Carlson Wagonlit Travel's mobile offering, a collaboration with Rearden Commerce, integrates online and GDS bookings and is now available for iOS, Android and Blackberry devices.
CWT To Go is for clients of the global travel management company and it imports all CWT bookings for business travelers in a secure manner, the company says.
If road warriors, equipped with their smartphones, need to change a booking or add a hotel, they can always contact their CWT agent using the app's click-to-call functionality.
For travel managers, the use of the app by their employees should increase compliance, as well.
The app features travel alerts from FlightStats, weather updates from Intellicast, restaurant reservations from OpenTable, and notifications about whether online check-in or paperless boarding is available, CWT says.
"The potential to be gained by integrating mobile devices to a managed travel program is vast -- not just in terms of additional services to the traveler but also in ensuring the traveler's safety and security," says Pauline Quéré, CWT's vice president of customer marketing.
Travel management companies were a bit slow to board the mobile bandwagon, as security concerns were a key inhibitor.
But, now they have built that into their mobile offerings, which are becoming must-haves for road warriors.