Business Travel Tracking is the Best

When you charge a travel cost to your business via an expense report whether it's a flight, a hotel booking or anything else - you want to make sure that you're getting value for your money. Luckily, a recent report from Entrepreneur selected the "best in business travel" for 2014 - affording corporate travelers everywhere a helpful guide about the services they'd be wise to employ.

The best travel company for 2014 According to Entrepreneur, more business travelers should be seeing the company name Surf Air on their automated expense reports. The company, which opened last year, offers a subscription-based business model: individuals pay $1,599 per month - or more for other plans - for unlimited flights. Wade Eyerly, founder of Surf Air, told the news outlet that his company aims to provide a new means for air travel to corporate and other travelers, because most airlines are not able to provide extensive levels of consumer satisfaction.

"When you look at satisfaction among consumers, airlines rank dead last," Eyerly told Entrepreneur. "They're literally the only thing you hate more than your cable company." For individuals who often travel on behalf of their business, a subscription-based airline service like Surf Air could be ideal. That goes for the businesses financing these trips, too: one monthly air charge on a regular traveler's expense report via Surf Air may be much, much lower than the costs that individual normally racks up in airline tickets.

The best hotel for 2014 The Entrepreneur article then went on to pick its top location for corporate travelers to stay during the coming year: the Langham Hotel, in Chicago. The location is only the fourth under that brand's umbrella in the U.S., but if offers everything that a business traveler could possibly need - from shoeshines and places to snack to an entire lounge for traveling workers and an on-site source for a multitude of business supplies. "One of Langham's goals is to redefine the club-room concept, which had become a little tired," Rose Genovese, vice president of sales and marketing for North America at Langham, explained to Entrepreneur. "Chicago is a prototype." However, there's another lodging option that corporate travelers may want to consider in the coming years. Fortune Magazine recently reported that the housing rental service Airbnb, which caters to business travelers by giving them low-cost locations where they can both lodge and work, has been growing at an "astronomical rate".

Last but not least, the top destination for 2014 The Entrepreneur report concluded by naming the top reemerging destination for business travelers: Atlanta, Georgia. The business scene - particularly the tech sector - is reported to be thriving in Atlanta. One individual recently even established an "Atlanta Tech Village," which provides furniture, internet, workshops and more to either local or traveling employees for a low cost.

"The city has changed," David Cummings, who both opened the Village and sold the software company Pardot for nearly $100 million, explained to the news outlet. "All of a sudden, there's a broad base of startups in town."

Kasim Reed, mayor of the city, told the news outlet that Atlanta has established itself as a major outlet for business - and has been showing up as a destination on many expense reports - because it has been able to carve out its own singular identity in recent years.