bringing people back together for business
who we are
Butler Caroye is the region’s leading travel procurement consultancy. We have been operating since 1998. Over this time we have worked with over 100 major companies, government departments and universities, saving them money, reducing risk and locking in good supply in over 140 projects, with a total travel spend of over $3 billion.
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what we do for you
The business travel supply chain is opaque, complicated, conflicted and ever changing. Using our efficient procurement tools, we analyse, assess, negotiate, consult and advise to ensure that you get best deals and fair and open arrangements. Please see our clients page. Butler Caroye has been the first choice of the public and private sectors because we deliver substantial savings, reduce risk and lock in reliable high-quality travel services.
Now, the stakes are higher. When you return to the skies to meet, to compete and to do business, you will be faced with new complexities.
covid / post-covid oriented
All our services now totally factor in the five new complexities …
the “telling listening balance”
As subject matter experts, it’s easy to get this wrong. Over the years we have learned that true consultation, continually asking and listening to the client, is even more important to successful outcomes than knowledge and good process. It’s the main thing that experience gives you in this line of work.
Our flagship service for 22 years, for business travel procurement, including tenders, reviews, analysis, benchmarking, travel policy and process work, IT and data advice, and any tailored service you might need in this area. Butler Caroye won btTB-PASA Consultancy of the Year for all three years of the award.
For a complete outsourced travel management solution. Three levels of service are offered, from “caretaker” to “complete-care”. You receive exactly the right amounts of independent service and expertise at the right times. The packaging of the services reduces their cost to you. Yet they are flexible and fit with your particular situation and individual category managerment needs.
For meetings and event procurement and management services. All the same issues apply as for corporate travel. Even in 2019, this was an area of supply crying out for transparency and rationalisation. We now have the opportunity to reset with open arrangements delivering better value.
For audits of fares, rates and fees. Hidden mark-ups and over-quoting are the biggest historic causes of high, unchecked travel costs. We compare bookings data with source-of-truth settlement data to ensure fair and accurate travel pricing.
With practicality and budgets in mind, we enable you to implement solid best-practice, with improvements on both sides of the sustainability ledger. We advise and assist with internal policy and process, and with environmental procurement and mananagement of travel suppliers.
in procurement, independence is everything
We are not a travel agent. We are not a Travel Management Company driven by sales commissions from airlines and hotels. Any income or favour received from any supplier changes everything. We are independent procurement consultants working for travel buyers with only their interests in mind.
A shift in control of the supply chain from suppliers (TMCs) to travel buyers
A shift in travel management practices towards sustainability
The opening up of the meetings and events supply chain to transparency and value
An end to the practices of hidden mark-ups and commission chasing in the booking process
