore the 'silent switch' and the powerful motivations behind it.
Industry Insights
The big TMCs talk about service and global scale, but our deep analysis shows they're missing the single most important factor in a successful travel program. It's not what you think.
Industry Insights
The promise of an all-in-one platform is tempting, but many legacy systems are a mile wide and an inch deep. Here's why a new breed of truly integrated platforms is winning, offering the best of both worlds.
Cost Control
Most companies believe the key to controlling travel costs is to get a corporate discount from an airline. This is a myth. We'll reveal why this is the wrong focus and what your company should be doing instead to actually save money.
Industry Insights
The promise of a traditional TMC is one of control and savings. The reality is often a story of frustration, inefficiency, and regret. We're looking at the data that shows why the old model is failing and leaving its clients heartbroken.
Travel Management
There's a moment in every growing company's life when they realize the old way of managing travel is broken. This is the story of that 'crossroads moment' and why it's the catalyst for a more strategic approach to travel.
Cost Control
The sticker price of a legacy TMC can seem competitive, but the hidden costs of inefficiency and low adoption are enormous. We'll break down the 'Budget Balcony Effect' and show why a modern platform's total cost of ownership is far lower.
Cost Control
The single biggest driver of travel overspending is last-minute bookings. This guide explains the data behind the 'early booking advantage' and shows how forward-thinking companies use it to save thousands.
Travel Management
We were promised a world-class enterprise travel solution. We got a clunky, expensive, and frustrating system. So we decided to build our own. This is the story of why modern businesses need a different approach.
Industry Insights
The old model of corporate travel is broken. We're pulling back the curtain on why so many companies are finally ditching their traditional Travel Management Companies (TMCs) for something better.
Travel Management
Large enterprise TMCs often try to sell their complex, expensive solutions to mid-market companies. This is usually a mistake. Here's why the enterprise model fails for growing businesses and what they should look for instead.
Cost Control
Chasing a corporate discount from an airline can seem like the ultimate prize. But the reality of these deals is often far less attractive than it appears. We'll reveal what airlines don't tell you and what you should focus on instead.
Travel Management
You have a policy and a booking tool, but employees are still going rogue. The problem isn't just about a clunky interface; it's about a lack of perceived value. Here's the real reason for low adoption and how to fix it.
Travel Management
If your T&E costs are out of control, it's easy to blame your employees. But the real problem isn't your people; it's your process. A bad booking tool will always produce bad outcomes, no matter how good your policy is.
Travel Management
Everyone wants a 'frictionless' travel program. It's a great marketing buzzword, but the truth is that a completely seamless experience can lead to mindless spending. The key is 'intentional friction' and we'll explain why it's a better approach.
Cost Control
Companies try to control travel costs by focusing on luxury hotels and business class flights. Our data from 10,000 real business trips reveals this is a mistake. The real culprit is much simpler and far more costly.
Expense & Cost Control
Many companies use separate tools for travel and expenses, thinking they're getting the best of both worlds. We'll show why this seemingly logical choice is actually a hidden $50,000 mistake that's draining your productivity and cash.
Travel Management
A travel policy is meant to control costs and guide employees, but most fail spectacularly. We're breaking down the common reasons for failure and revealing the three core principles of policies that actually work.
Expense & Cost Control
The gap between booking travel and recording the expense in your accounting software is a major source of manual work. This guide explains how integrating these systems can create a seamless, automated financial workflow.
Travel Management
This guide explores specialized travel management solutions for the industrial and manufacturing sectors, focusing on crew logistics, project-based cost tracking, and managing travel to remote operational sites.
Travel Management
From managing service technician travel to coordinating supplier visits across the globe, this guide provides a complete framework for optimizing travel management in the complex and demanding manufacturing sector.
Travel Management
The activities you choose for your staff retreat are critical. This guide moves beyond the basics to provide creative, engaging, and purposeful activity ideas that are proven to build stronger, more collaborative, and more connected teams.
Traveler Guides
A great work retreat requires meticulous planning. This guide provides a complete, step-by-step roadmap for planning a successful retreat, from defining your goals and choosing a destination to managing logistics and measuring success.
Travel Management
The ideal retreat destination isn't one-size-fits-all. This guide explores how to choose a retreat location that aligns with your specific industry's culture, goals, and style, from tech startups to manufacturing firms.
