Travel workplace updates journey administration companies partnership

University of Oregon enterprise vacationers will now work with one journey company for reserving journeys to conferences and occasions, in line with the Travel Office in Business Affairs. 

Direct Travel has been a companion with the UO for greater than a decade, and lots of departments and vacationers have established trusted relationships with its devoted UO journey agent group. Direct Travel additionally has huge expertise with different increased schooling establishments, together with friends within the Big Ten Conference. 

Transitioning to a single journey administration firm creates higher consistency for customers working with a journey agent or utilizing the Concur on-line reserving software. Process efficiencies are additionally achieved because the journey workplace group will now not must divide time and sources to handle separate reserving instruments, reporting entities, account managers and payment constructions. They can now enhance the web reserving software configuration, shortly determine any points that come up and apply options. 

Working solely with Direct Travel will carry: 

• Access to an elevated variety of devoted journey brokers to fulfill the wants of UO enterprise vacationers.
• Access to a technologically superior international distribution system, Sabre. This will permit UO vacationers entry to new options, equivalent to specifically discounted fares, that have been beforehand solely obtainable instantly with the airways.
• New reporting and messaging capabilities will permit higher administration of unused ticket credit, security and danger notifications and dissemination of basic journey steering to lively vacationers.
• Consistent reserving software expertise and information feed into Concur so vacationers have constant entry to their itineraries and receipts.
• Additional buyer instruments equivalent to invoices on demand and a set of stories aimed toward bettering monitoring of UO journey belongings, and help negotiating with journey distributors to achieve deeper reductions for UO enterprise vacationers.

More info will likely be shared with departments concerning the final timeline and unused ticket credit held with UO’s different presently contracted journey administration firm.  

The request for proposal course of engaged personnel from monetary service facilities throughout campus, representing the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Design, School of Journalism and Communication, College of Education, analysis institutes and Office of Finance and Administration items to serve on the analysis committee.