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Τετάρτη 19 Δεκεμβρίου 2018

Brexit and new business will prompt 2019 growth for Corporate Traveller







Αποτέλεσμα εικόνας για Brexit and new business will prompt 2019 growth for Corporate Traveller


Corporate Traveller, UK’s travel management company specialising in clients with an SME business travel spend of £50K to £2M, is predicting a 15 per cent increase in transactions in 2019 due to new business and the need for customers to travel more post-Brexit.
The company, which services clients locally from 20 offices nationwide, already saw transactions go up by 15 per cent in 2018 after winning £55M in new business. This equates to an average of 55 to 60 new clients per month across the UK, particularly in the manufacturing sector in Manchester; educational sector in Loughborough; retail sector in Liverpool and financial sector in London. Corporate Traveller also experienced growth in technology and retail sector clients in Scotland. For 2019, Corporate Traveller is targetting £75M in new business turnover.
Transaction growth will also be prompted by increased demand for travel in 2019 due to Brexit, especially in terms of UK-inbound bookings handled by Corporate Traveller for US and Europe-based clients. In 2018 Corporate Traveller already saw a rise of almost 12 per cent in the number of inbound air transactions and the TMC expects this upward trend to continue.
Andy Hegley
“Our SME customers who trade overseas will still need to travel whatever the outcome of the Brexit deal, in order to cement existing relations and establish new ones. If anything, they will need to travel more, so we expect this trend to contribute to our growth in 2019,” said Andy Hegley, UK General Manager, Corporate Traveller. “We have already seen more bookings for example in terms of in-bound travel to the UK from US-headquartered clients, who use us as their European hub for business travel management.
“However, our growth in 2018 and forecasts for 2019 are also attributed to the fact that we are winning significant amounts of new business from larger corporates with greater volumes,” explains Hegley. “This is because the launch of our technology platform YOUR.CT at the start of 2018 has opened up the market for us and attracted a wider range of customers, who are looking for a blended approach of technology solutions combined with personal offline service.”
According to Andy Hegley, the top two priorities for Corporate Traveller’s clients in 2019 will be cost savings and duty of care.
“Savings will still be high on the agenda for SME businesses, both in terms of identifying missed and realised savings, particularly as the UK enters the Brexit phase after March this year. So it will be even more important that they get the best value and advice on their travel policy and spend,” he says.
“Travellers are also increasingly concerned about their personal safety and work-life balance,” continues Hegley. “Our clients are therefore looking for technology and tools that will support the wellbeing of their employees while they are on the move, as well as advice on travel policy guidelines that support duty of care obligations. We will therefore be announcing an innovative new mobile solution early in 2019 to support our clients’ travellers more effectively.
2019 will also be a milestone year for Corporate Traveller UK as the TMC will mark its 20th anniversary. The Corporate Traveller story began in 1993 when the brand was launched as Flight Centre Travel Group’s first ever business travel operation in Australia, but it was 1999 when Corporate Traveller was introduced to the UK market. Corporate Traveller has come a long way since it was first set up by one of Flight Centre’s UK retail managers that year. Today the TMC has  500 staff operating in 20 city and town locations across England and Scotland, managing travel for over 200 UK clients and 200,000 business travellers per annum.
“Clearly we are doing something right in terms of providing SME-spend clients with the service and value they need and we look forward to continuing to go from strength to strength, but we can never be complacent. Our business is built around our customer and will only continue to be successful if we focus on the delivery of a customer service experience that clients will not receive anywhere else. That’s why we will continue focussing on products and services that are tailored to our clients in order to retain existing customers as well as reach new clients.”