ACTE Research & Whitepapers

ACTE provides you with a variety of research and white papers that can help to guide readers to understand the various components that must come together in a unified fashion for a successful travel programme including the evolving expectations and needs of the modern business traveller, and the support to the travel managers with both today's challenges and tomorrow's future.

Future of Travel Management TMC’s and Travel Buyer’s strive to meet a similar goal in providing an efficient and convenient booking process for corporate travellers; however, each group has its own perceptions of travellers’ needs and pain points when booking and managing their travel. Read More
New Research Seeks to Advance Management in Corporate Travel In a world of increased digitisation, corporate travel managers are experiencing a gulf between the metrics they say are important to assessing the quality of their programmes, and those that they actually measure, according to a new survey of travel managers. Read More	The evolution of air distribution: how will it impact your travel programme? For decades, the corporate travel booking process has operated in basically the same way. While the system worked in simpler times, it’s needed to be updated for quite some time. We could be closing in on drastic change. Read More
Hotel Safety: A Guide to Staying Safe for Employers & Travellers This study from ACTE Global and International SOS offers insights into where travel managers can improve their hotel programmes to mitigate company risk and positively impact traveller wellbeing. Read More	A New Horizon in Hotel Sourcing More than half of programmes have made some change in the approach to hotel sourcing in the past three years. Read More
Balancing travel tools & policy for the right traveler experience How can you balance offering travellers an ability to manage their own experience to the benefit of your travel programme? Read More	Promoting policy compliance Progressive travel managers adopt a range of strategies to encourage compliance. Download infographic
Simplifying Managed Travel The world of managed business travel has become increasingly complex as we seek to align seemingly irreconcilable aims. Download whitepaper	New Approaches to Hotel Sourcing The digital revolution has transformed travel – but one corner of managed business travel seems stuck in the old fashioned and inef cient manual practices of the past.  Download whitepaper
Managing the Modern Business Traveller The modern business traveller continues to evolve: ACTE members, around the world, are seeing growing signs that this independently-minded individual is becoming the new normal, across all demographics, for managed travel.  Download whitepaper	Take the lead on duty of care for the modern business traveller Modern business traveller anxieties about personal safety continue to grow. Download infographic
Meet the Modern Business Traveller Insights into the lives of today's corporate travellers. Download whitepaper	The role of traveller centricity in business air travel A nice-to-have or a fundamental? Download whitepaper
Serving the multifaceted modern business traveller The modern business traveller - first identified by ACTE in 2016 - continues to evolve. Download infographic	The Evolution of Airline Agreements A view from corporate travel buyers. Download whitepaper