Cost Control
A high-impact company retreat doesn't have to come with a high price tag. This guide provides a complete framework for planning a memorable and effective team offsite on a budget, from choosing affordable destinations to saving on food and activities.
Travel Management
Ditch the trust falls and awkward icebreakers. Here are 25 creative, engaging, and genuinely effective corporate retreat ideas that will build stronger teams, spark innovation, and boost morale.
Cost Control
A bleisure program is a powerful talent magnet. This guide provides a framework for measuring the ROI of your bleisure program by quantifying its impact on employee recruitment and retention, a critical C-suite metric.
Industry Insights
A bleisure program is more than a perk; it's a strategic investment with a clear ROI. This guide makes the business case for bleisure, focusing on its impact on talent retention, recruitment, and employee productivity.
Traveler Guides
A bleisure program is a powerful perk, but it must be designed with the employee experience in mind. This guide outlines how to build a program that is clear, flexible, and truly valuable to your team.
Travel Management
A clear bleisure policy is essential for managing blended travel. This guide provides a complete policy framework, covering expense management, duty of care, and approvals to help you build a program that works.
Travel Management
Choosing the right travel management platform is a critical decision. This guide provides a comprehensive framework for growing companies to evaluate and select a platform that will control costs, improve efficiency, and scale with their business.
Technology
The market is flooded with travel tech. This guide cuts through the noise to define the essential components of a modern business travel technology stack that delivers control, efficiency, and a great user experience.
Traveler Guides
From booking to boarding to budgeting, the right apps can make or break a business trip. Discover the essential mobile apps every corporate traveler needs to stay productive, organized, and stress-free on the road.
Industry Insights
The old model of corporate travel is broken. Discover the key reasons why companies are leaving traditional Travel Management Companies (TMCs) for modern, technology-first platforms that offer better efficiency, control, and user experience.
Cost Control
Investing in travel management tools isn't a cost—it's a high-return investment. Discover the 12 essential tools and features that deliver measurable ROI through cost savings, efficiency gains, and improved compliance.
Security
Your travel data is a treasure trove of sensitive information. This guide explains why enterprise-grade security is a non-negotiable requirement for your travel management platform and what key features to look for.
Travel Management
Moving from a decentralized, manual travel process to a centralized software platform is a transformational change. Discover how this shift can revolutionize your company's efficiency, financial control, and employee experience.
Travel Management
Traditional corporate travel software can take months to implement. This guide explores how modern, cloud-based solutions are designed for speed, allowing you to get your travel program up and running in weeks, not months.
Expense & Cost Control
Manual data entry from expense reports into your accounting software is a major bottleneck. This guide explains how direct integration can automate this process, saving time, eliminating errors, and providing real-time financial data.
Traveler Guides
For non-profits, every dollar counts. This guide provides a strategic framework for managing travel efficiently and cost-effectively, ensuring that more of your resources go directly to your mission.
Travel Management
From rising costs and risk management to traveler burnout, business travel is fraught with challenges. This guide identifies the top hurdles and provides strategic solutions to overcome them.
Traveler Guides
Jet lag is a major challenge for business travelers, and it's surrounded by misinformation. This guide debunks the top 4 myths about jet lag and provides science-backed tips to truly conquer it.
Travel Management
An inefficient travel program is a major drain on time and money. This guide outlines how to leverage automation and smart processes to make your travel management program faster, leaner, and more effective.
Industry Insights
The business travel landscape is being reshaped by powerful forces, from AI to sustainability. This guide explores the key trends and forecasts that will define the future of corporate travel management.
Cost Control
Looking to manage your business travel without a hefty price tag? This guide reviews the top 5 travel management software solutions that offer a robust free plan, perfect for startups and small businesses.
Industry Insights
Bleisure travel is more than a trend; it's a strategic tool for talent retention and employee well-being. This guide explores the rise of blended travel and how companies can embrace it.
Traveler Guides
The right mobile apps can transform a stressful business trip into a smooth and productive one. This guide highlights the 5 essential apps every business traveler should have on their phone.
Travel Management
Implementing a new travel management solution is a major strategic decision. This guide covers the key considerations, from stakeholder buy-in to technology integration, to ensure a smooth and successful rollout.
Traveler Guides
Travel disruptions are inevitable. A 24/7 expert support system is the critical safety net that turns a potential crisis into a managed event, ensuring traveler well-being and business continuity. Learn why it's a non-negotiable part of any modern travel program.
