Wednesday, May 28, 2008

To our valued clients:

Travel-On prides itself on its continued reinvestment in travel technology and services.  These resources assure that your travelers have the best possible travel experience and that your company realizes the most value for its travel dollar. 

We are currently launching four new products, each designed to afford the traveler a better experience while adding value strategies and services to the organization. Please review the brief product descriptions below for a preview of these cost saving, travel management tools and enhancements.

Travel-On is scheduling a series of webinars to introduce these new tools and services to our clients within the next several weeks. For immediate information, please contact Dave Cahan, Vice President of Business Development: dcahan@tvlon.com or call 240-387-4141. 

Karen Dunlap, President and CEO
Travel-On

American Express BTS Affiliation

How does your travel program stack up against others? Using confidential real data in real time, collected from hundreds of travel management companies in the U.S. and Canada, Travel GPA, the travel industry's largest benchmarking database, will help you quickly analyze and benchmark your travel program against similar companies using options like industry type, T&E spend, and geographic region. The Travel GPA Report Card benchmarks your major air, car and hotel metrics, grades your success in each area, and identifies positive and negative factors for a measurable overview of your travel program performance.

With Travel GPA, we will eliminate hours of data analysis for you AND use your own custom scoring and goal metrics to assist you in making decisions that will more quickly impact your travel program and keep your goals on target. No more waiting for last quarter's travel data summaries and analysis and responding to trends from 90 days ago.

Watch your Travel GPA change as the "Positive Factors" and "Negative Factors" section of your scorecard show you exactly what is keeping your program from being all that you want it to be.

Rearden Personal Assistant

Forty-five percent of a typical T&E budget is spent on the often under-managed auxiliary services such as dining, web/audio conferencing, ground transportation, client entertainment, airport parking, package shipping, etc. The Rearden Personal Assistant combines these services, in conjunction with with the traditional air, car, and hotel reservation platform, into one easy-to-use "mall" with your preferred vendors, rates, and policies built right in.

A key feature of the Rearden Personal Assistant, the services console, gives your company unprecedented control over spending in these areas. It lets you easily set and manage your spending policies, and then communicate them to your employees. Your employees get the convenience and timesavings of one-stop shopping while being guided to the behaviors and choices that are expected of them. You gain control over more of your T&E budget and save money as employees make better spending decisions and spend less time each day on these administrative tasks.

Additional features include:

• Calendar and address book integration
• Flight updates and alerts formatted for the Blackberry screen
• Multiple policy levels supported, with user experience tailored accordingly
• Tracking and reuse of unused tickets
• Multi-browser compatibility, including Firefox

If knowledge is power then imagine what you can accomplish when you have access to your up-to-the-minute travel data presented in your own secure executive dashboard. With multi-level drill-down capabilities you'll be able to see all of the detail behind the charts and graphs with just a click. Do a quick look-up; identify travel trends and better manage your spend; access your data whenever a question arises; use to provide an executive-level summary of your travel program. With Data Analytics you have even more power at your fingertips. (A nominal annual fee may apply to this product)