The Routespring Blog
Insights on business travel, cost control, traveler guides, and more.
Traveler Guides
Looking for the perfect destination for your next corporate retreat? This guide highlights the best places in the U.S. for a memorable and productive team offsite, with options for every budget, style, and objective.
Expense & Cost Control
A 30% boost in your travel ROI is not a fantasy; it's the result of a strategic, data-driven approach. This guide provides a clear playbook for achieving massive ROI gains by optimizing your T&E process, not just cutting costs.
Traveler Guides
The activities you choose can make or break a company retreat. This guide provides over 50 creative, engaging, and purposeful activity ideas to ensure your next team offsite is a memorable and impactful success.
Expense & Cost Control
A disconnected T&E process is a major source of inefficiency. This guide provides a framework for integrating your travel and expense tools, showing why a natively unified platform is the most powerful solution for a seamless workflow.
Expense & Cost Control
As your company grows, spreadsheets and manual processes for expense management quickly become unsustainable. This guide outlines the essential features of an expense management solution designed for a growing, scaling business.
Corporate Travel Policy
Managing travel for crew workers presents unique logistical and compliance challenges. This guide provides a framework for optimizing travel for field service teams, construction crews, and other mobile workforces.
Expense & Cost Control
An expense platform that doesn't talk to your other systems is a data silo. This guide provides the best practices for integrating your expense platform with your accounting, HR, and travel systems to create a truly automated and efficient T&E workflow.
Expense & Cost Control
For a travel-heavy team, the right expense management tool is critical. This guide provides a selection framework for travel managers, focusing on the features that matter most for a traveling workforce, from mobile receipt capture to travel policy integration.
Expense & Cost Control
Every company wants travel discounts, but most don't know how to get them. This guide reveals the real strategies for accessing hidden savings, from leveraging data for hotel negotiations to joining the right airline loyalty programs.
Traveler Guides
For a small team, a retreat is about deep connection and focused work. This guide explores unique and intimate locations perfect for small group retreats, from cozy mountain lodges to creative urban lofts, helping you plan a memorable and impactful offsite.
Travel Management
Choosing a corporate travel booking tool? This guide provides the essential features checklist you need to evaluate platforms and select a tool that will deliver control, efficiency, and a great user experience.
Corporate Travel Policy
A travel policy is useless if it isn't enforced. This guide explores how modern corporate travel booking tools use automation and smart design to ensure policy compliance, control costs, and guide employees to make better decisions.
Expense & Cost Control
In today's fast-paced business world, manual expense reporting is a significant drain on productivity. This article explores modern expense management solutions that automate workflows, provide real-time visibility, and give your finance team the tools they need for strategic success.
Traveler Guides
A company retreat is a strategic offsite designed to bring a team together for a specific purpose. This guide explains what a retreat is, the powerful benefits it can provide, and why your team needs one now more than ever.
Travel Management
The corporate travel landscape is dominated by a few major players, but size doesn't always mean success. We rank the largest TMCs and explore how modern, agile platforms are changing the game.
Travel Management
Modern travel software can do a lot more than just book flights. This guide reveals some of the surprisingly powerful, 'secret' capabilities of a modern travel platform that can transform your T&E program.
Travel Management
A self-booking tool is a win-win. This guide explores the dual benefits of OBTs, showing how they empower employees with a better experience while giving finance teams the control and visibility they need.
Travel Management
Think professional travel management is only for big corporations? Think again. This guide breaks down the best affordable travel software for small businesses, showing you how to gain control and save money without a big budget.
Expense & Cost Control
Corporate travel discounts can be a valuable source of savings. This guide cuts through the marketing noise to highlight the airline and hotel loyalty programs that are actually worth joining for your business.
Travel Management
For a small business, managing travel can be chaotic. This practical guide provides a step-by-step roadmap for how a small business can professionalize its travel booking, gain control over costs, and save valuable time.
Traveler Guides
A great mobile app is a business traveler's most important tool. We review and compare the top travel management apps for iOS and Android, focusing on user experience, booking functionality, and expense management.
Expense & Cost Control
Spend management platforms are reshaping T&E. This guide ranks the top players like Ramp, Brex, and Navan, and compares their card-first approach to the truly unified travel and expense platforms like Routespring.
Expense & Cost Control
Manual expense reports are a black hole for productivity. This guide reviews the top expense reporting tools that are specifically designed to save you and your finance team hours of work every single month through smart automation.
Travel Management
A company getaway is a major investment in your team's morale and your company's culture. This guide provides a complete playbook for planning a truly unforgettable trip, from choosing a destination to designing a memorable agenda.