Calling all corporate travel managers and TMCs who love a technical deep dive. This one is for you. You’ll hear commentators in our industry proclaim how the future of effective travel management is simplified booking ecosystems, but what does that mean in plain English?
In essence, technology that makes it easier for businesses, the people who help arrange corporate travel, and travellers to plan, book, and manage how people get from A to B.
Under the hood, this means integrating multiple travel suppliers and services into an experience that travellers actually enjoy using.
Corporate travel has surged back to rude health in recent years and effective corporate travel has essentially become a competitive advantage and employee retention practice.
At the forefront of this simplification is the clever technology team at Atriis.
They are redefining travel management by integrating diverse travel platforms and suppliers into a unified ecosystem, one packed full of content, a fulfilling user experience, and for TMCs, ways of working that drive agent productivity upwards while waving goodbye to operational inefficiencies.
Addressing TMC pain points
Let’s start with how a simplified booking ecosystem helps travel management companies (TMCs) overcome their numerous challenges, from managing fragmented content sources to complex approval workflows and poor compliance with company travel policies.
Many traditional travel booking solutions require TMCs to toggle between multiple platforms, leading to errors, poor coverage and administrative overload.
Atriis eliminates these pain points by bringing together travel content into one go-to hub. This speeds up how people work, enhances visibility, and enables agents to deliver better service with fewer manual interventions.
Direct supplier, GDS, NDC content; it doesn’t matter the type, it’s all under one roof. This brings clients closer to agents, strengthens trust and ensures that TMCs can focus on exceptional experiences.
The power of integration
People are overwhelmed by travel content and an average cross-continental journey now involves coordinating flights, accommodations, car rentals, public transport, and other considerations. Let’s hope nothing goes awry either.
The Atriis engineers are passionate about solving the scourge of content fragmentation. We want travellers to have a great experience, and that begins with enabling all parties—travel managers, travellers, and TMCs—to seamlessly use a single ecosystem.
No more swapping between different booking tools. No more grovelling to your manager to approve out-of-policy expenses. No more conflict between the TMC who wants to help but sees different booking options to you.
This is the power of exceptional booking experiences.
Enhancing the traveller experience
Traveller experience is paramount. Smoother travel makes business sense and has profound effects. When you have a booking tool anyone can understand, it reduces training time and support queries, enabling every touchpoint of travel management to be handled with ease and peace of mind.
This autonomy is significant, as it minimises reliance on travel agents for simple queries while reducing the groans making their way to corporate travel managers, the unsung heroes of the group, who are responsible for delighting employees with a fulfilling corporate travel experience.
Speaking of corporate travel managers, companies want highly customisable systems so employees feel they are working within an approved safe space.
Our team recognised this a long time ago, so from the earliest days of Atriis we have enabled companies to tailor their own Atriis platform to align with their specific travel policies and preferred suppliers.
This level of customisation ensures that companies maintain compliance with internal travel policies while optimising cost efficiency and traveller satisfaction.
Atriis’ recent innovations in travel management
We continue to lead the way in travel management technology with groundbreaking innovations within the booking ecosystem.
These advancements ensure that corporate travellers and TMCs have seamless access to comprehensive travel options. They reduce the complexity of managing multiple providers and platforms and enable agents to deliver faster, more efficient service.
Atriis became the first to integrate TAP NDC to offer enhanced direct connections and streamlined access to fares, reinforcing the ecosystem’s efficiency and reducing the dependence on legacy GDS systems. Lufthansa Group NDC became the first direct connection to offer interline agreements; we continue to expand our capabilities to simplify the booking experience and offer more flexibility for travellers.
These innovations reflect our core mission to create an interconnected, user-friendly travel management ecosystem that reduces costs, maintains duty of care, enables sustainable choices and enhances the traveller’s journey from booking to completion.
As digital transformation continues to reshape the corporate travel industry, the demand for simplified, integrated travel management solutions will only intensify. Atriis is leading this charge, pioneering a future where booking and managing travel is fulfilling, great for business, and highly accessible.
The future of travel is here, and with Atriis, it’s brighter, simpler, and more connected than ever before.
