The Complete Guide to Corporate Travel Bookings
A practical handbook for EAs, PAs and business travel bookers.
Booking corporate travel isn’t just about flights and hotels. It’s about balancing budgets, policies, preferences, duty of care, and last-minute changes — often all at once.
If you’re responsible for arranging business trips, you’re managing far more than logistics. You’re protecting time, controlling spend, supporting senior stakeholders, and ensuring every traveller arrives prepared and safe.
Our Complete Guide to Corporate Travel Bookings is designed to make your role easier.
Inside, you’ll find practical advice, best practice guidance and expert insight to help you streamline travel management — while showing how partnering with a trusted TMC like Travel Counsellors for Business can significantly reduce the pressure.
What you'll learn in this guide
This comprehensive handbook covers:
The realities of booking corporate travel: Turn reactive booking into a smooth, repeatable process.
How to build a travel policy that actually works: Create clear guidelines that drive compliance without complexity.
Why centralising bookings saves time and reduces risk: Improve visibility, reporting and duty of care with one trusted partner.
Managing traveller preferences without the admin: Use traveller profiles to cut admin and reduce errors.
Handling disruption like a pro: Keep travellers moving with the right support in place.
Making duty of care effortless: Protect your people with real-time tracking and 24/7 support.
Saving time without sacrificing value: Leverage expert fares and negotiated rates to reduce costs and workload.
Whether you book occasional trips or manage travel at scale, this guide will help you work smarter and with greater confidence.