Online travel agency Travelstart has introduced a new service aimed at making it easy for businesses to make travel bookings on the platform.
The online travel agency says its new business travel booking and reporting tool, Travelstart for Business, offers a dashboard, allowing companies to create a business account and add all employees to one unified platform.
Users can toggle between their personal and business travel accounts within the Travelstart site, separating personal and leisure bookings from those which are work-related.
"Personal travel takes a lot of planning and processing before travellers book their trips, while business travel is more frequent and in shorter intervals of time," says Pia Spratley, head of product at Travelstart.
"Having a platform that can take care of these frequent and impromptu requests, provide the best prices and offer ongoing support is what we aimed to achieve with Travelstart for Business."
The platform, which lists thousands of trips tailor-made for business travellers, uses the latest smart reporting and monitoring tools to enable users to view their business bookings, and check-in automatically, using the Travelstart mobile app Flapp.
In addition, business travellers can benefit from negotiated fares, corporate deals and no setup fees, according to the company.
Our mission is to make travel simple, and any company can sign up free of charge by creating an account on the Travelstart Web site, says Spratley.
Travelstart for Business is entering a highly competitive market, with various similar platforms already in the local market.
In 2017, online travel company TravelGround Group launched its local business travel platform, WorkTripper.
In 2014, accommodation booking site Airbnb launched the Airbnb for Work feature on its platform, which the company says has signed up 700 000 companies to date.
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