Forward Bookings Update - Friday, 15 November 2019
Travel Analytics Update - Forward Bookings
Friday, 15 November 2019
Travel To High-Risk Destinations
The first is the management of forward travel to high-risk destinations. By default, we provide a link to bookings to DFAT high-risk destinations, including countries with Reconsider Your Travel and Do Not Travel risk ratings.
It’s a nice little feature, however, it is dependent on DFAT updating is country risk ratings in a timely manner, which they may not do for political and social reasons.
Monitoring Potential Risk
This brings us to the second feature: the ability to add countries that don’t fall within the default DFAT risk ratings. An organisation might want to do this if they are concerned with growing political and social issues within a specific country and they want to proactively monitor future travel to that location.
How it Works
As you can see from the data below, our sample organisation doesn’t have any future travel to any high-risk destinations.
Now we are going to add a country that we want to monitor future (or booked) travel. To do this, you simply navigate to the Administration module, click on the settings tab and click the edit link adjacent to the organisation you wish to update.
In this screen, we can do one of two things. First, we can add another DFATR risk level (i.e. High Caution) or we can add a specific country, for example, Hong Kong in the High-Risk Countries field as shown below.
Now you have entered a country, navigate back to the Forward Bookings dashboard and refresh the screen. If there are trips booked to the country you have entered, the Trips to High-Risk Destinations data will update displaying the number of future bookings as shown below.
Clicking on the Trip to High-Risk Destinations link will display details of the bookings, including the TMC booking reference, traveller name, airline, departure date, destination and expenditure. This information can be downloaded as a .pdf or .csv file so it can be distributed throughout the organisation (see below).
This is a very handy feature to help you monitor travel to high-risk countries either temporarily or permanently without too much effort.