Security
Single Sign-On (SSO) is a critical feature for any corporate software, and travel management is no exception. Learn how SSO enhances security, simplifies the user experience, and streamlines IT administration for your travel program.
Travel Management
Managing crew travel is a complex, 24/7 operation. Learn how Routespring's specialized platform empowers crew services teams by automating bookings, centralizing data, and providing unparalleled control over IROP situations.
Cost Control
Unused airline tickets represent a huge source of wasted travel spend. This guide provides a comprehensive strategy for tracking, managing, and recovering the value of these forgotten assets.
Expense & Cost Control
Manual data entry is a major bottleneck in financial reporting. Learn how integrating your travel and expense platform with QuickBooks can automate your workflow, save time, and eliminate errors.
Travel Management
Business trips are a powerful opportunity for team bonding. This guide offers practical ideas for team-building activities that can be easily integrated into any business trip to boost morale and collaboration.
Traveler Guides
Employee well-being is not a soft perk; it's a critical component of a productive and sustainable travel program. This guide outlines how to prioritize traveler well-being to reduce burnout and improve performance.
Traveler Guides
Looking for the perfect spot for your next team offsite? Discover the top trending destinations for 2024 that offer a unique blend of inspiring work environments and unforgettable team-building experiences.
Travel Management
A valuable team retreat doesn't have to break the bank. Discover five creative, low-cost ideas for company offsites that deliver a high return on culture and collaboration without the high price tag.
Industry Insights
Stay ahead of the curve with this comprehensive overview of the top trends, the biggest challenges, and the most effective solutions shaping modern business travel management.
Traveler Guides
Tired of the same old conference hotels? Discover five unique and inspiring destinations in the US that are perfect for your next company retreat or team offsite.
Traveler Guides
Looking for the perfect spot for your next team offsite? Discover the top trending destinations for 2025 that offer a unique blend of inspiring work environments and unforgettable team-building experiences.
Industry Insights
Technology has fundamentally transformed every aspect of business travel, from booking and expense management to risk and sustainability. Discover the key technological shifts that are shaping the modern corporate travel program.
Industry Insights
Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing corporate travel, moving beyond simple chatbots to become sophisticated, personalized travel agents. Learn how AI is shaping the future of business travel booking.
Travel Management
Managing travel for airline crews is a uniquely complex challenge. Discover how modern automation and integrated platforms are revolutionizing crew travel, from IROP management to payroll integration.
Cost Control
Cutting travel costs doesn't have to mean red-eye flights and budget motels. Discover 10 strategic ways to significantly reduce your T&E spend while actually improving the travel experience for your team.
Expense & Cost Control
A slow and clunky reimbursement process is a major source of employee dissatisfaction. This guide provides a framework for creating an efficient, fair, and automated reimbursement workflow.
Travel Management
A modern TMC is more than a booking agent; it's a strategic partner. Learn how a TMC can deliver value across your entire organization, from cost savings to risk management.
Industry Insights
NDC is revolutionizing how airlines sell flights. This guide explains what New Distribution Capability means for you and your corporate travel program.
Expense & Cost Control
Expecting employees to pay out-of-pocket for business travel is inefficient and outdated. Learn how centralizing payments can transform your T&E process.
Travel Management
The role of a travel manager has evolved from a logistical coordinator to a strategic leader. Learn about the key responsibilities that define this critical corporate function.
Travel Management
Understanding and assessing travel risks before a trip is the most critical part of Duty of Care. This guide explains how to conduct a thorough risk assessment to protect your employees.
Travel Management
Effective travel planning is more than just booking tickets; it's a strategic process. This guide covers how to plan corporate travel to maximize efficiency, control costs, and ensure a seamless experience.
Expense & Cost Control
Manual expense reports are a drain on time and resources. This guide reviews the top 10 software tools that automate and streamline the expense reporting and reimbursement process, from mobile receipt capture to accounting integration.
Travel Management
From rising costs and risk management to traveler burnout, business travel is fraught with challenges. This guide identifies the top 10 hurdles and provides strategic solutions to overcome them.
Industry Insights
The corporate travel landscape is evolving at a rapid pace. This guide delves into the top 10 key trends shaping the industry in 2025, from the rise of bleisure travel to the critical focus on sustainability and AI-powered technology.
Travel Management
A slow approval process is a major source of cost and frustration in a travel program. This guide provides the top 10 strategies for optimizing your approval workflows to make them faster, smarter, and more efficient.
