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Effortless Meeting Travel Booking

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Smart Policy Controls, Customized by You

Gone are the dark days of manual auditing for each and every meeting booked. Gather was built to intelligently apply your company's personal policies to every single booking. You'll even have the option to change policy at the individual meeting level. That means self-booking for your attendees that you can trust. They'll thank you for it, too!

Self-Booking, In-Policy, Always.

Real-Time Data Visibility for All

Close your eyes; imagine seeing all of your key data points in a convenient, user-friendly, comprehensive tracking tool. Now open them to the bright new reality of AmTrav Gather. Glancing through one single tab will let you see where your people are, where they'll be, and the cost of it all. This is in real-time and accurate.

See everything: itineraries, spend & savings.

Ready-to-Help Service

At AmTrav, we're all about choices. So, you'll never be herded into a single phone line system and placed on hold for hours when you need help now. We let our competitors handle that. We give you and your travelers the option to contact our friendly, ready-to-help staff via phone, our proprietary chat tool, Slack, Microsoft Teams, or email. We even have self-service options. Your travelers always have a way to reach our experts, so they won't be calling you, but you'll know they're taken care of.

Multiple options to get in contact, ready-to-help staff.

Frequently asked questions

Is the tool self-booking only? Or can we book through advisors?
How do we make sure policy is followed?

Company policy can be set directly in the system so that all itineraries outside of that policy will be flagged and the booker will be alerted in real-time.

The itinerary can still be booked, however, the booker will be required to fill out a reason code and provide more information. You will be able to decide if you want to approve it, or not.

We also implement "lowest logical." For those unfamiliar. This strategy assures that your company is getting the lowest possible fares where it makes sense.

For example, if we have two flights, each from a different carrier, and they both leave at about the same time and have all the same options, the system will insist the cheapest flight be selected. If the cheapest of the two is not selected, the booker will be asked to fill out a reason code and you can decide if you wish to approve it or not.
How do we know we're getting the control we need?
What is the pricing like? Is it complicated?
Do we have to switch to AmTrav to use Gather?

I was a little nervous to change to Gather from our Advisor-assisted process that had been working well before (because I am so set in my ways) – but I was very pleasantly surprised.

Leigh Sullivan

AE Ventures

Gather gives us the control and customization that we need in order to remain compliant for our customers. And our travelers love that Gather gives them the autonomy to pick their own flights. Gather removed so much of the back-and-forth communication, and cut down on booking and approval time.

Ali Geisler

Etak

The Gather Story

The state of meeting planning had been dismal at best for quite some time, and Jeff Klee, our CEO and co-founder set out to change that. Which, was no easy task in itself, because it wasn't readily apparent to most that there was any particularly innovative way to solve this issue.

See, often, TMCs would require customers to use the same booking tools and processes for meetings, job interview travel, and company training as they did for larger corporate events. This didn't make a ton of sense for customers, because they were forced to use the same, outdated, bloated systems for larger-scale travel as they were for small, sometimes single-day travel. To make matters worse, it was difficult to utilize these tools with individuals outside of the organization.

And TMCs, of course, didn't want to change anything because that would mean taking on additional costs, rolling out company training, and reducing overall profitability.

What bookers and travelers were left with was a system that wasn't designed with their needs in mind.

Jeff and the rest of us in the AmTrav team knew that had to change. As a company with a customer-first, innovation-close-second mindset, we began developing a product that could provide a simpler way to gather folks together. Whether they were in-house team members, consultants, job candidates, vendors, or any other designation, we wanted to effortlessly help people gather, and that's how the name was born.

As for design, we knew it had to be sleek and tech-forward but also maintain the personal AmTrav touch. We wanted to eliminate pain points for this type of travel:

Low visibility into data
Limited control of spending, itinerary, or safety features
Lack of service when things go wrong
Almost no choice for the traveler on where to book

So, we did. Gather was built from the ground-up by our in-house team of developers to specifically address pains in the meeting booking travel segment.

From a single dashboard, bookers and travelers can see into itineraries, spending, and safety features, as well as utilize tools like unused tickets savings to control spend.

Managers and bookers can set policy controls both across the board and at the individual meeting level, allowing for the most flexibility of any control program out there.

Collaborating outside of your company has never been easier, as with a simple email invite, you can bring in outside travelers into one planned event, maintaining all benefits and features you enjoy with your staff.

And finally, we addressed the lackluster service component that plagues not only just meeting travel, but all events travel. At any time, you can access an expert from AmTrav that's ready-to-help your travelers arrive safely. Best of all, they can choose what method they'd like to contact us: phone, chat, Slack, Microsoft Teams, or email, whatever suits them.

Gather was created for one purpose: to help bring people together.