Online Booking
Bay Area Travel is pleased to announce our new online booking tool, Trip Master is scheduled to launch by the 1st of February, 2008. This powerful online system streamlines and automates nearly every facet of corporate travel procurement. It enables you to reduce travel costs, increase procurement efficiencies, strengthen supplier relationships, and better enforce travel policies.
Easily accessible through a common Web browser and our website www.bayareatravel.com, Trip Master provides unprecedented flexibility and control. Employees can book flights, obtain flight schedules, and change bookings. What's more, since Trip Master integrates with our existing travel agency systems, Global Distribution Systems (GDS), and supplier host reservation systems, information seamlessly flows from system to system. Your traveler will even have the option to request additional assistance from a travel agent through the online booking process.
Encourages travel policy compliance
Trip Master is controlled from a secure administrative interface that accommodates your company's travel policies and preferred supplier agreements. You can make sure that all reservations are compliant with your corporate travel policies. In addition, lower priced fares are automatically suggested when they're available, encouraging your business travelers to fly at the lowest price whenever possible.
Optimizes travel supplier relationships
Regardless of the complexity of your travel supplier partnerships, we can assist you in managing key relationships more effectively. You can set and monitor contract commitments online. You then can maximize your preferred supplier agreements by mandating or influencing air, car, and hotel options. For example, you can allow employees to see options for only one airline, or highlight a specific airline to make it stand out on the screen.
Integrates with your systems
Trip Master accommodates integration requirements today and in the future, using industry standards to integrate with applications. There's nothing to install or support on your company's network, so travelers and travel managers can begin using Trip Master with the Web browser already available on their desktop PC.
For more information about Trip Master or other Bay Area Travel Services, please contact us at corporate@bayareatravel.com or 813-839-1677.