Rising Business Travel Costs

Are you doing all you can to curb rising costs?businesses followed by hotel.
It is no secret that business travel costs are on the riseAt Safe Harbors, we want to ensure that all of the
and the trend is predicted to continue in 2007. Inavailable tools are being utilized to make the best
November 2006, as part of the Safe Harbors seminarpossible decisions when purchasing travel. Using an
series, we hosted the 2007 Corporate Travel Briefing.online booking system for online savvy travelers, use a
One of the speakers, Kristi Long, Senior Director oftravel counselor for hands on support or complicated
Education at the National Business Travel Associationreservations and integrate purchases through one
(NBTA) cited statistics predicting car rental rates willseamless expense system are some ways to monitor
increase by 6% and hotel rates and airfare willand curb rising travel costs. Lastly, utilize your
increase by 7% in 2007. She added that the cost ofdashboard for all resources from online boarding
airfare is the largest controllable expense forpasses to travel insurance to tracking your flight.