Corporate Traveller ends year on high
Corporate Traveller, the UK’s largest travel management company specialising in clients with an SME business travel spend of £50,000 to £2 million, has ended its 2017/18 financial year on a high after winning new business with a total spend of £89 million.
In addition, the TMC saw a £13 million increase year-on-year in traded new business turnover to reach £50 million for the 12 months ending June 30 2018.
Clients signed by Corporate Traveller since July 2017 include Maritime Craft Services, providers of support vessels to the marine construction and maintenance industries, and Taylor Hopkinson, a global recruitment company specialising in renewable energy. Both clients are managed by Corporate Traveller’s Glasgow office.
In addition, Corporate Traveller in Birmingham was appointed to handle Freeman Group, a leading global brand experience, exhibition and event design company based in Coventry, whose employees travel throughout the EMEA region.
Client sectors where Corporate Traveller saw a significant increase in new business year-on-year include consulting, up 37%; technology, up 26%; fashion, up 43% and oil and gas, up 31%.
UK general manager Andy Hegley said: "We have invested heavily in enhancing our technology offering, new products and services, specifically tailored to our clients’ business needs, which has contributed to our growth over the last 12 months."
Lisa
Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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