Collaboration aims to ‘bridge the gap’ between traditional travel channels and direct supplier relationships
Traxo, a booking tracking provider; and Traverse Technologies, a direct booking and management provider, announced a strategic partnership “to revolutionize corporate travel programs.”
This collaboration, according to the announcement, brings Traxo data distribution’s capabilities to Traverse’s airline and corporate clients, enabling seamless, secure data sharing with solution providers in the corporate travel ecosystem. The partnership, said the announcement, meets the modern, multichannel demands of travel buyers and suppliers by bridging the gap between traditional travel channels and the growing trend of direct supplier relationships.
According to the companies, benefits of the partnership include:
• Employee safety and compliance: Expands travel risk coverage to all travelers regardless of booking source and enables negotiated rates and corporate policy adherence on supplier direct points of sale.
• Spend optimization and vendor negotiations: Delivers actionable insights for cost savings, more effective vendor negotiations and proactively managing travel spending pre-trip.
• Data portability: Enables frictionless portability of travel data from any source to any endpoint, enhancing total travel program visibility and effectiveness and the ability to manage travel booked and modified in different channels.
• Sustainability: Delivers booking data to enable accurate carbon calculations and usage, with budget insights that can be actioned pre-trip.
• Improved traveler experience: Gives travelers the flexibility to book using their preferred supplier apps and enjoy the benefits of brand differentiation and personalization.
• Unlocks travel programs: Enables travel managers to confidently extend travel programs to include preferred suppliers without giving up visibility, control over their program or traveler duty-of-care.
• Interoperability: Distributes real-time data to travel solution providers, ensuring secure, seamless connectivity to duty-of-care partners, expense, TMCs, sustainability, business intelligence and other endpoints.
Andres Fabris, CEO of Traxo, said the collaboration “plugs critical visibility gaps in direct booking channels, bringing them to parity with services that TMCs have provided for decades.” By prioritizing interoperability and meeting travelers where they are, he said, “we enable organizations to enhance duty of care, ensure compliance and optimize spend — all while empowering suppliers to interface directly with corporate buyers.”
Michael Harbin, CEO of Traverse Technologies, said, “We’re stripping away the unnecessary layers, unleashing flexibility, and proving that modern travel management can be powerful, collaborative, and — dare we say it — a little fun delivering direct experiences travel managers and their travelers will value.”
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