Travel Management
Effective leadership is not one-size-fits-all. This guide explores the top 10 leadership styles, from autocratic to transformational, and explains when and how to apply them to lead your team to success.
Travel Management
The success of a corporate retreat often hinges on the quality of its team-building activities. This guide provides 10 creative, engaging, and impactful ideas to foster collaboration, boost morale, and make your next retreat a memorable success.
Cost Control
Looking to cut your T&E budget without grounding your team? This guide provides the top 10 most effective, actionable tips for strategically reducing your business travel costs.
Travel Management
From significant cost savings and enhanced safety to improved productivity, discover the top 10 benefits of implementing a travel management software platform for your business.
Travel Management
Move beyond simple booking and transform your travel program into a strategic asset. This guide outlines the top 10 strategies for building a truly effective corporate travel management program that saves money, enhances safety, and improves employee satisfaction.
Expense & Cost Control
Choosing the right expense management tool is critical for efficiency and control. This guide reviews the top 10 solutions, from integrated platforms to standalone apps, helping you find the perfect fit for your business.
Travel Management
A one-size-fits-all leadership style doesn't work for a diverse team on a business trip. This guide explains how to adapt your management style to the different needs, personalities, and experience levels of your traveling team.
Travel Management
Finding the balance between providing guidance and giving autonomy is a leader's greatest challenge. This guide provides a framework for how to balance micromanagement and empowerment to get the best results from your traveling team.
Travel Management
Servant leadership flips the traditional pyramid, putting the needs of the team first. This guide explores the principles of servant leadership and how to apply them to create a supportive and high-performing culture on business trips.
Travel Management
A participative management style involves the team in the decision-making process. This guide explores the significant benefits of this collaborative approach, especially in the context of a team business trip.
Travel Management
A coaching leadership style focuses on developing your team's skills and potential. This guide explores how to apply a coaching approach during business travel to turn every trip into a powerful learning and development opportunity.
Travel Management
Transformational leadership inspires teams to achieve extraordinary outcomes. This guide explores the four core components of this powerful style and how to apply them to lead your team to success on a business trip.
Travel Management
The modern workplace, especially during business travel, is too dynamic for a single leadership style. This guide explores the concept of adaptive management and how to apply it to lead your traveling teams effectively.
Travel Management
Effective leadership on the road is a learned skill. This guide provides a framework for identifying your natural leadership style and practical steps for developing a more adaptive and effective approach to leading traveling teams.
Travel Management
Should you command or collaborate? This article breaks down the pros and cons of autocratic and democratic leadership styles in the specific context of managing a business trip, helping you choose the right approach for the right situation.
Travel Management
A manager's leadership style is a critical factor in the success of a business trip. This guide explores how different management styles, from autocratic to democratic, affect a traveling team's performance, morale, and outcomes.
Travel Management
A business trip is a prime opportunity to strengthen team bonds. This guide provides best practices for effectively mixing business objectives with team-building activities to maximize the value of your team's time on the road.
Travel Management
Employee engagement and retention are critical for business success. This guide explores how strategic team outings can be a powerful tool for building a more engaged, satisfied, and loyal workforce.
Travel Management
Team retreats are not a vacation; they are a strategic investment in a company's most important assets: its people, its culture, and its strategy. This guide explores why retreats are essential for driving alignment, innovation, and long-term business success.
Travel Management
Shared experiences are the glue that holds a team together. This guide explores why business travel is a uniquely powerful tool for building the trust, empathy, and social capital that define strong, resilient teams.
Travel Management
A business trip can be a pressure cooker for team dynamics. This guide provides leaders with practical strategies for managing personalities, resolving conflicts, and fostering a positive and collaborative environment on the road.
Traveler Guides
For distributed teams, in-person outings are a critical tool for building culture and connection. This guide offers unique, creative ideas for team gatherings that go beyond the standard and deliver a lasting impact.
Traveler Guides
A business trip is a significant investment. This guide provides actionable strategies for maximizing the ROI of team travel, turning every trip into an opportunity for professional development, relationship building, and strategic growth.
Travel Management
A leader's behavior on a business trip can make or break the experience for the team. This guide explores the critical role of leadership in shaping a positive, productive, and empowering travel culture.
