NEPO507 Travel Management Services is available for use by the entire UK public sector and boasts a range of benefits to contracting authorities.

In addition, a traveller education programme is available at no extra cost, which includes 200 training resources and communications.

Contracting authorities have access to TravelPerk’s award-winning travel booking system, Travel Cloud, which gives individual users the freedom to book their own travel in accordance with their organisation's travel policies.

The core services include:

Air Travel:

• Domestic
• International
• Low Cost

Rail Travel:

• National Rail
• Eurostar
• Continental Europe
• International

Hotel Accommodation:

• GDS (Global Distribution System) – a system that distributes travel products to agents around the world, consolidating products and services across airline reservations, hotel reservations and car rentals
• Non GDS – includes access to Online Travel Agents (OTMs) via direct connects to suppliers
• Bill back facilities

Ancillary:

• Car Rental
• Access to the major car rental companies worldwide
• Prepaid all-inclusive packages
• Bill back facilities

The system offers line manager approval if required, ensuring that budget holders are kept up to date and informed at all times, as well as allowing organisations to fully integrate their travel policy within the system. Travel Cloud also allows real time access to your organisation’s management information and even enables the use of cost codes in order to capture departmental spend, affording complete visibility of how you book travel at all times.