Base Tendriling Vacation Charges

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As business vacation fees nose upward, businesses are recognizing car hire better cost-management techniques could make a difference

US. company journey bills rocketed to much more than $143 billion in 1994, according to American Express' most recent survey on organization travel administration. Private-sector employers shell out an approximated $2,484 for every worker on journey and amusement, a seventeen % boost over the past four a long time.

Corporate T&E costs, now the third-largest controllable expense behind sales and data-processing costs, are under new scrutiny. Corporations are realizing that even a savings of 1 percent or two percent can translate into millions of dollars added to their bottom line.

Savings of that order are sure to get management's attention, which is a requirement for this type of project. Involvement begins with understanding and evaluating the components of T&E management in order to control and monitor it extra effectively.

Hands-on management includes assigning responsibility for travel management, implementing a quality-measurement system for journey services used, and writing and distributing a formal vacation policy. Only 64 % of U.S. corporations have travel policies.

Even with senior management's support, the road to savings is rocky-only one in three corporations has successfully instituted an internal program that will help cut travel charges, and the myriad aspects of vacation are so overwhelming, most corporations don't know where to start. "The industry of travel is based on information," says Steven R. Schoen, founder and CEO of The Global Group Inc. "Until such time as a passenger actually sets foot on the plane, they've [only] been purchasing information."

If that's the case, information technology seems a viable place to hammer out those elusive, but highly sought-after, savings. "Technological innovations in the business vacation industry are allowing firms to realize the potential of automation to control and reduce indirect [travel] costs," says Roger H. Ballou, president of the Vacation Services Group USA of American Express. "In addition, many organizations are embarking on quality programs that include sophisticated process improvement and reengineering efforts designed to substantially improve T&E administration processes and reduce indirect costs."