Travel Management
The right destination can make or break a corporate retreat. This guide explores a curated list of top destinations that offer the perfect blend of meeting facilities, engaging activities, and inspiring environments for a productive and memorable team building experience.
Travel Management
Business travel is a powerful, yet often underutilized, tool for enhancing team collaboration. Learn how to transform standard business trips into strategic opportunities for building a more cohesive, communicative, and effective team.
Travel Management
Innovation does not happen in a vacuum. This guide explores how taking your team out of the office for strategic outings can break down creative blocks, foster psychological safety, and spark the innovative ideas that drive business growth.
Travel Management
Transform a standard business trip into a powerful opportunity for team development. This guide offers best practices for organizing team activities that are effective, efficient, and impactful.
Travel Management
A successful team trip is a careful blend of purposeful work and genuine fun. This guide provides strategies for striking the right balance to create a trip that boosts morale, strengthens culture, and drives results.
Travel Management
Maximize the ROI of your travel spend by integrating team building activities into your next business trip. Learn how this powerful combination can boost morale, collaboration, and your bottom line.
Travel Management
A manager's style has a profound impact on a team's travel experience, influencing everything from autonomy and stress levels to overall productivity. This guide explores the differences.
Travel Management
Tired of the same old team lunches? This guide provides a host of creative, engaging, and impactful ideas for team outings that go beyond the boardroom to build real connections.
Travel Management
Business trips are more than just meetings. They are a powerful, organic opportunity to build stronger, more resilient teams. Learn how to leverage travel for team bonding.
Travel Management
Corporate culture is not built in the boardroom; it is forged through shared experiences. This guide explores how strategic team building activities can profoundly shape and strengthen your company culture.
Travel Management
Moving beyond the office walls can transform team dynamics. This guide explores the powerful, research backed ways that team outings boost collaboration, communication, and ultimately, productivity.
Traveler Guides
Empowering employees to book their own travel boosts satisfaction and efficiency. This guide explains how to implement a self-booking tool that provides autonomy while maintaining corporate control.
Travel Management
A high-performance travel program is a strategic asset that saves money, boosts productivity, and improves employee satisfaction. This guide outlines the key components for building a truly world-class program.
Travel Management
Travel compliance is a strategic function that impacts your finances, legal obligations, and traveler safety. This guide explains why compliance is critical and how to achieve it.
Travel Management
Manual travel management tasks are a major drain on productivity. This guide outlines how to use automation and smart processes to dramatically reduce the administrative burden on your travelers, managers, and finance teams.
Expense & Cost Control
A disconnected T&E process is a major source of inefficiency. This guide explores the powerful benefits and practical methods of integrating your travel and expense systems to create a seamless, automated workflow.
Cost Control
Airfare is the largest part of most travel budgets. This guide provides a strategic framework for leveraging your company's spending data to negotiate corporate airfare deals and achieve significant savings.
Travel Management
A travel policy can be a tool for control or a tool for empowerment. This guide explores how to build a transparent travel policy that fosters trust, improves compliance, and creates a positive travel culture.
Travel Management
Inefficiency in a travel program leads to wasted time and money. This guide provides proven, actionable strategies to boost efficiency across your entire corporate travel lifecycle, from booking to post-trip reporting.
Travel Management
Beyond just price, choosing the right corporate lodging impacts traveler productivity, safety, and your bottom line. This guide covers effective strategies for a smarter hotel program.
Expense & Cost Control
In travel management, decisions made on outdated information are costly. This guide explores why real-time data is critical for cost control, duty of care, and strategic program optimization.
Traveler Guides
Business travel can take a toll on well-being. This guide offers practical strategies for travelers and travel managers to reduce stress and promote healthier, more productive journeys.
Traveler Guides
Choosing the right hotel is a critical component of a successful and productive business trip. This guide outlines the key factors to consider, from location and amenities to safety and loyalty programs.
Travel Management
Remote work has changed how and why we travel. This guide details how to adapt your travel program to support a distributed team, from defining new policies to managing large-scale team offsites.
Industry Insights
The corporate travel landscape is evolving at a rapid pace. This guide delves into the key trends and statistics shaping the industry, from the rise of bleisure travel to the critical focus on sustainability and technology.
Expense & Cost Control
A lack of visibility into T&E spend is a major financial risk. This guide explains how to use technology and process to gain real-time insight into your company's travel spending.
