Optimise your business travel program with CTM’s online booking tool – Lightning
Is your team’s travel booking behaviour aligned with your business travel program goals for savings, efficiency and traveller safety?
If your business is looking to increase policy compliance, improve budget control, simplify supplier management, and strengthen duty of care, a smart online booking solution is essential.
Corporate Travel Management’s (CTM’s) Lightning is designed to do just that. Lightning integrates your travel policy, preferred suppliers, and user-specific compliance settings into one streamlined platform, eliminating manual workarounds and driving better outcomes across your business travel program.
Book smarter, faster, all in one place
Lightning gives your team access to flights, hotels, car rentals, and rail bookings through a single, user-friendly interface. With content sourced from GDS, low-cost carriers, and last-minute inventory, travellers can compare options side by side and book at the best available rates with no need to search across multiple sites.
The platform’s flexibility allows travel options to be customised, so your preferred suppliers and negotiated rates are prioritised in search results. This ensures that employees are guided toward choices that maximise value and policy alignment.
By centralising bookings, Lightning supports efficient travel planning, increases visibility for managers, and strengthens supplier compliance to help you get the most from your travel spend.
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Gain control and visibility over travel spend
Lightning offers real-time visibility and detailed reporting across air, hotel, car rental and rail bookings. Configurable supplier preferencing tools help guide travel bookers to cost-effective choices based on traveller role and purpose of travel.
Out-of-policy bookings are flagged instantly, helping reduce missed savings opportunities and promoting accountability. Lightning’s policy compliance reporting also highlights common reasons for non-compliance, supporting ongoing policy refinement and targeted training.
For example, reports might reveal that travellers favour options based on sustainability features, on-time performance, or proximity to key locations, all valuable insights for adjusting travel policies and supplier negotiations.
Strengthen duty of care
Employee safety and wellbeing are central to an effective travel program. Lightning supports this through features that track itineraries, enforce risk-based approval workflows, and provide managers with real-time access to traveller location data in case of unexpected events.
With mobile functionality and integrated communication tools, your business can stay connected with travellers and respond quickly to changes or risks as they arise.
Enforce travel policy in decentralised workforces
In today’s hybrid and remote work environment, consistent policy adoption can be challenging. Lightning simplifies this by embedding policy controls directly into the booking workflow, no matter where your employees are based. And with CTM’s mobile app, travellers can manage bookings and receive updates on the go.
Ready to improve your travel program?
Whether your goal is cost savings, policy enforcement, risk mitigation, or traveller satisfaction, Lightning puts you in control. From role-based budgets and approval flows to dynamic content filtering and robust reporting, CTM’s Lightning empowers businesses to align their travel strategy with business goals.
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