Does a day go by when someone doesn’t ask how your business is doing? Probably not and in today’s environment you either reluctantly respond or maybe you had a great day; either way you try to answer in a positive manner. How about your travel budget? No changes at all, cutbacks, necessary trips only – or use of videoconference? Here’s some interesting information for you, Safe Harbors latest poll in February 2009, 58% of the respondents said there were no changes in travel planned for 2009, 11% said they would actually increase and the remaining 31% said they would be decreasing travel budgets.

Okay, probably nothing new and you may have seen some variation of these numbers in other resources. Why not make changes? The time is now to strike when the discount opportunities are hot. Your may not be traveling us much as you were a year ago but take a look at your vendors – Airlines, Car Rental, Hotels, etc. and negotiate a better program. These vendors (including Safe Harbors) need your business and are willing to bank on the future. Again, you may not be traveling as much today but you will be tomorrow. We’ve been here before and when its time to hit the road again you’re deals will be in place and your negotiating efforts will realize tremendous savings. Don’t have time or are not sure where the deals are? Safe Harbors does this everyday – we know where the deals are. Lets us help you uncover the deals!

There are many steps that can be taken to weather this economic downturn without having to cut your travel budget. Travel is essential for staying ahead of competition and satisfying the needs of your customers. Tracking and utilizing unused tickets is a great way to divert from throwing away cash.

Tracking and utilizing money already spent translates into less expenses and success in managing the travel budget of your company. Safe Harbors Travel Group keeps track of your unused air tickets; providing monthly updates, notifying the traveler either in their CliqBook profile or while working with our agent team. Keeping you updated on any unused tickets helps to ensure that you are using up monies already committed.

We at Safe Harbors are committed to providing you with the tools you need to stay ahead of the game from lowest logical air fares at the time of purchase and programs to help you better manage how your travel budget is spent. Our tools and programs can help you save up to 20% on the travel that keeps you ahead of the game.