Safeture and Traxo announce new partnership

Sweden-based employee safety company Safeture and Dallas-based Traxo, which provides corporate travel data capture and intelligence, have announced a new partnership. Through Traxo, Safeture customers are able to access detailed corporate travel itinerary data for bookings that were made outside their travel program. The increased location awareness insight enabled by Traxo’s travel data capture solution helps reduce itinerary blindspots for corporate travel teams, empowering them to keep their traveling employees safer. According to a recent survey by DVI, an average of 31 percent of all 2019 air, hotel and car business travel spend was made up of out-of-channel bookings, creating an average of $11.3 million of invisible travel spend per company. The Traxo service enables the Safeture platform to import travel itineraries as they are created.  All travel booking confirmations sent to an employee’s company email address will be automatically transmitted to the Safeture platform without requiring any extra steps or actions by the traveler. All trip cancellations, changes or updates are also automatically posted to the Safeture app, enabling optimal duty-of-care coverage before, during, and after the business trip. Safeture Chief Executive Officer Magnus Hultman commented: “It’s not uncommon for business travelers to book segments of their trips outside their company’s designated corporate travel policy or online booking tool. Traxo’s comprehensive itinerary data capture technology ensures those flight, hotel and ground transport booking details are incorporated automatically into the Safeture platform, instead of relying on the traveler to manually enter those itinerary details or remember to forward them to us. Traxo Founder and Chief Executive Officer Andres Fabris commented: “Since many international airlines and hotels are not listed in the global distribution systems (GDSs) commonly used by corporate travel agencies, business travellers occasionally book directly with their preferred airline, hotel or other travel provider, creating itinerary blindspots for their employers. Our partnership with Safeture helps companies enhance their duty of care by obtaining complete, pre-trip visibility on all employee travel bookings, regardless of where they are booked.”