Companies 'should keep tabs on their business travellers'

Firms with sales managers and executives who frequently travel abroad on business trips should ensure they are able to trace their staff in case of emergency, it has been claimed.

Gill Upton, editor of the Business Travel Magazine, commented that companies should make a record of hotels and airlines used by their employees in case they have to contact them at short notice.

"The employees should also have their wits about them and not go around looking like wealthy foreign tourists," she added.

Ms Upton went on to say enterprises should also have good travel tracking data and management information about where all their workers are, as well as ensuring they are complying with the company's travel policies.

Research conducted in October last year by the Business Travel Coalition indicated 25.5 per cent of companies had emergency travel cutbacks as a direct result of the financial crisis.

The study also found 34.4 per cent claimed the cutbacks took the form of straight-up travel freezes.

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Filed: 05-02-2009