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Corporate & Group Travel

Group air, rail, hotels, visas, transfers and manifests coordinated around the programme schedule by one travel desk that knows why each person is travelling.

Corporate & Group Travel — how the workstream is structured
8 things included

The work

Booking six hundred flights is not the hard part. Knowing that they are eleven group fares out of eleven cities, that four of them connect through a hub with a two-hour minimum, and that the transfer plan collapses if the Bangalore wave slips by ninety minutes — that is the hard part.

Our travel desk groups people the way the risk behaves: by departure city, by arrival wave, by visa exposure. Ticketed, held and unassigned stay separate states so nobody mistakes an option for a booking. The manifests that come out of it drive the coaches, the hotel desk staffing and the welcome team.

01

Grouped by departure city

Six hundred delegates from fourteen cities is fourteen negotiations, fourteen risk profiles and fourteen arrival windows. Grouping that way gets better fares, makes the exposure visible, and produces a transfer plan that survives one flight going wrong.

02

Visas are ranked by risk, not counted by status

A status count tells you 41 of 60 are approved. It does not tell you that three of the outstanding nineteen have passports expiring inside six months of travel and one has no appointment booked. Our visa desk ranks by who would actually be refused boarding, which turns a report into a call list.

03

Rooming is live until arrival

Rooming lists change until the morning people check in. We hold it as a live record with hard requirements never traded away, run the hotel’s format out of it, and reconcile the room nights against the master bill at close-out.

04

Disruption is a plan, not a phone call

Cancelled flights, missed connections, a closed airport. Rebooking authority, hotel contingency, transfer re-sequencing and who tells the client are agreed before travel starts. The traveller gets one number and a person who already knows their itinerary.

What you get

Deliverables, not intentions.

These are the artefacts that exist at the end of this workstream. If one of them is missing from a proposal you have received elsewhere, it is worth asking why.

  1. 01Departure-city grouping with ticketing status
  2. 02Rooming list held as a live document
  3. 03Visa risk list ranked by who would not board
  4. 04Transfer manifests with capacity checked
  5. 0524-hour traveller support line during travel days

Questions

Corporate & Group Travel — the awkward ones.

All FAQs

Usually not. Your TMC handles day-to-day business travel policy and booking; we handle event and group movement, which behaves differently — fixed dates, group fares, waves, manifests and a schedule that everything else hangs off. We work alongside a TMC routinely and will take the group piece out of their hands only if you want that.

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