A managed travel desk for teams of 2 to 20

Nobody owns travel at your company.Now somebody does.

Your team books the trips they were going to book anyway. We check several rates on every one. The stay comes loaded – breakfast, an upgrade, a credit. Your travelers keep every point. And every month, a report on where the money went.

Same day

Options back in hours, booked the moment you approve.

4–6 hrs

Per week off your team’s plate – the booking, the changes, the 11pm cancellations.

$150–250

Back per trip in perks, credits and rate savings, on trips you were taking anyway.

The situation

Right now travel is one of these three, and none of them are bad decisions. They are just what happens when it is nobody’s actual job.

Your EA books it

They are good at their job, and this is not it. No supplier relationships, no rate leverage, no visibility into whether a $340 room was a good deal. It quietly consumes four to six hours a week that should be going somewhere else.

Everyone books their own

Whatever looked cheapest on a booking site, expensed after the fact, reconciled never. Your team gets the worst room on the lowest floor and you find out what it cost forty days later.

You book it

Which is the most expensive hour in the building, spent comparing flight times.

A travel desk fixes this the way an outsourced bookkeeper fixes the books. Someone whose actual job it is, with the relationships to do it properly, at a price you will stop noticing by month two.


What you are actually buying

First we win the rate. Then we load the stay.

Companies your size book retail and get retail. The desk checks several rates for the same room – member rates, agency rates, the public price – books whichever wins, and rebooks if the price drops before check-in. And because it books through preferred partner programs, the stay comes loaded, with your traveler’s loyalty number still on the reservation.

Daily breakfast creditUp to $50 per person per day · 3-night trip
up to $150
Property or dining creditVaries by partner
$25–100
Rate savings and drop rebookingWhen the rate check or a price drop wins
$0–100
Room upgrade when availablePriority at the property
unpriced
Extended check-in and checkoutThe 4pm flight problem, solved
unpriced
Back per trip
$150–250

Run that across a year.

Sixty trips a year at the low end of that range is roughly $9,000 of value your team was leaving on the table, on trips you were already paying for.

Which means the desk more than pays for itself before we get to the part where your EA stops spending Thursday afternoon on Kayak.

Perk values are typical ranges across preferred partner properties and vary by hotel and rate. We will confirm exactly what comes with the room at the properties your team uses before you sign anything.

Run it at your size – travelers, trips, and the whole bill – on the pricing page →


How it works

Three steps, and none of them are yours.

01

Someone needs to go somewhere

They send an email, or drop it in Slack or Teams. Where, when, and anything that matters. That is the entire ask on your side.

02

Options same day, booked on approval

Two or three options with a clear recommendation, checked across several rates and matched to your policy. Approve, and it is booked on your card. Confirmation lands in their inbox and yours.

03

You get a report on the first

Where the money went, by traveler and category, against last month, with the value we recovered laid out line by line.


Run on the Fora platform · $1M+ booked for private clients · founded by an early Fora employee · Meet the desk →

One email, and you will know.

Forward us the confirmation from your team’s last hotel booking. Within one business day we will reply with what the same stay would have been through the desk – the rate we would have found and what would have come with the room. If we would not have beaten it, we will say so.

No meeting, no homework – forward it to

How it works

You send a sentence.
We send a confirmation.

The desk lives wherever your team already works. Plain email, Slack, or Teams. We set it up the way you want it and you never think about it again.

#travel-desk 6 members
MR
Maya Rodriguez
Need to get to the Chicago show next month. Can someone sort flights?
MR
Maya Rodriguez
Submitted a trip request.
Trip request · Maya Rodriguez
DestinationChicago, IL DepartSep 14 ReturnSep 17 NotesNear McCormick Place. Aisle seat.
TD
Travel Desk
Got it, Maya. Options to you before end of day.
TD
Travel Desk
Options are in your inbox – three flights, two hotels. Our pick: the 7:40 AM United nonstop and the hotel on Prairie Ave. Best reviews of the three, four-minute walk to McCormick, breakfast included. Say the word and it is booked.
MR
Maya Rodriguez
Go with your pick 🙌
TD
Travel Desk
Booked and confirmed. Details are in your inbox.
Confirmed · Chicago, Sep 14–17
FlightUA 1732, 7:40 AM · aisle, 12C Hotel3 nights, 0.4 mi from McCormick IncludedBreakfast daily, $50 property credit, late checkout Rate$284/night, matched to your policy
Message #travel-desk /trip
A trip request, start to finish. Nobody left Slack.
Travel DeskTeams channel
DK
David Kim
Trip request submitted through the Travel Desk tab.
Trip request · David Kim
DestinationDallas, TX DepartOct 2 ReturnOct 4 NotesClient dinner Thursday, needs to land by 2pm.
TD
Travel Desk
On it. You will have it before you log off.
Same flow, same desk. We install the tab and the form during onboarding.
Sarah Chen <sarah@company.com> 8:52 AM
Denver, week of the 20th
Hi – need to be in Denver the week of the 20th. Out Monday morning, ideally before 9. Back Wednesday evening. Hotel downtown, walkable to the office on 17th. Thanks!
Remuda <desk@…> 9:38 AM
Re: Denver, week of the 20th
Three options inside, Sarah. Our recommendation is option 2 – the 7:05 nonstop out Monday and the hotel two blocks off 17th. Best reviews of the three, breakfast and a $50 credit included at the same nightly rate. Reply “book 2” and it is done.
Remuda <desk@…> 9:51 AM
Confirmed · Denver, Mon–Wed
Booked and confirmed – itinerary attached. Out 7:05 AM Monday, back 6:40 PM Wednesday, two nights downtown at $212/night with breakfast, a $50 credit and late checkout on the reservation.