Traveler Guides
Booking flights is the cornerstone of business travel. This guide provides actionable tips for booking flights efficiently, saving money, and improving the traveler experience through smart policies and technology.
Travel Management
International travel adds layers of complexity, from visas and cultural etiquette to risk management. This guide provides a comprehensive framework for managing global business travel effectively and safely.
Travel Management
Manual approval workflows are a major bottleneck. This guide details how to create a streamlined, automated approval process that saves time, controls costs, and empowers your team.
Expense & Cost Control
Manual expense management is a major drain on productivity and financial control. This guide provides a strategic roadmap for streamlining your T&E process through automation and clear policies.
Travel Management
Managing business travel is a challenge for companies of all sizes. This guide explores why small businesses need a managed travel program and how modern, affordable technology can provide control, savings, and efficiency.
Industry Insights
The corporate travel landscape is evolving at a rapid pace. This guide delves into the key trends and statistics shaping the industry, from the rise of bleisure travel to the critical focus on sustainability and technology.
Industry Insights
Building a sustainable travel program involves more than just buying offsets. It requires actively choosing and promoting greener travel options. This guide explores the most impactful choices you can make.
Expense & Cost Control
To reduce your travel emissions, you first need to measure them accurately. This guide explains the complexities of carbon calculation and how technology provides the solution.
Industry Insights
Making your travel program greener is a business imperative. This guide provides a comprehensive framework for building a sustainable travel program by measuring emissions, promoting greener choices, and setting effective policies.
Expense & Cost Control
A corporate card program can streamline payments, but it requires a clear and robust policy to prevent misuse and control spending. This guide provides an essential template and best practices.
Expense & Cost Control
Expense report fraud is a significant and often hidden cost. This guide outlines the common types of fraud and provides a strategic framework for preventing, detecting, and managing it.
Travel Management
From situational awareness and hotel security to protecting your data, this guide provides practical, actionable security best practices to keep you safe on your next business trip.
Travel Management
An effective travel risk management program is a critical component of Duty of Care. This guide details the essential strategies for identifying, assessing, and mitigating the risks associated with business travel.
Travel Management
Duty of Care is a company's fundamental obligation to protect its employees. This guide provides a comprehensive framework for building a robust travel risk management program that ensures traveler safety and legal compliance.
Traveler Guides
Germany's economic power is spread across several key cities. Understand the unique character of Frankfurt, Munich, and Berlin to optimize your business trip.
Travel Management
The candidate experience starts long before they arrive at your office. This guide explains how to create a smooth, professional, and impressive travel experience for your interview candidates.
Travel Management
Coordinating travel for a team, offsite, or event presents unique challenges. This comprehensive guide provides a strategic approach to managing group travel efficiently, from policy and booking to budgeting and on-site support.
Travel Management
Blending business with leisure is a powerful perk. This guide details how to create a clear and effective bleisure travel policy to manage expenses, liability, and duty of care.
Traveler Guides
Business travel can be draining. This guide offers ten practical tips to help you stay productive, focused, and healthy on the road, turning travel time into an advantage.
Traveler Guides
Packing for a business trip is an art. This guide provides a comprehensive checklist of essentials to ensure you are prepared, productive, and polished on the road.
Expense & Cost Control
Manual expense reports are a drain on time and resources, especially for a small business. This guide provides a simple roadmap for implementing expense automation to save money, increase productivity, and gain financial control.
Expense & Cost Control
Virtual cards offer a secure, controlled, and efficient way to manage travel expenses, eliminating the need for physical corporate cards and simplifying reconciliation. This guide explains how they work and why they are a game-changer.
Cost Control
Discover how modern travel management software automates savings, from enforcing advance booking policies to recovering unused ticket credits, transforming your T&E spend.
Travel Management
Is booking business class ever worth it? This guide explores the strategic considerations for when to approve premium cabin travel and how to manage it effectively within your corporate travel policy.
Cost Control
Hotel spend is a major part of any travel budget. This guide provides a step-by-step process for negotiating hotel rates and implementing a preferred hotel program to drive significant savings.
Cost Control
Cutting travel costs doesn't have to mean cutting travel. This guide provides strategic, actionable methods to reduce your T&E spend without sacrificing traveler well-being or business opportunities.
Travel Management
The world of corporate travel has changed. Discover the modern, strategic approaches to travel management that focus on technology, traveler experience, and data-driven insights to deliver real business value.
