Club Travel snaps up travel management solution

Club Travel snaps up travel
management solution CLUB Travel has acquired corporate
travel and expense management
solution, Travellinck.
The system allows TMCs to control
travel expenditure from requisition to
reconciliation, enabling cost savings,
easy travel policy enforcement,
streamlined processes and accurate
reporting. It also allows real-time
booking of flights, accommodation and
car hire with a payment platform that
enables direct settlement to suppliers
and automatic reconciliation of card
statements.
Wally Gaynor, md of Club Travel, said
Travellinck would remain a standalone
entity continuing with its TMC agnostic
approach while also benefiting from the
backing of the Club/Thebe Group.
Commenting on the acquisition, he
said: “We needed a strong technology
platform to develop and integrate
features not currently in the market in
order to give us a competitive edge.”
The well-established system offers
a number of benefits to corporates,
suppliers, agencies and banks. Agent
processes are simplified through
an integrated GDS and non-GDS
simultaneous search accessing both
public and private fares. Reports can
be drawn on a traveller, cost centre,
business unit, travel booker and travel
approver level.
Under Club Travel ownership,
Travellinck will continue to aim squarely
at the corporate market with some new
features and functions added to the
already well-established platform.
“We have other solutions for the
SMME and leisure markets and there is
no integration between systems, such
as GetThere and Travellinck,” explained
Wally. “We recognised long ago that
the one-size-fits-all corporate booking
tool does not exist. We evaluate each
client’s needs and offer the system
that fits them. This makes us unique
in comparison with other TMCs that
generally offer only one product.”