No form, no login, no new tool to learn. If your team would rather just write an email, that works exactly as well. We pull it into the same queue.

The lowest-friction version, and the one most teams start with.

The full cycle

What happens after you hit submit.

01 · Request

However your team likes it

An email address, a Slack workflow, or a Teams tab. We set it up around how your people already behave, not the other way around. Most teams start with email and graduate to the workflow once volume picks up.

02 · Booking

Options same day, booked on approval

We check it against your travel policy, the traveler’s profile, and what is actually good in that city. You get two or three options, not forty. Approve, and it is booked on your card through partner rates.

03 · The trip

Changes and disruptions handled

Flight cancelled, meeting moved, they need one more night. It goes to the desk, not to your EA. Every ticket comes with a 24/7 disruption line that can reroute or reissue it at any hour, in the air or on the ground.

04 · The report

First of the month, without asking

Total spend, broken out by traveler and category, compared against the prior month, with the perk value we recovered itemized. It takes four minutes to read and it is the only travel meeting you will ever need.


Getting started

Week one is about an hour of your time.

Day 1 · Kickoff call

Forty-five minutes. Who travels, how often, what the unwritten rules are, and what has annoyed you about travel in the past year.

Day 2 · Traveler profiles

A short form per traveler. Seat preference, loyalty numbers, dietary needs, the hotel chains they refuse to stay at. We only ask once.

Day 3 · Cards and policy

Your corporate cards go on file, securely, on the booking platform – as many or as few as you like, mapped to travelers or teams. If you have a written travel policy we load it. If you do not, we will draft you a one-pager.

Day 4 · Channel live

The email address, Slack workflow, or Teams tab goes live, plus a three-line announcement your team can actually read.

Day 5 · First booking

Whatever is next on the calendar. Most teams are fully switched over inside two weeks.

See it run on a real trip.

Forward the confirmation from your last hotel booking and we will reply with what the desk would have done with the same trip – same city, same dates, our rate and what comes with the room. One business day, no meeting, no deck.

Or start with a question – email and a person answers.

What’s included

A better rate, a loaded stay,
and a straight answer
on where the money went.

What comes with the room

Every partner booking, loaded by default.

This is not a discount program. Preferred partner programs are agreements between hotels and the agency network, and the amenities apply automatically when the booking comes through us – on top of, not instead of, the loyalty points your traveler already earns.

Your traveler does not have to ask for anything at the desk. It is already on the reservation.

Breakfast dailyUp to $50 per person per day, at most partner properties
included
Priority room upgradeAt check-in, subject to availability
included
Property or dining credit$25–100 depending on the hotel
included
Extended check-in and checkoutWhenever the property can
included
Welcome amenityPlus a flag on the reservation as a VIP arrival
included
Airline and hotel loyaltyYour traveler’s numbers ride on every ticket and every reservation – points and status post as if they booked direct
still yours
Additional cost to you
$0
The shelf we book from

8,200+ properties through Virtuoso, Preferred Hotels & Resorts Platinum, Accor, Tablet and the major chains’ partner programs – which covers the business hotels your team actually stays in, not just resorts.

And when it is not on the shelf

If a public rate – an Expedia bundle, an advance-purchase deal – is genuinely the better value, we book that instead and say so in the confirmation. The desk’s job is the best value, not the rate that pays us.

Specific amenities vary by property and rate. We confirm exactly what comes with the room before every booking.


The monthly report

The first real visibility you have had into travel spend.

It arrives on the first, without you asking. Here is what it looks like.

