Property & Campus Services announced today the appointment of a new panel of preferred travel agents as part ongoing review of travel management within the University of Melbourne.
The new panel of preferred travel agents including Campus Travel, Navigator Travel and QBT were appointed by a nine member panel following an extensive review of the market which commenced early June.
The University has also appointed for the first time two preferred events and group management companies Australian Business & Conference Travel (ABC Travel) and CiEvents.
A number of new and improved services have been negotiated with the new preferred suppliers as well as significantly improved pricing structure which will increase the transparency of the cost of airfares and travel related services booked through the travel agents.
Further details of the new agreements will be released in conjunction with the implementation of travel portal which is on target for release in December this year.
University of Melbourne Travel Category Manager David Papov said that the appointment of a panel of travel agents reflects the requirement to provide an extended range of travel services to the University.
“We have selected agents that will provide a complete range of services including smaller boutique type agents as well as the larger travel agents one of which will have a location on the Parkville campus. The agents will also integrate within the Portal environment and provide a full service centralised travel system for the University” he said.
The current travel agent agreements will remain in place until 30 November when the new Agreements will take effect.
For further information on the new travel agency appointments contact Simon Crunden at travel-enquiries at unimelb.edu.au.