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How To Encourage Your Travellers To Stay Within Policy

Writing an effective company travel policy, designed to help your business’ travellers follow booking and reimbursement procedures, is a tricky task. But enforcing it within your company once it’s written can be even harder. Here are our six top…

FCTG Half Year Results

Flight Centre Travel Group released its year-end results on 27 August for its 2020 Fiscal Year, which show an optimistic future for its corporate brands despite a major downturn in the travel industry.

24 February 2021

Four Common Mistakes Companies Make When Booking Travel

Would you balance your business accounts yourself just because you know how to use Excel? You might, but it will take a great deal longer and you are likely to make more mistakes than getting an expert to do it for you. Here are four of the most…

10 February 2021

TRUST IN FCBT TO PLUG YOUR TRAVEL LEAKAGE

There are various temptations that lead employees to book outside of a preferred partner, like the perceived value of low rates, or just personal convenience, but the overall cost to the company of these collective individual actions far outweighs…

20 January 2021

How can a TMC help you save money on business travel in a post-COVID world?

The severe effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on businesses have led the majority of companies to look at different strategies for tightening the purse strings . Here's how a TMC can help deliver savings to your travel programme.

13 January 2021

Setting goals for 2021

If 2020 has made you want to start 2021 with a ‘New Year, New Me’ mindset, the chances are you’re not alone. This year, why not try setting goals to give you purpose and direction. Not sure where to start? Take a look at our ten goals to help make…

13 January 2021

Where to start with travel budgeting for 2021

One element of budgeting for SMEs that might currently seem a little tricky to get right is that of business travel. With no precedent to base a rough template on, and with domestic borders still liable to open and shut at a moment’s notice,…

9 December 2020

Our Travel Experts Share Their Best Kept Local Secrets: Victoria

Now that they're free from lockdown, we have asked our Victorian-based travel experts to share with us their favourite local haunts to get away to on a weekend.

3 December 2020

Save Money With FCBT

As business travel experts, we are constantly searching for (and finding) ways to save you money on your business trips, whether that’s leveraging our relationships with certain airlines to reduce fares, or spotting a way to get you a room upgrade…

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25 November 2020

How To Beat Travel Anxiety

With border restrictions being eased, you may soon be preparing for your next business trip, and with Covid-19 still in the headlines, it’s completely understandable to be feeling a bit anxious. Here are our top tips to help you feel more in control…

25 November 2020

Travel Management Benefits For SMEs

The wide-ranging benefits of using travel management companies (TMCs) apply to all types and sizes of businesses, but they can be particularly fruitful for startups and SMEs in ways that aren’t always obvious.

18 November 2020

How To Make Savings With Confidence

Given the current uncertainty, many businesses are now under more pressure than ever before to tighten the purse strings. But whilst cost savings are necessary, the savviest companies will be reviewing their books through a longer-term lens.

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