KPMG Deploys GetThere to Save -- pound -- 1m on Travel Annually.Business Editors/Travel Writers LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 2002 The British arm of international professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. firm KPMG KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm) KPMG Kaiser Permanente Medical Group KPMG Keiner Prüft Mehr Genau (German) KPMG Kommen Prüfen Meckern Gehen has contracted with GetThere, a Sabre company, to use the GetThere DirectCorporate online self-booking tool for business travel. Nearly 10,000 KPMG staff based in the UK will be encouraged to use the system to book all point-to-point business travel. KPMG has an annual air travel spend of approximately (pound)10 million, and anticipates annual savings in the region of (pound)1 million as a result of the implementation. The company's e-enabling programme manager, Alan Dean Alan R. Dean is a British ornithologist with a special interest in gulls. He lives in Solihull, West Midlands. He is a member of the West Midland Bird Club (whose Annual Reports for 1972-1974 he edited) and was a member of the British Birds Rarities Committee from 1984-1992. , said greater compliance with corporate travel policy would enhance KPMG's bargaining power with travel providers, while other savings would stem from the use of less expensive travel options. "One of the interesting benefits of the online booking approach is that employees tend to make fiscally responsible choices when presented with a range of options, including less expensive alternatives. This results in lower travel costs for the firm and our clients", Dean said. He said KPMG had decided to use an online self-booking tool in order to streamline the booking of frequently repeated trips, and to help remove stages of the booking process that added little value. While staff will be encouraged to book all point-to-point travel through GetThere DirectCorporate, more complicated itineraries will continue to be dealt with by KPMG's travel management company, BTI BTI Beverage Testing Institute BTI Boyce Thompson Institute BTI British American Tobacco (stock symbol) BTI Boston Theological Institute Bti Bacillus Thuringiensis Israelensis BTI BioTechnology Institute BTI Binding Tariff Information UK. "Our use of GetThere DirectCorporate for basic bookings will free up BTI UK's consultants to deal with more high-value business from us and from their other clients", Dean said. KPMG's implementation of GetThere DirectCorporate brings to 45 the number of European companies using the product. Dean said KPMG had evaluated several corporate online self-booking systems, but had selected the GetThere product for its ease of deployment, its widespread use elsewhere around the world, and its ability to operate with all of the four main global distribution systems. GetThere vice president and general manager for Europe, Richard Adams, said acceptance of online self-booking tools was increasing rapidly throughout Europe. "While a small percentage of European travel is online today, it is increasing rapidly as companies look at new ways to cut travel costs," Adams said. "Europe's top 1,000 companies book many millions of business trips each year. On this scale, online self-booking tools for corporate travel represent huge opportunity for substantial savings." A survey released by GetThere in August showed that most of its customers were seeing 15 percent lower airfares on average, and 43 percent lower travel agency fees for trips booked online. GetThere DirectCorporate is the company's top-level offering, aimed at companies that spend more than (pound)8 million a year on business travel. Its mid-range product, GetThere DirectMidMarket, is distributed in the UK as `Your Travel Manager' in association with British Airways, and by Sabre, as Corporate.Res. About GetThere GetThere, a Sabre Company, is the leading provider of Web-based travel reservation systems for companies and airlines. GetThere's systems are used to provide Web-based travel procurement including air, hotel, car and meeting planning to employees at leading companies such as American Management Systems American Management Systems (previous NASDAQ symbol: AMSY) was founded in 1970 as a technology and management consulting firm. It was founded by a group of five former United States Department of Defense officials who worked under Robert McNamara in the Kennedy and Johnson , Boeing, Cable and Wireless, Charles Schwab, ChevronTexaco, Cisco, Credit Suisse First Boston Credit Suisse First Boston was originally the trading name of the Financière Crédit Suisse-First Boston, a London-based 50-50 investment banking joint venture formed in 1978 between the First Boston Corporation and Credit Suisse. , Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA FIFA International Association Football Federation [French Fédération Internationale de Football Association] FIFA n abbr (= Fédération Internationale de Football Association) → FIFA f ), Honeywell, Nike, PricewaterhouseCoopers and SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. Communications. GetThere also powers Web-based travel booking for leading airlines, including British Airways, Air New Zealand Parameter not given Error... ''Template needs its first parameter as beg[in], mid[dle], or end. Parameter not given Error... , Alitalia, All Nippon Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways, National Airlines and United Airlines. GetThere LP is wholly owned by Sabre Holdings Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : TSG TSG The Smoking Gun (web site) TSG Technology Services Group (UK) TSG Technical Specification Group TSG Timing Signal Generator TSG Technical Support Group TSG Tumor Suppressor Gene TSG ThermoSalinoGraph ), the leading provider of technology and marketing services for the travel industry. More information on Sabre can be found at www.sabre.com. Additional information about GetThere can be found on the Web at www.GetThere.com. |
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