By Will Tucker, Sales Executive
In most cases, having some type of Strategic Meetings Management Solution (SMM) is essential in today’s world of planning and managing events and conferences. However, there are several different pieces that make up a complete SMM Solution – Event, Travel and Spend Management. Everyone seems to know the importance of the Event and Spend Management Solutions. The Event Management gathers the registration information from attendees, the Spend Management allows for a company to track how much money they are spending on all these events – but what are a few benefits to having a Travel Management Solution?
- Save Time: A Travel Management Solutions can be a huge time saver to an Event Planner. Without a Travel Management Solution, event planner may spend hours and hours in Excel manually entering travel information. That process is now able to be automated.
- Organization: If a planner is organizing flights for attendees to an event, chances are, they are also organizing transportation to and from the airport. A Travel Management Solution can help you organize this by keeping reports for arrival and departure times of attendees in a centralized location.
- Eliminating Mistakes: With an automated Travel Management Solution comes piece of mind by eliminating the possibility for human error. Manual matching of flight information to registered attendees has its flaws. Ex. Are the reports you are receiving from your travel department up to date? Duplicates – Are there attendees that have the same first and last name? Do the hotel check-in and check-out dates match the flight arrival and departure dates? A Travel Management Software solution can help you eliminate problem like this which are often made when organizing an event manually.
