My first travel job over 20 years ago was with Flight Centre making travel bookings for Melbournians looking to escape a harsh winter. It didn’t take long to work out booking travel wasn’t my forte and I moved into a sales role selling corporate travel solutions. A couple of years after that, I joined HRG where I ended up managing a team of account managers who were responsible for making sure our services were meeting the needs of our customers. After spending far too much time away from a young family, I decided to throw away the corporate life to consult. This allowed me to work with organisations to help them develop better corporate travel programs. For the next twelve years, I worked for 14 universities within Australia, the Whole of the Australian Government, NSW Government and a number of large corporate enterprises within the banking, logistics, telecommunications, mining and energy sectors.It was during this time, I developed Travel Analytics; a travel data aggregator. The concept gained momentum, and before I knew it, I went from hacking up Excel online spreadsheets to a team of developers working on a fully blown web platform that served up fully interactive dashboards for over 2,500 organisations throughout Australia and New Zealand.Despite being railroaded by Travel Analytics for several years, my passion for developing better travel platforms never waned. Most corporate travel programs are bolted together; approval workflows, booking platforms, payment processes, expense management, and reporting solutions are all part of an organisation's travel solution. This creates silos, issues with transparency, bad data outcomes, and in most cases, terrible user engagement. Very few organisations manage to get it right, and those that do, need to allocate significant resources to make it all work.Nutrip is our latest venture and it's designed to solve the problems organisations have with their travel programs. More and more travel is being managed outside traditional travel booking platforms. We cannot ignore this trend as it's just as important to track a researchers three-day road trip into regional Australia as it is the CEO's trip to a capital city anywhere in the world.Travel has changed and it will continue to do so. Nutrip is a great way for organisations to better to manage travel now and we are improving it all the time. If you are looking for a new outlook for your organisation’s travel then get in touch and we will show you a way forward. Regards,Simon CrundenFounderNutrip and Travel Analytics