Travel Management
Travel compliance is more than just following rules; it's a strategic function that impacts your finances, legal obligations, and traveler safety. This guide breaks down what you need to know.
Travel Management
Use this comprehensive template and guide to create a clear, effective corporate travel policy that will control costs and keep your travelers safe and happy.
Cost Control
A well-planned travel budget is essential for financial control. This guide provides a simple, 5-step process for creating a data-driven and realistic T&E budget.
Travel Management
Moving from unmanaged travel to a managed program is a critical step for any growing business. This guide provides a practical, step-by-step roadmap to get you started.
Travel Management
A comprehensive travel policy is the foundation of any managed travel program. This guide breaks down every component you need to create a policy that controls costs, ensures safety, and is easy to follow.
Industry Insights
From entry-level roles to strategic leadership, this guide outlines the skills, career paths, and steps you need to build a successful career in the dynamic field of corporate travel management.
Travel Management
Elevate your role from a travel coordinator to a strategic program leader with these essential best practices for efficiency, cost control, and traveler satisfaction in the modern business travel landscape.
Traveler Guides
Traveling for business to the UK from the EU has changed. This guide covers the key changes to immigration and customs you need to be aware of.
Traveler Guides
The tech landscape is more distributed than ever. Discover the key business hubs for technology outside of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Traveler Guides
São Paulo is the financial heart of Latin America. This guide provides the essential tips for navigating its vibrant and demanding business environment.
Traveler Guides
Schiphol is one of Europe's most important and efficient hubs. Learn how to navigate it quickly and make the most of its services.
Traveler Guides
Succeed in Asia's financial hub by understanding the unique blend of cultures that defines its professional etiquette.
Traveler Guides
As one of the world's busiest airports, DXB can be overwhelming. Here’s how to navigate it like a pro.
Traveler Guides
Australia's two largest cities have distinct business cultures and economic strengths. This guide helps you understand the key differences.
Traveler Guides
From the financial heart of The City to the tech hub of Shoreditch, here are top hotel choices for business travelers in London.
Traveler Guides
Master the busiest US airports with these practical tips for navigating major hubs like JFK, LAX, and ORD with maximum efficiency.
Travel Management
While technology has empowered self-booking, the expert corporate travel agent remains a critical component of a managed travel program. Learn why.
Cost Control
The cost of a business trip is more than just the price of the flight and hotel. Learn how to account for the hidden 'soft costs' that impact your bottom line.
Travel Management
From booking and approvals to reporting and analytics, discover what a comprehensive travel management software can do to streamline your corporate travel program.
Industry Insights
The GDS has been the backbone of the travel industry for decades. Learn what it is, how it works, and how it's evolving in the age of NDC.
Travel Management
A Travel Management Company (TMC) is a specialized travel agency that manages a company's entire business travel program. Learn what a modern TMC can do for you.
Industry Insights
Complexity is not a travel perk. With Routespring, travel truly is a hands-off experience.
Cost Control
Negotiating a corporate hotel rate can lead to significant savings. This guide provides a step-by-step approach to leveraging your travel data to get the best deal.
Cost Control
Investing in a travel management platform isn't a cost, it's an investment. This guide shows you how to measure the return on that investment through both hard and soft savings.
Expense & Cost Control
Should you issue corporate cards or use a centralized payment system for travel? This guide breaks down the pros and cons to help you decide.
Expense & Cost Control
An expense policy is critical for controlling spend and ensuring fairness. This guide covers the essential components you need to create a policy that works.
Traveler Guides
A great travel program isn't just about saving money. It's about creating a seamless, supportive, and positive experience for your traveling employees. Here's why it matters and how to improve it.
Travel Management
Coordinating travel for a team or event can be a logistical nightmare. This guide provides a strategic approach to managing group travel efficiently and cost-effectively.
Expense & Cost Control
Is your T&E policy up to date? Use this comprehensive checklist to ensure your policy covers all the bases for cost control, compliance, and traveler safety.
Industry Insights
Making your travel program greener is no longer optional. This guide provides actionable steps to measure your carbon footprint, reduce emissions, and build a truly sustainable travel program.
Expense & Cost Control
Companies leave millions of dollars on the table every year by failing to reclaim Value Added Tax on international travel. This guide explains what VAT is and how you can get it back.
Industry Insights
NDC is changing the way airline content is distributed. This guide breaks down what NDC is, why it matters, and how it will impact your corporate travel program.
