Other Travel Services

Our corporate travel specialists will be pleased to conduct a free audit of your travel arrangements, including all the processes from pre trip authorisation through research of best solutions , quotation comparisons, fulfilment, accounting, MIS and handling travellers’ complaints about the travel providers.

With non-client organisations, we will almost certainly be able to suggest opportunities for improvements in efficiency, effectiveness and saving cost.

Whether you are needing to entertain guests on home ground or on an “away fixture”, Medway Travel can take away the hassle involved, by providing ideas and making arrangements for you, all within an agreed budget.

You may like to visit our specialist Groups & Events section  or our Corporate entertainment page for further information about the wide scope of this service

Many companies never get round to drafting and agreeing a travel policy with their staff, having insufficient previous experience to "take the plunge". However it has been found that generally - including in quite small firms - such a policy can save 20 - 25% of the historic travel budget.

These savings come from a number of contributory factors such as:

• Improved fares/hotel rates through the consolidation of spend with fewer vendors
• Reduced accounting costs through consolidation of spend through one billing account, instead of staff all doing their own thing with a multiplicity of organisations requiring separate payments. It is commonly held that vetting individual invoices and making individual payments can cost a company upwards of £50 an invoice.
• Saving staff from spending valuable time researching, often diligently, and sometimes getting distracted by, the Internet, but not necessarily finding the best fares.
• Much improved transparency reducing the temptation to slide through the occasional premium class airfare or higher star rated hotel, on the basis that either it wont be noticed or a claimed "lack of availability" of the cheaper alternative.
• The travel agent knowing the travel policy and querying with the appropriate authority, any requests which fall outside that policy.

Medway Travel will be pleased to assist clients in the drafting, and later, the implementation, of a policy based on your needs and our extensive experience.

A party or event can raise your company's profile and generate goodwill with clients. Your guests will remember a great event for a very long time, and we have the experience to ensure your events are always a real success.

Please see our Groups & Events section for more details, and contact us with your plans and requirements

Have you a prize you wish to give to a member of staff or for a marketing competition? Maybe a personal gift you want to buy for a special occasion and the deadline is fast approaching?

Perhaps we can help with this age-old problem - We offer far more than just Business Travel!

Why not treat that special someone to

• A short break in one of the beautiful European cities
• A theatre weekend in London with tickets to see one of the top West End shows.
• Tickets to a sporting event
• A pass for an activity such as karting or motor racing?
• Tickets to a Theme Park.
• An excursion from their next holiday destination?
• A pamper day at one of the country's spa resorts or a champagne flight on the London Eye?

Finally, why not give a Medway Travel "travel voucher" (any value from £25 upwards, with no administration charge) and let them decide for themselves?

The possibilities are endless - and these presents could give the recipient something to continue to look forward to, once the buzz of their special day is over.

When travelling in groups it's extremely important to ensure that there is good planning and professional advice about group travel destinations. We have extensive experience in planning and managing group travel for all sizes of groups to anywhere in the world.

Do you need Vaccinations or an Occupational medical in a hurry?

Fast, quality medical help can often be difficult to obtain. We can help and at a time to suit you.

Other such services include:

• Blood tests 
• Life insurance Medicals
• Private GP consultation,
• Stress Management
• Translation Services

Contact us for further details

Unlike the big majority of travel companies, all Medway Travel consultants have undergone the necessary training to allow them to sell travel insurance under the new regulations.

We now offer a wide range of travel insurance packages to cater for the precise needs of our clients’ travel requirements.

Our annual multi-trip policies are particularly good value, especially when arranged to cover a client's whole group of frequent travellers in one policy. This may be set up to include your staff's partners and dependants as well, if required, for a modest increase in premium.
 
You may choose either to contact us or use our online insurance quotation system.

Having ensured that we fully understand our client’s objectives, on every airline enquiry we will consider - where appropriate to the travel policy of the particular client:

• Conventional airlines (there are over 500 airlines on our systems)
• Creative fares
• Low-cost fares
• Net fares
• Route deals
• Internet suppliers
• Contracted fares (there are more than 60 different airlines, with which we have such fares)
• Inclusive tour packages

.... and then we thoroughly research all the appropriate options, working online (in real-time whenever possible).

We will also consider alternative modes of transport, weighing up all the sensible permutations for the trip, including perhaps rail, hotel, car rental, taxis and ferries, as well as the air fare, to arrive at the most appropriate options that take the convenience and total trip cost into account.

We then respond by the client’s preferred method of communication, whether that be email, telephone, or fax.

We pride ourselves on responding to enquiries within agreed time-scales, and always explain the advantages, limitations and restrictions of the options we recommend, leaving clients to make the final selection.

We will advise on the requirements for each trip and ensure that any visa application is processed quickly and efficiently through our contracted Passport and Visa service. The team is very experienced in the day-to-day operations of the world’s Embassies and High Commissions, and was voted number 1 independent consular service in the Travel Trade Gazette awards 2002.

Something we have discovered in recent years is that many executives either fall in love with a destination they travel to on business and want to retire there, or travel there so frequently and through buying a property and renting it out when not required find they can save on hotel bills.

Medway Travel has established relationships with a number of specialists in this field and will be happy to introduce you to the one most suited to meet your requirements.

When you've got clients to impress and entertain, Medway Travel can help you to book event tickets through our extensive network of contacts.

A bad translation will hurt your business - when Pepsi launched their slogan ‘Come alive with the Pepsi Generation’ in Taiwan it came out as ‘Pepsi will bring your ancestors back from the dead’.

We can organise the very best translation service, carried out by had picked translators with knowledge of the general field for which the material is related.

For the really important negotiations, interpreters whose mother tongue is the foreign language you are involved with, can be sourced. They will familiarise themselves with the jargon of your specialist activity, beforehand and travel with you, to become vital allies in the crucial meetings.

Whether you have in mind a traditional venue for a business event or something very different, Medway Travel has extensive experience in finding our corporate clients the optimum venue  for all types of events, to suit the budget, accessibility requirements and the theme for the occasion.