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Talixo signs agreement with Flight Centre Travel Group to provide global transfers for business travel
Global transfers operator, Talixo, has today announced the signing of a worldwide partnership to provide pre-booked ground transfers for Flight Centre Travel Group’s (ASX:FLT) flagship corporate travel businesses.
The agreement expands on Talixo’s existing relationship with the global Brisbane-based travel agency group, which encompasses pre-booked transfers for their leisure travel division and UK corporate travel branches.
Now, consultants worldwide working for Flight Centre Travel Group’s business travel brands, including FCM Travel and Corporate Traveller, will be able to offer competitive, reliable airport transfers and point-to-point rides in 1,100+ cities and 130+ countries globally, pre-bookable via their GDS.
Despite providing essential connectivity, transfers remain an overlooked part of the business travel experience, with corporates often working with a limited number of local operators in key office locations, or leaving team members to make their own arrangements, with little or no oversight or control.
And, while the business travel community is increasingly looking to public transportation as part of their sustainability and carbon reduction strategies, these options can be limited, time-consuming and unreliable, especially in destinations lacking sophisticated transport infrastructure.
Jens Luik, talixo Head of Global Sales, commented:
Business travellers want to know that no matter where they travel, they have access to safe, reliable transportation. As the leading global operator of pre-booked ground transfers, our local and tech-enabled fleet operation allows us to deliver consistent, high-quality ride experiences on a global scale.
This gives travel management partners the confidence to provide their corporate clients with a value-adding end-to-end offering that brings first-mile-last-mile costs under control. This is an area where Flight Centre Travel Group, in particular, excels, and we’re delighted to be expanding our partnership to enhance their offering to corporate clients and their business travellers.
Mandy Dunbier, Global Supply Partnerships Manager at Flight Centre Travel Group, commented:
Business trips don’t start or end at the airport or train station. Providing a true end-to-end service not only gives our corporate clients confidence that their travellers are receiving the best in duty of care, but it also makes their journeys easier and less stressful, which in turn drives greater policy compliance, visibility, and cost control.
Our partnership with talixo gives our branches and regional partners access to competitive, quality standard car services, perfect for day-to-day rides and transfers where premium limousine services wouldn’t be appropriate. Combined with talixo’s extensive geographic coverage and globally standardised experience, it reinforces our best-in-market end-to-end offering to clients worldwide.
About Talixo
Founded in 2012, Berlin-based Talixo Services GmbH (“Talixo”) is the leading global operator of pre-booked ground transfers to the international travel industry. Trusted by the world’s biggest travel brands, Talixo provides turn-key private transfers to businesses including OTAs, wholesalers, travel agencies, tour operators, TMCs and corporates, with millions of rides booked each year.
Accessible via Talixo’s robust API, web and app-based white-labels, and configurable, multi-user agency and corporate portals provide comprehensive support across all touch points, allowing travel brands to provide their customers with personalized transfer offers regardless of booking channel, creating better, more connected customer experiences while driving enhanced ancillary revenue and profitability.
A proprietary cloud-based fleet management system and driver app empower fleet partners and their drivers to increase fleet efficiency and utilization, resulting in sustainable, best-in-class prices and customer-centric features such as enhanced booking flexibility (booking lead times of as little as three hours and free cancellation/modification up to three hours before pick-up), real-time GPS driver tracking and 24/7 multilingual Talixo customer support.
Flight Centre Travel Group
The Flight Centre Travel Group (ASX:FLT) is one of the world’s largest travel retailers and corporate travel managers.
The company, which is headquartered in Brisbane, employs about 15,000 people globally and has company-owned leisure and/or corporate travel business in 25 countries, spanning Australia/New Zealand (ANZ), the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and Asia.
The company opened its first leisure travel shop in Sydney (Australia) in 1982 and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in 1995. Today, it has a market capitalisation in the order of $AU4billion.
Flagship leisure travel brands include Flight Centre, Travel Associates, Scott Dunn. Envoyage, Travel Money, Ignite (MyHolidays), Cruiseabout, BYOjet, Aunt Betty, and StudentUniverse.
FLT’s corporate travel brands include Corporate Traveller and FCM Travel.