A sustainable revolution in business travel can only take its first steps right from the business travel booking phase. In fact, it is at the moment of choice that preferring a means of travel with a lower ecological impact or a structure that respects specific sustainability standards can make the difference. As they say: many drops make an ocean. Well, even in the business travel sector, if more and more companies made responsible choices when booking, they would make an important contribution to the community and the planet. Obviously it is necessary to enable business travelers or travel office employees to be able to opt for more sustainable solutions. In this sense, intelligent booking systems are a decisive aid .
Booking tools for sustainable business travel
Until not long ago, organizing a business trip involved a long planning process. The cumbersome booking channels used in the past not only today constitute in all respects a clear obstacle to the optimization of time, budget and company resources, but represent a limit to a sustainable conversion of employee habits.
The first point to define is what an intelligent booking system is. This is a digital platform available to a company, intended for online booking of travel tickets and stays in facilities during a business trip . The functions included in the system can be adapted to company needs and the rules established by the travel policy . For example, an intelligent booking platform allows you to set your budget, but also to select properties that respect ecological and sustainable protocols or to indicate the travel class allowed . In the case of means of transport, the preference for flights using SAF, i.e. fuel with reduced CO2 emissions, could also be indicated. In addition to empowering employees to make more virtuous choices, indicating which elements need to be evaluated to select more sustainable solutions is an important step in promoting a culture of sustainability. In fact, the staff also needs to be guided and educated to understand the guidelines for business travel that is more respectful of the environment and more.
AlmAPP for safe, sustainable and trackable business travel
In addition to the ease that booking systems provide employees to make virtuous choices for the environment, a digital ecosystem for organizing business travel offers solutions tailored to the needs of the individual company. For example, Alma Travel has ad hoc systems for the client company, effective and performing at both a local and global level, which ensure fast response times, measurement of service performance, analysis of proposals and management of reports in real time.
Our AlmAPP allows you to obtain quick responses from suppliers and request proposals in real time for a corporate trip that leaves nothing to chance; not even ecological protection or employee safety. As already mentioned, the automatic booking system by Alma Travel is a customized tool for managing travel requests, but also an important resource for collecting, tracking and archiving all the company's processes in a single system. In fact, our IT solutions also provide the possibility of reading the information collected in the form of reports. In this way the customer can carry out periodic analyzes regarding the travel options of their employees and therefore draw conclusions to improve both internal decision-making processes and the company's contribution to environmental protection.
AmlAPP can work both in stand alone mode and integrated with the client company's travel management system for rapid and timely reporting of the total travel cost and quick control by the administration with a reduction in control times by 80% compared to others systems.
One of the features that make the intelligent booking system proposed by us unique is the connection with NDC, i.e. New Distribution Capability. In fact, to date, Alma Travel is the TMC in Italy that offers the highest number of airlines connected to NDC . Airlines are increasingly selling flights and services directly from their websites. This sales model ensures the reduction of travel costs and greater personalization of trips by the user. In fact, thanks to this functionality, employees who use AlmApp can select the cheapest and least polluting flight.
So, the question is very simple: if organizing a trip the old fashioned way is counterproductive from both a business and environmental point of view, why not choose smarter, simpler and safer systems like those proposed by Alma Travel?