American Express Business Travel enhances its traveler security and benefit programmes
As part of its strategy to help business travel programme managers gain greater control over and savings from their employees' travel itineraries, American Express Business Travel has announced enhancements to two of its traveler security and benefit
Published: 16 Aug 2005
As part of its strategy to help business travel programme managers gain greater control over and savings from their employees' travel itineraries, American Express Business Travel has announced enhancements to two of its traveler security and benefit
Andy McGraw, senior vice president and general manager, American Express Business Travel, said with TrackPoint and Preferred Extras, American Express Business Travel continues to ensure that its "clients not only receive the most rigorous traveler security solutions but also the best negotiated travel deals."
McGraw added that by helping companies to quickly identify and locate their travelers in the event of an emergency and by delivering additional corporate savings, these two solutions also align with travel manager efforts to motivate and improve compliance with established travel policies and designated travel plans.
McGraw said, "TrackPoint and Preferred Extras, specifically, provide business travelers every reason they'd need to book within corporate policy: be located more quickly should the unexpected calamity strike; receive value-added hotel perks; shave T&E line-item costs."
The company stated that effective immediately, TrackPoint, a web-based application, designed to help travel managers as well as risk and security departments to quickly and globally locate their business travelers beset by unexpected events and crises, such as severe weather or terrorist acts, will be made available to the company's U.S.-based clients.
"Furthermore, the Preferred Extras' special savings rates and amenity offers, first introduced in 2004, will now apply to nearly 10,000 hotel properties located in 3,400 cities and 140 countries worldwide. Preferred Extras is currently available globally," stated the company.