Online booking tools
CTP supports a range of online booking tools (OBTs), including proprietary and third-party solutions, enabling a tailored travel management solution that is built for your business’s specific travel needs and preferences.
What differentiates CTP’s online booking tool offering from other travel management providers is our ability to enhance the end-user experience of third-party tools by layering CTP’s proprietary technology framework. These unique product customizations deliver our customers with enhanced product features and benefits, significantly increasing the speed and cost-savings potential of our online booking solutions.
We offer a range of online booking tools for our customers, including CTP and the CTM Group‘s proprietary booking tool, Lightning, and Concur.
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7 reasons to use an online booking tool
Whether you’re a travel arranger, travel approver, university traveler, or all three, an online booking tool (OBT) can be the perfect solution to your travel management needs. Below highlights just a few of the many reasons why your institution could benefit from utilizing an OBT.
Save time
Research and book air, hotel, and car rental in one platform, combining negotiated deals alongside global distribution system (GDS) content and last-minute inventory. Better visibility of rates and availability in a single source eliminates the need to compare across multiple sites.
Save money
Compare the best rates to travel across multiple providers in a single search, ensuring access to the best travel deals. Configurable policy regulations ensure maximum program compliance and support supplier preference to heighten your negotiation power. Access to redeem unused ticket credits enables your team to eliminate wastage. User-friendly OBTs also enable your teams and departments to easily self-book their travel, reducing service fees.
Personalized experience
Store traveler information and preferences, upload negotiated deals and supplier preferences, and apply filters to present and sort travel options in the most effective way for your individual users.
Duty of care
Traveler tracking and risk alerts allow institutions to easily locate and contact their travelers based on their travel itinerary, reducing potential risks to safety and efficiency.
Policy compliance
OBTs can be configured to your travel policy to ensure 100% mandate to in-policy buying, further bolstering your supplier negotiations and minimizing traveler risk.
Consolidated reporting
Booking all aspects of your travel in a single OBT ensures that all travel data is consolidated for more efficient reporting and budget control, and greater visibility of your travel program’s performance.
Book on the go
Online booking tools’ mobile apps enable your university staff to remain highly productive while traveling. With the ability to book and manage their itinerary 24/7, an OBT app gives your travelers greater control over the full travel experience.
