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Travelling After the Pandemic: Interview With a Frequent Traveller
As the economy slowly re-opens, we may be a few months away from an easing of travel restrictions. While most businesses will likely continue to favor videoconferencing as a safer alternative to travel, some companies’ operations are global in nature – for them...
The Benefits of Working With a TMC
The Basics Sending people out into the world is pretty complicated. You need to make travel arrangements, keep travellers safe, and reconcile all the expenses, all the while keeping spending down as much as possible. And that’s simplifying quite a bit. Travel...
COVID-19: Encore, Still Going Strong
Hi Everyone, We hope that your families and yourselves are staying safe and healthy in this time of turmoil. Leaning on our values of Trustworthiness, Innovation and Perseverance, our services are uninterrupted. The support we provide is essential and my team is proud...
5 Tips to Reduce Your Employees Travel Expenses
Different people have different mentalities about business travel. For some, it’s worth paying any amount for. If your people need to travel, the purpose of the trip is more important than the expense, right? Others (us included) see business travel as a treasure...
4 Questions to Ask of Your Travel Partner
So, you recently decided to partner up with a travel management company (TMC) to handle your business travel. That’s a great start, but actually finding and choosing an agency that jives with your company and fulfills its needs can be a challenge in its own right....
Unexpected Expenses That Hurt at the End of the Year
Why is it that when that end-of-year report comes around, there’s this feeling of dread, even after careful budgeting? It’s just like the feeling of getting your report card at the end of term, and even though you’ve studied, there’s this sense of nagging worry that...
5 Signs that Your Corporate Travel Management Solution Just Isn’t Right
If corporate travel falls under your purview, you’re probably wondering whether the solution your company uses is actually doing you any favours. After all, if your company is paying someone else to manage business travel, you don’t want to end up doing their work for...
The Relevance of Face-To-Face Networking
In this digital era, you’d be forgiven for assuming that face-to-face communication isn’t relevant anymore. Given our comfort with email and video-calls, it definitely seems plausible. Some business meetings are even being conducted through VR! That being said,...
Encore Celebrates WBE Certification
We are very proud to announce that Encore Travel has been granted the WeConnect WBE (Women’s Business Enterprise) certification! Monique Mardinian, our founder and CEO, has worked for decades to shape the industry into what it is today, all by running the most loved...
Encore Travel’s Journey to B Corp Certification
For us at Encore, to be the world’s most loved travel partner, we must commit to loving the world right back. That is why, this summer, Encore Travel has committed to joining the likes of Patagonia to work towards achieving the coveted B Corporation certification....