Industry Insights
Blending business with leisure is the new norm. Learn how to create a travel policy that supports this trend to boost employee morale and attract top talent.
Expense & Cost Control
Move beyond manual spreadsheets and receipt chasing. Learn how an integrated, mobile-first approach can make travel expense tracking truly effortless.
Travel Management
Discover how a consumer-grade, self-service booking platform can increase employee satisfaction and policy compliance simultaneously.
Cost Control
Unused flight credits are a major source of wasted travel spend. Learn how to automate the tracking and re-booking process to ensure you never lose a dollar.
Travel Management
From policy creation to post-trip reporting, learn how to streamline every step of the corporate travel planning process for maximum efficiency.
Travel Management
Move your travel program from a cost center to a strategic asset by focusing on visibility, traveler experience, and data-driven decisions.
Travel Management
A rigid, one-size-fits-all travel policy can do more harm than good. Learn why a flexible, dynamic policy is key to cost control and traveler satisfaction.
Travel Management
Discover how consolidating your travel program onto a single platform can drive efficiency, improve visibility, and generate significant cost savings.
Travel Management
From last-minute bookings to rogue spending, learn about the most common travel policy compliance issues and how to solve them with technology and clear guidelines.
Cost Control
Looking to reduce your T&E spend? Here are five practical, high-impact strategies you can implement today to achieve significant savings on your business travel program.
Travel Management
Remote work is changing how and why we travel. Learn how to adapt your travel program to support a distributed team, from team offsites to first-day-in-office trips.
Travel Management
Elevate your role from a travel coordinator to a strategic program manager with these essential best practices for efficiency, cost control, and traveler satisfaction.
Expense & Cost Control
Learn the best practices for managing T&E, from creating a clear policy to leveraging technology for streamlined reporting and cost control.
Traveler Guides
From the vibrant business hubs of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro to its unique cultural etiquette, this guide provides the essential tips for navigating the complexities and opportunities of business travel in Brazil.
Traveler Guides
While culturally similar to the U.S., business travel in Canada has its own nuances, from navigating its vast geography to understanding its bilingual identity. This guide covers the essentials.
Traveler Guides
Doing business in China requires a deep understanding of its unique cultural context, from the importance of 'guanxi' to the rituals of the business banquet. This guide provides the essential knowledge for success.
Traveler Guides
India's dynamic and complex market offers immense rewards for the well-prepared business traveler. This guide covers the essential tips for navigating its unique culture, logistics, and business etiquette.
Traveler Guides
Japan's unique business culture is built on a foundation of respect, precision, and harmony. This guide covers the essential etiquette and logistical tips for a successful corporate trip.
Traveler Guides
South America is a continent of immense diversity and opportunity. This guide provides essential tips on culture, logistics, and safety for a successful business trip.
Traveler Guides
From navigating vast distances to understanding the laid-back business culture, this guide provides essential tips for a productive business trip Down Under.
Traveler Guides
The Middle East is a region of immense economic opportunity, but its unique business culture demands careful preparation. This guide covers the essentials for a successful and respectful trip.
Traveler Guides
Southeast Asia is a dynamic hub for business, but its unique cultural and logistical landscape requires careful preparation. This guide covers the essentials for a successful trip.
Traveler Guides
Navigating business travel in Europe requires a blend of cultural awareness, logistical planning, and understanding of regional nuances. This guide covers key tips for a successful trip.
Travel Management
Move beyond trust falls. Here are 10 engaging and effective team building exercises that can foster collaboration, improve communication, and boost morale.
Cost Control
Discover the direct and indirect ways a well-crafted, automated travel policy can significantly reduce your company’s travel and expense spend.
Traveler Guides
Navigating the world's busiest airports can be daunting. Here are practical tips and insights to make your journey smoother through hubs like Atlanta, Dubai, and Tokyo.
Expense & Cost Control
Discover why connecting your travel booking and expense management processes is the single most effective way to streamline operations and gain financial control.
Travel Management
Understand your company's legal and moral obligation to keep your traveling workforce safe, and learn the best practices for a robust risk management program.
Travel Management
A step-by-step guide to developing a corporate travel policy that is clear, fair, and easy to enforce.
Cost Control
Learn practical strategies for managing your travel budget without sacrificing traveler satisfaction.
Industry Insights
Explore the latest trends shaping the corporate travel landscape, from sustainability to AI-powered personalization.