Amadeus Cytric Travel & Expense, an end-to-end solution for corporate travel managers, is now available to businesses in Asia.
According to Albert Pozo, president at Amadeus Asia Pacific, this is the first fully integrated travel management tool that incorporates the entire corporate travel process, including hotel and flight booking, duty of care, travel policy, reimbursement, expense reporting, and more, under one platform accessible via desktop and mobile devices.
With Cytric, corporates can directly access Amadeus’ GDS inventory without having to go through an agent or TMC.
Travel managers can also enable their travellers to book trips themselves while using Cytric to ensure bookings are made within standing travel policy frameworks.
Essentially, the solution empowers companies to be able to cost-effectively self-manage their work trips. The ability to cancel bookings, compare fares, alter flight seatings, input corporate negotiated rates, and more, can all be done within the system.
Quick to address the continued need for TMCs is Frederic Saunier, head of corporate IT at Amadeus Asia Pacific, who said: “Amadeus will never become a TMC. The ability to serve the traveller who is on the road is something we will never do.”
Saunier points to the fact that corporates can choose to merely utilise the expense management portion of the solution while still allowing TMCs to manage travel bookings for them.