Travel summary · August
Prepared for the leadership team · 9 travelers · 14 trips
$41,280
TOTAL SPEND
$2,949
AVG PER TRIP
$2,140
VALUE RECOVERED
−6.2%
VS JULY
TravelerTripsDestinationsSpendRecovered
Maya Rodriguez4Chicago, Atlanta, Chicago, Boston$12,410+$680
David Kim3Dallas, Denver, Dallas$8,905+$495
Sarah Chen3London, Amsterdam$11,240+$410
Marcus Webb2Los Angeles, Seattle$5,180+$305
Four others2Austin, Miami$3,545+$250

Illustrative sample. Your report is built from your actual bookings.


Also included

Traveler profiles

Seat preferences, loyalty numbers, dietary needs, and the chains they will not stay at. Collected once, applied forever. Nobody gets asked their frequent flyer number again.

A travel policy, if you want one

Nightly caps by city, cabin rules, advance-booking windows. We will draft the one-pager and then quietly enforce it at booking so you never have to be the person who says no.

A single point of contact

One person who knows your team, your policy, and the fact that your CFO will not fly connections. Not a ticket queue and not a different agent every time.

Being straight with you

What this is not.

Not expense software

We do not replace Ramp, Brex or Expensify. We book the travel and hand you clean data. Keep whatever you use for cards and reimbursement.

Not a 24/7 concierge – except for flights

Flights are covered around the clock: every ticket comes with a 24/7 line that can reroute or reissue it during a disruption. Hotel and itinerary changes run business hours. If you need 3am coverage for every category, you need a full corporate travel agency (a TMC), and we will tell you that on the call.

Not event production

Offsites and retreats are quoted separately. The monthly desk covers day-to-day flights and hotels, which is most of what your company actually books.

Not a TMC

Past about thirty travelers you need negotiated rates and enterprise tooling, and we will point you to one. Below that – whether your team is two people or twenty – the desk is usually the better deal, and we will show you the math either way.

See it on your own booking.

Forward your last hotel confirmation and we will show you, line by line, what that stay would have come with through the desk – and what it would have cost. No obligation. If we would not have beaten it, we will say so.

Or start with a question – email and a person answers.

Pricing

Flat monthly.
Nothing buried.

You pay for the desk, not per transaction. The one per-booking fee in the whole model is a flat $50 ticketing fee on flights – it covers issuing, changes and 24/7 disruption support, and you will see it here before you ever see it on an invoice.

Desk

Small team, steady travel.
$150/ month
$250 founding rate, locked 12 months
  • Up to 3 named travelers
  • Unlimited trips – no per-trip charge
  • Requests by email or Slack
  • Breakfast, upgrades and credits on every booking
  • Monthly spend report
Start here
Most common

Standard

A real travel habit across the leadership and sales teams.
$400/ month
$600 founding rate, locked 12 months
  • Up to 10 named travelers
  • Unlimited trips – no per-trip charge
  • Requests by email, Slack or Teams
  • Breakfast, upgrades and credits on every booking
  • Monthly spend report
  • Travel policy drafted and enforced
  • Quarterly review call
Try it on one trip

Heavy

Travel is a core part of how you sell or operate.
$850/ month
$1,200 founding rate, locked 12 months
  • Up to 20 named travelers
  • Unlimited trips – no per-trip charge
  • Requests however your team likes – email, Slack or Teams
  • Breakfast, upgrades and credits on every booking
  • Monthly spend report
  • Travel policy drafted and enforced
  • Monthly review call
  • Offsite and retreat planning at cost
Try it on one trip

Founding rates are available to the first five companies and hold for twelve months from signing. After that you move to standard pricing, and we will tell you before it happens rather than after.

What you actually pay

Your bill, before you ever see one.

Two sliders and the whole cost of the desk at your size – retainer, flight fees, everything – next to what it gets back. Your plan is picked by named travelers; trips are unlimited.

10
60
Your planPicked by named travelers – trips do not change it
Monthly retainerFounding rate, locked 12 months. The invoice is this number, every month
Desk cost per year
Flight ticketing fees$50 per ticket at your volume, passed through at cost
Total annual costEvery dollar the desk will ever cost you at this size
Back per yearAt $150–250 per trip – perks, credits and rate savings on trips you were taking anyway
Cash net, at the bottom of the range
Not in that net: your team’s hoursThe booking, the changes, the rebooking – off your EA’s plate, worth $8,000–12,000 a year in payroll
4–6 hrs / wk
Not in that net: the deal-huntingSeveral rates checked on every booking – including ones you will never see on the public sites – then watched for price drops until check-in and rebooked when one hits
always on

The fine print, in plain language

Travelers outside the plan

$75 per trip. Someone who travels twice a year does not need a seat on the desk, so do not pay for one.

