Corporate travel in 2024 is filled with evolving and exciting trends for business travelers. As companies adapt to new realities, the landscape of corporate travel is undergoing significant transformations. Having a trusted Travel Management Company (TMC) like Teplis Travel by your side is more important than ever.  Below are a few of the top trends occurring within the corporate travel marketplace.   1. Rebound and Growth of Business Travel Corporate travel is rebounding. Business travel expenditures reached two-thirds of 2019 spending levels by the end of 202 ..read more

Based in Atlanta, Teplis Travel knows a thing or two about the vibrant capital of Georgia, including the fact that Atlanta is a bustling hub for business travelers. To ensure that your Atlanta business trip is successful, we have pulled together some tips and tricks specifically for Atlanta corporate travel. Whether you are attending a corporate meeting, association conference, or exploring new business opportunities, Atlanta offers a rich blend of culture, history, and modern amenities. Getting to know Atlanta Full of History: Atlanta has a storied past, rising from the ashes of the A ..read more

Let’s be honest. Managing a large corporation’s travel program can be taxing and a corporate travel manager can use all the help they can get. More specifically, business travelers can use all the help they can get, especially on the ground while they’re out on the road. That’s why putting together a Squad of Corporate Concierges can be a splendid way to help inform, assist and save the bacon of travelers who might find themselves in a travel fix. We’ve helped a number of global corporations set these up and with a few simple steps you too can insure future problems at a distant office can be ..read more

It’s understandable if a first time travel manager (or another employee tasked with the responsibility) was a bit daunted by the challenges of their job. Coming from a diverse range of backgrounds (onsite agent, online booking administrator, payroll, financial analyst) employees who take on this function may have some areas where additional research will be required to succeed. Which is fine, all jobs have a learning curve. Here are a few thoughts on ways to make this challenge easier: Create an informal travel committee. Assemble a set of partners and mentors among the employees of your comp ..read more

Last week, the Department of Transportation announced it had established an online guide to the specific remedies offered by airlines to passengers who had experienced a cancellation or delay that was due to circumstances within the airline’s control. (To view the dashboard, click here.) Very soon after publishing the dashboard, which we think is a great idea, controversy erupted between the White House and the airlines about how influential the move had been in getting the carriers to upgrade their offerings. “We’re proud to report that airlines vastly improved their plans,” Karine Jean-Pierr ..read more

During the lockdown non-refundable hotel rates pretty much disappeared. Along with airline and car rental suppliers, hotels were hungry for business, so they dropped cancellation and change fees and just about every product across the board was refundable, and in the case of Southwest Airlines, even non-expiring ticket credits became standard. Well, we’re not in the lockdown mode anymore. And hotel companies would sorely like to see them return. So what’s the current market look like? Rikin Wu, the CEO of DidaTravel, a global bedbank with over 23,000 B2B clients such as travel agents and tour ..read more

How do you know you have a top-notch travel agent? Here are a few signs: They don’t take an hour to get the details of your reservation. Everyone loves a personable conversation. Your agent can chit-chat, make recommendations for your destination and even ask about your children, and yet not waste your time. But if you’re twenty minutes in and they still don’t know if you need a hotel or car, your agent could be wasting valuable time. Good travel agents stay busy, juggling a dozen reservations at any given moment. There’s not time for a lengthy diatribe about politics, the weather or the pric ..read more

The part of your corporate travel policy which deals with refilling the gas tank of a rental car can have a big impact on your travel spend, especially if you have a large number of travelers who like to rent cars. The fact that gas is overly expensive at the moment just adds fuel to the financial fire. The movement of ride hire companies like Uber and Lyft into the business travel market had taken a lot of volume away from traditional rental companies like Hertz and Enterprise. But the pandemic changed all that as travelers avoided the extra human contact with Uber drivers, and a movement bac ..read more

Everybody loves their travel agent. (Whether they should or not. That’s a hot topic for another time…) But, it is true. That time the CEO was stuck in Reno and airports were snowed out all across the Northwest and your travel agent saved the day and got him home in no time flat. These kinds of performances create loyal customers and they should. But what happens when you combine two companies through merger, or acquisition, and both firms love different travel agencies? At Teplis Travel we’ve had a lot of experience merging travel programs. In the fifty years we’ve been providing corporate tra ..read more

Rental car suppliers are right to feel like they are on a merry-go-round. First the pandemic slowed business down to a stop. Then after laying off staff and selling inventory to stay in business the suppliers felt the merry-go-round start back up. And start to spin faster and faster. But, surprise, there are no new cars to replace sold inventory (thanks to a silicon chip shortage), and with the summer travel season upon us they must deal with a severe shortage of rental cars and staffing issues. Crowds queue up at airport rental desks, while parking lots outside sit empty. All of this drives p ..read more