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Insights and Ideas for
Managing Business Travel In a New Era

tClara's Newest White Paper

One clear goal.

Two KPIs.

Four integrated strategies.

Six pre-booking tasks.

Seven Path Forward steps.

34 exhibits across 45 pages.

Zero fluff.

The titel page is "The Strategically Sustainable Business Travel Program" on top; below is a picture of a forested mountaintop with an airpline silhouette in white.

"The Strategically Sustainable Business Travel Program"

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More thought leadership on carbon budgets, justified travel, business meetings, and traveler friction

Title page "The Justified Business Trip" under a photo of a businessman in a white dress shirt, back turned, points to a map
Title page "How We Meet Matters" over a photo of a small group of people meeting in a conference room
Title page "U.S. Road Warriors" over a picture of a business woman walking through an airport
Title page "U.S. Road Warriors" over a photo of a businessman walking with a roller suitcase through a city street
Title page "U.S. Road Warriors" over a photo of a businessman walking with a roller suitcase through a city street

2023

48 pages

2022

38 pages

2018

19 pages

2017

6 pages

2016

13 pages

Managing The CFO Who Wants to Cut Travel
Interior page explaining that carbon intensity based on dollar, or value-add, is key

Use these five powerful, prescriptive steps to have an inspiring discussion with any executive about the true value of business travel.

Download this 46-page PDF here. Need a shorter version for an executive team briefing?

Contact scott@tclara.com

Tomorrow's Travel Procurement Process "Should Be"
Interior page describing three principles for tomorrow's travel procurement

Are you willing to take a radically different approach to travel procurement?

Read this 15-page PDF, then contact scott@tclara.com for a courtesy consultation about how to sell these ideas to your management team.

Headline says "What if we're managing travel all wrong?" by Scott Gillespie dated Feb 22, 2023. Business Travel News logo.

~26,000 views   ~80 likes,

~40 comments

A newspaper-style headline says "the dawn of travel as a strategy"

Read the article here.

The logo for Business Travel News

~7,000 views   ~100 likes,

~30 comments

Take our 10-question

Travel Strategy Test here.

On
Justifiable
Travel

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~40,000 views   ~130 likes,

~65 comments

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10 Principles for Justifying Business Travel

10 Principles
A pink watering can over a pair of hands holding a small plant.

~7,000 views   ~70 likes,

~30 comments

Checklist for a Justifiable Business Trip

Travel Program Optimization -
Achieving Travel's Strategic Value

A GBTA Education Session
 
Aug. 16th, 2022

0:40   We don't "optimize"

3:40   We need a new strategy

9:00   "Less travel, better results"

14:05   Evidence of strategic value

20:25   The power of demand mgmt.

24:21   The need for better trip quality

30:45   Procurement implications

A title slide says "Selling Travel's Strategic Value" dated April 28 2022

What drives business travel?

A road warrior's value chain

Selected white paper findings

Managing travel strategically

Why business class is the greener choice

The Carbon Intensity KPI

A travel strategy scorecard

Selling travel's strategic value

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A Radically Better Way
of Managing Business Travel

Presented to a live audience of ~450 travel buyers and suppliers.

~90% were "intrigued" by these ideas.

Download the PDF

~7,500 views   ~140 likes,

~30 comments

~7,500 views   ~100 likes,

~50 comments

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Goal-Based deck

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On
Goal-based
Travel Management

The Case for Goal-based Travel Management

The Traveler Friction Concept, circa 2012

The horizontal axis is Travel Policy, the vertical axis is Cost. The Supplier cost curve descends from high-left to low-right. The Traveler friction cost curve ascends from low-left to high-right. The sume of the two curves is shown on top, concave toward the horizontal axis.

The cost of traveler friction must be factored into travel policies.

Learn more about traveler friction here.

Trip Friction(R) Benchmarks, circa 2016

Air Clarity Trip Friction Factor Benchmarks Short Haul Markets
Air Clarity Travel Business Goals report All Markets
Cover page of the whitepaper shows a businesswoman pulling a suitcase through an airport terminal.

Low-friction
Travel Policies
Mean Better
Business Results

This 19-page white paper shows how to improve trip success rates and reduce attrition risks among frequent travelers.

Click the image to download the PDF

How Should We Meet?

A GBTA Education Session
 
Aug. 16th, 2022

0:40    Conflicting forces at work

1:45    About the whitepaper

4:10    The value of meeting in person

8:20    5 decision-making lenses

14:47  A meeting culture lens

18:00  New travel-related priorities

21:10  "Less travel, better results"

30:00  Need for more prescriptive signals

1) Pre-trip Ratings at the 1:59 mark

2) Rich Universal Traveler Profiles at 4:00

3) Travel as a Strategy at 5:34

4) Edit Rights, aka Permissable Servicing by TMCs at 7:20

5) Airline Discounts Tied to Profit Margins at 8:30

5 New Business Travel Technologies We'll Use in 2031

~18,000 views   ~80 likes,

~40 comments

On The
Future of Business Travel

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~11,500 views   ~120 likes,

~60 comments

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A headline that says " Business Travel Has Peaked. Here's Our Future."
White letters on green background - BTN Business Travel News
A headline says "Savings is Travel's False God"
White letters on green background - BTN Business Travel News

Managed Travel 2.0 in 2012

Key Principles of Managed Travel 2.0 are

The catalyst for omnichannel booking strategies.

Learn more here.

Airline CO2 Modeling in 2007

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Scott Gillespie and Dr. Tom Tomosky developed TRX's best-in-class model for estimating cabin-specific airline passenger CO2 amounts.

Hotel Clusters in 2007

a map of the greater London UK area with 10 circles showing clusters of hotels.

The catalyst for hotel re-shopping services.

Learn more here.

a man is pushing a small cart in which a another man is seated, while holding an umbrella for shade.

Why TMCs Need
a Dramatically Different
Sales Approach

~2,000 views   ~100 likes,

~40 reshares

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