Traveler Security, Cost Containment & Personalized Global Service

The second largest expense for most companies is travel. Corporations expect their travel management companies to deliver the trifecta of international business travel: traveler security, cost containment, and personalized service. With the right partner, your agency can be counted on to accomplish it all for your corporate accounts, for every business trip taken anywhere in the world.

Here’s how we give you a substantial competitive edge

Preferred Hotel Program

A comprehensive hotel program is critical to your success when servicing business customers. Our best-in-class hotel program features over 40,000 negotiated hotel rates and includes access to BAR (Best Available Rates) with top hotel chains worldwide. This powerful tool helps independent agencies edge out the competition with exceptional, amenities-rich travel values.

Program Benefits Include

• No fees for TRAVELSAVERS agencies
• Rates are fully commissionable
• Special amenities and value-added extras such as room upgrades, early check-in/late check-out and complimentary breakfast
• Earn GDS segment credit and receive full commissions by booking electronically through the GDS or tripXpress
• Block Space program allows you to accommodate clients if a certain market is closed out
• Higher discounts off BAR
  
  

Multinational Technology Solutions

• Traveltix — This online booking engine makes air sales more profitable. We have negotiated preferred commission structures with many airlines – so you can earn on qualified international itineraries. There are no volume limitations, so the more you book, the more you earn.

• eGlobalfares — The travel software solutions company created to provide a multi-GDS suite of applications designed to easily facilitate global fare searches, reservations and fulfillment of private fares (net), Published fares and Foreign point-of-sale (published and private) fares.  It allows an agent to compare in one place at one time side-by-side – corporate specific negotiated fares with global content of Published, Private and LCC/web fares and Specialty fares (where applicable)

• Concur — Your corporate clients will appreciate this affordable, world-class corporate self-booking tool. It empowers users with policy enforcement, vendor rate management, real-time reporting, and a mobile app.

• Grasp Data — A powerful tool, this web-based system automates the corporate travel reporting and delivery process for your corporate clientele.

• Business Travel Pricing Matrix — Available exclusively to TRAVELSAVERS agencies, this tool allows you to quickly calculate the profitability of your corporate accounts – so you can assess their financial value to your bottom line.

• Travel Helpline — The industry’s premiere after-hours service gives your corporate clients instant access to a travel professional 24/7 anywhere in the world. You can rest assured that their travel needs will be met, even after your agency has closed for the day.

Staffing and Fulfillment

Our Forte Business Travel Solutions division provides member agencies with travel staffing, fulfillment and consulting services – giving them the fuel to fortify their corporate accounts and uplevel their agency’s bottom line.

Program Benefits Include:

• Acquiring new business with little or no financial risk, and virtually no upfront costs
• Adding new clients without increasing costs for additional space, staff and technology
• Accessing the technology and services required to compete for and win lucrative business travel accounts
• Increasing profits by reducing overhead and increasing margins
• Reducing costs associated with: hiring and training, benefits and insurance, supervision, liability for errors and omissions claims, and infrastructure
• Compete globally using Forte’s established international agency and supplier network

Meetings Program

If you do not currently offer meeting planning for your corporate accounts, our Acclaim Meetings program will give you a jump on this lucrative niche. If you already do meeting, planning, the program will help you increase profitability.

Program Benefits Include:

• Site selection and contract negotiation
• Preferred meeting suppliers offering amenities, specials and incentives
• Destination information through our long-standing relationships with convention and visitors bureaus and destination management companies
• Online RFPs and downloadable RFPs using industry standards
• How-to webinars
• E-newsletters and online access to all Acclaim Meetings resources
• Technology options for online meeting registration

Global Networking

Forte Business Travel Solution’s international network includes a group of leading TMCs in over 30 countries around the world. You have the option of participating in the network to better service your multinational corporate clientele.

As a TRAVELSAVERS agency, you have access to the Forte network free of charge for VIP assistance, M.I.C.E. business (Meetings, Incentives, Conference and Events), and Destination Management Companies.

At the higher level of participation as a Forte licensee, you have full access to the network and your TMC is well-positioned to:

• Compete and win new multinational clients
• Utilize our lead generation program
• Participate in and coordinate joint RFIs and RFPs
• Network with other Forte agencies for account-sharing opportunities and business solutions to manage your corporate accounts and VIP clients
• Contact other Forte TMCs for local and regional support, including destination expertise, cultural nuances and etiquette, local language support, and meeting and incentive venues