In the past couple months a lot of us flew all over the world: Berlin, Istanbul offsite, Devcon, team offsites, …
I found quite the flights/hotels/train bookings experience had some friction (is that budget OK? Let’s check Airbnb, Booking, Expedia, Liligo, … as well) and could be streamlined just like Expensify does for expenses.
Hey @mamy! Thanks for the feedback and the suggestion - if people think it would be helpful to have something like this in place, we can definitely take a look and see what the pros/cons of getting a corporate account there would be (in fact I believe we already do use it on a very limited basis for some trips). Booking travel can eat up a lot of time and energy, so I hear you on the friction - would be nice if we could make that easier for you all.
@all - please give Mamy’s post a like if you want us to look into this - if there’s enough interest I will follow up. Cheers!
Another side benefits is that if we all use this tool, I expect we could ask them to give us our kilometers flown. From that we could infer our carbon footprint.
That could be used for various purposes:
CSR figures (Corporate Social Responsibility)
“what if we had offices with heating, commute, …” comparison
I do already use Travelperk, when people ask me for help with bookings. I think its a great tool. I am happy to setup so that everyone can have an account to use for their travel bookings.
That will be awesome, thanks @rajanie! Wondering if it’s also worth updating our travel booking page on people-ops.status.im with instructions on how to use?
but sure, I think it’s worth looking into too 