Trips

Unlimited within your plan – there is no per-trip charge from us. If your volume runs well past what a team your size normally books – think six-plus trips per traveler in a quarter – we will suggest the right tier before anything changes on the invoice.

Flights

Booked at fare, plus a flat $50 ticketing fee per ticket. That covers issuing, changes and the 24/7 disruption line behind every ticket. The fare itself is never marked up.

Hotels

You pay the property directly at the partner rate. We are compensated by the hotel, which is standard across the industry and is why the perks cost you nothing.

Setup

Free. Onboarding, traveler profiles, policy drafting and channel setup are all included in month one.

Commitment

Month to month after a 90-day initial term. Cancel with 30 days’ notice and we will hand over every profile and record on the way out.

What is never charged

No percentage of spend, no markup on fares or rooms, no change fees on top of the airline’s, no annual platform fee, no hotel booking fees.

Questions about fees, cards, or what happens at 11pm? The FAQ has straight answers.

Five founding spots.

Rates locked for twelve months, and our full attention while the book is still small. Start with a test: forward your last hotel confirmation and we will show you what the desk would have done with it, within one business day.

Or start with a question – email and a person answers.

About

The people behind the desk.

Remuda exists because companies with two to twenty travelers are too small for a full corporate travel agency (a TMC) and too busy to keep booking retail. So we own travel for them.

Jack Abramowich

The founder

Jack Abramowich

Jack was an early employee at Fora, the modern travel agency, where he helped build the systems this desk now runs on. As an advisor he has booked over $1 million in travel for private clients – founders, operators and their families – before opening the desk to companies.

The corporate desk came out of a simple observation: his leisure clients ran companies, and those companies were booking travel worse than their owners did. Same hotels, worse rates, no perks, no report.

The desk is based in New York and run on the Fora platform, with 8,200+ hotel and travel partners behind it and a 24/7 air desk on every ticket.

– Jack

How we operate

Best value, even when it pays us less

Hotels compensate the desk on partner bookings. When a public rate is genuinely the better deal, we book it anyway and say so. A desk you cannot trust on rates is not worth having.

Honest about fit

If your travel is too light for the math to work, we will tell you on the first call rather than sign you. The founding book is five companies, and we would rather fill it slowly with the right ones.

Small on purpose

One point of contact who knows your team, your policy, and which of your people will not fly connections. That only works at a size where we know every traveler by name.

Put a name to the desk.

Forward your last hotel confirmation and the reply comes from Jack – what the same stay would have been through the desk, within one business day. No deck, no pitch, just the comparison.

FAQ

Straight answers.

Is this actually cheaper than what we do now?

On the rate, it is the same or better. Every booking is checked across several rates alongside the public price, and we book whichever wins – then monitor it for drops until check-in. The rest of the gain is in what comes with the room and in the hours your team gets back. If your travel is light enough that the math does not work, we would rather tell you on the first call than sign you.

Do our travelers keep their airline and hotel points?

Yes, all of them. Every reservation carries the traveler’s loyalty number, so points and status nights post exactly as if they booked direct. Partner perks stack on top of status benefits rather than replacing them.

Do we have to change how we pay for travel?

No. Your corporate cards stay your corporate cards. Put as many or as few on file as you like, stored securely on the booking platform and mapped to travelers or teams. Charges post from the airline and the hotel exactly as they do today, so your existing expense and accounting flow is untouched.

What does the $50 flight fee actually cover?

Ticketing, changes and the 24/7 disruption line behind every ticket we issue. It is flat, per ticket, never a percentage – and hotels carry no booking fee at all.

What happens to our EA?

They get four to six hours a week back and stop being the person blamed when a flight gets cancelled. In practice the EA becomes the desk’s main point of contact rather than its operator, which is a considerably better version of the job.

What if a flight goes wrong at 11pm?

Air disruptions route to a 24/7 desk that can reroute, rebook or reissue any ticket we have issued, at any hour. Hotel and itinerary changes are handled during business hours. We would rather be honest about the window than promise 24/7 on everything and miss it.

Can you handle international and premium cabins?

Yes, and that is where the value gets largest. Long-haul premium bookings carry the best partner amenities and the most room for getting the routing right.

Who is actually doing the booking?

A dedicated advisor who knows your team, supported by a trained desk as volume grows. Every booking runs through the same account, the same profiles and the same policy – never a different agent each time.

Why are you cheaper than a full corporate travel agency (a TMC)?

Because a TMC is built to serve a thousand-person company and prices for that. Their per-transaction fees, implementation and platform costs make no sense at your size, which is exactly why nobody has sold you anything good yet.

Still have one?

Ask it by email – a person answers, not a queue. Or skip straight to proof: forward your last hotel confirmation and see what the desk would have done with it, within one business day.

Or start with a question – email and a person answers.