The tools also generate detailed financial information to help travel managers get the best possible deal.
Mr. Mann said, "Travel managers are now incentivized to continue the trend to low-fare carriers".
"Travel managers have to do more with less," the association said in its latest market survey report.
For the traveler and travel manager, it becomes something that's extraordinarily difficult to bring clarity to".
And one thing is clear from my conversations with business travelers, travel managers, air travel analysts and even government officials.
"Travel risk management was not on the radar of a travel manager 10 years ago," he said.
The travel manager's dilemma and the overall trends in corporate travel suggest that travel-management companies and traditional vendors will have to evolve.
His mother is the travel manager at Nypro, an injection-molding company in Clinton, Mass.
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What's customer service?" one travel manager said in responding to the survey.
Christa Metcalf, the travel manager for the Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corporation near Chicago, explained the trend.
