Room for Savings: Optimizing Hotel Spend - Carlson
Room for Savings: Optimizing Hotel Spend - Carlson
Room for Savings: Optimizing Hotel Spend - Carlson
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Seven steps to optimize hotel spend > Improve traveler compliance<br />
Actions to improve compliance<br />
In addition to monitoring traveler behavior<br />
through relevant data, a number of actions can<br />
help improve compliance:<br />
Implement clear policy mandates. As seen<br />
on Pages 47-61, a clear policy is the<br />
cornerstone of effectively managed hotel<br />
spend. Travel managers must provide<br />
enough instructions so travelers know<br />
what to do in most booking situations,<br />
without burdening them with too much,<br />
potentially confusing in<strong>for</strong>mation. Whenever<br />
possible, mandates, rather than simple<br />
recommendations, can make a significant<br />
difference to how often travelers use<br />
preferred hotels and preferred booking<br />
channels.<br />
Figure 108: Travelers who have easy access<br />
to their company’s hotel directory tend to<br />
book preferred hotels more often<br />
Ensure the travel policy and preferred<br />
hotel directory are up-to-date and easily<br />
accessible to travelers and travel<br />
arrangers. Travelers who say they can easily<br />
access their company’s hotel directory select<br />
preferred hotels more often than those who<br />
say they do not have easy access. Yet<br />
awareness of the preferred hotels is low<br />
compared to the travel policy: only 52<br />
percent of travelers say they know how to<br />
access an up-to-date hotel directory,<br />
compared to 74 percent who can easily<br />
access an up-to-date travel policy (Figures<br />
108-109).<br />
Figure 109: Only 52% of travelers say they<br />
can easily access their company’s directory of<br />
preferred hotels, while 74% say they have<br />
easy access to their travel policy<br />
Don’t know<br />
Non-preferred hotel<br />
Preferred hotel<br />
Don’t know<br />
Company does not<br />
have a preferred<br />
hotel directory<br />
No<br />
Yes<br />
Source: CWT Travel Management Institute<br />
Based on a survey of travelers (5,016 responses)<br />
Source: CWT Travel Management Institute<br />
Based on a survey of travelers (5,016 responses)<br />
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