| 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 rise | | | | At Safe Harbors, we want to ensure that all of the |
| and the trend is predicted to continue in 2007. In | | | | available tools are being utilized to make the best |
| November 2006, as part of the Safe Harbors seminar | | | | possible 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 of | | | | travel counselor for hands on support or complicated |
| Education at the National Business Travel Association | | | | reservations and integrate purchases through one |
| (NBTA) cited statistics predicting car rental rates will | | | | seamless expense system are some ways to monitor |
| increase by 6% and hotel rates and airfare will | | | | and curb rising travel costs. Lastly, utilize your |
| increase by 7% in 2007. She added that the cost of | | | | dashboard for all resources from online boarding |
| airfare is the largest controllable expense for | | | | passes to travel insurance to tracking your flight. |