Access To The Best In Travel Excellence As a global company, business travel plays an important part in Hatch's successful operation. Yolandi Coertze, facilities manager at Hatch, explains how switching to Travelit changed the way they travelled forever - for the better.
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Multinational engineering consultancy, Hatch requires a travel partner that provides easy access to its regional and international offices for meetings, conferences and client engagements. This is why Hatch chose Travelit, and has since experienced reliable and consistently superior service, says Yolandi Coertze, facilities manager.
"Travelit allows us to have the flexibility in terms of work sharing with global offices and makes it possible for us to attend to our client requirements in a professional and efficient manner."
Here's how partnering with Travelit has helped Hatch soar as a market leader.
What have Hatch's biggest business travel challenges been to date?
Our biggest challenge has been to provide our travellers with an easy booking solution that gives them the best options available at a glance, in line with our travel policy for their travel arrangements, without taking up valuable time when booking their travel. In addition, managing cost against convenience and ease of travel is an ongoing challenge.
Why did you start using Travelit?
We were in the market for an online booking solution. Travelit made an impressive proposal by building the system around our specific needs and requirements. They incorporated our travel policy guidelines, while offering us an easy-to-use booking system which decreased our monthly expenditure. The platform also allows us to manage our travel more effectively.
How has Travelit made doing business easier?
We have seen a big change in travel behaviour and travellers are more aware of unnecessary costs that can be avoided when booking travel. Travel booking time (once travel bookers became used to the system) has also decreased, which allows travel bookers to utilise the extra time more efficiently.
What benefits have you experienced as a Travelit client?
We have seen a big decrease in our missed savings, which means that our travellers are booking in line with our travel policy by utilising the parameters that have been set up in Travelit. Our contracts with certain suppliers are also maintained on the Travelit platform, which allows us to utilise the lowest rate to keep in line with our travel policy. The ease of booking online at any time when travel is required is an additional benefit. We have reduced our paperwork by being online, and uploading data into our accounting system has made the process simple and efficient.
Why would you recommend Travelit to other businesses?
Travelit is efficient in terms of booking travel, cost-effective and allows for flexibility where required.
What makes Travelit the best in the market?
- Multi-leg international routings
- Travel behaviour reports
- Alternative solution to bill-backs
- Tracked booking patterns
- Accommodation feedback solution
- Comprehensive fare calculator.
