Travelocity Business Expands Online Reporting Options; New Reports Help Corporations Track and Analyze Everything from Traveler
July 11 2005 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
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.
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