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EWA Contractor Services

 

Why is EWA Travel so unique that a significant portion of the NGO community has selected EWA as their travel management company? We believe the primary factors are our highly talented and experienced management staff and international travel counselors (averaging 23 years’ experience).  Please note our Staff page for their brief bios. We also believe that our mid-size corporate structure, with a flat organizational structure, allows for total team focus to service each of our very valued clients. Our EWA creed sums up our commitment to you: “Service is delivering what we promise and quality is doing it right the first time.”

 

Our headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia and our Eastern Regional Office is located in Herndon, Virginia, our Southwest Regional office is in Tucson, Arizona and our Western Regional Office is in Los Angeles, California. Our website is at ewatravel.com.  EWA Travel, Inc. is a Small Business by SBA standards. EWA Travel has over 25 years’ experience in USAID travel regulations performed by the most experienced international travel consultants in the travel industry. We work with contractors and sub-contractors to make certain that all travel arrangements comply with the Fly America Act, the Federal and Joint Travel Regulations, prime and sub-contractor obligations and other unique accounting requirements and documentation.  

 

We work with you to help assure the well being (security and health) of your international travelers. Our iBank services, described below, allow you to instantly keep in touch with the locations of all your travelers and we always are available to service you from anywhere in the world.

 

We are highly competitive in delivering the full range of international travel services and travel management consulting. Our technology is second to none and our communications systems are 24/7 on a worldwide basis. Our services include itinerary and pricing proposals, trip authorization, assignment of cost centers, government per diem allotment, travel policy enforcement, full visa and other documentation services by in-house personnel, 24/7 reservations,  emergency support throughout the world and online reservations (powered by Sabre) and we work closely with personal security and risk management systems. Our web site is updated regularly to keep you abreast of important international travel news of interest to the NGO community.

EWA works with all our contractor clients to assist them as required in proposal development to help them keep present contracts and to win addition contracts. Our reporting and accounting services are designed to make it easy for you to check online (iBank) or offline (Trams) your travelers’ status, compliance with policies and other reports that you may require. We are real cost “sticklers” and work very hard to save your organization as much money as possible. 

 

Association Travel Services    

 

EWA Travel understands that most Associations have special travel requirements that include more than employee travel but also travel for its members, board of directors, speakers and other guest travel. We have the essential experience and personnel to address and leverage all of these various types of travel to ensure cost and time savings as well as quality control and management. Since 1976, EWA Travel has worked with hundreds of associations to provide outstanding travel services.

 

 

 

iBank

EWA Travel is a licensee of iBank, the industry's premiere Travel Management Reporting Tool. iBank, a web enabled application from Cornerstone Information Systems, is a dynamic, secure, password-protected online reporting system. Once registered, users can view, print and share reports of travel purchases. iBank has both detailed and summary reports focusing on air, hotel, car, and professional consulting fee transactions. And best of all, it's free. EWA Travel's corporate client accounts enjoy unlimited use of iBank at no charge. For usability, convenience, and flexibility, no other online reporting tool comes close. With iBank, you have instant access to your company’s vital travel information and data available on 24/7 basis. iBank is an Internet based system which gives you direct online access. You will receive a unique User ID and Password to protect your data for your use only. iBank uses our Sabre Reservation System to gather bookings and then sends this information via the internet to the secure iBank server. Once the data is received by the iBank server, the information is loaded and immediately available for up to the minute reporting from around the world twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. iBank provides reporting and services to actively track and view spend by vendor to manage current preferred air, car, or hotel travel to assist in reducing and controlling costs. In policy / risk management, the contractor is able to produce reports that indicate what exceptions to travel policies were made and if risks played a part in the reason for the exceptions (with people concerns being the primary motive). Travel Management issues and iBank solutions:

 

We spend a significant amount of time and money producing travel spend reports and they are often outdated by the time we are ready to use them

iBank enables you, via the web, to run 120 standard and unlimited custom reports that provide you with an up-to-the-minute, overall picture of your global travel spend.

When I sit down with my preferred vendors I am forced to rely on their historical information to negotiate my pricing

iBank enables you to actively track your real-time spend by vendor so that you can better manage and negotiate preferred contracts.

If management came to me and demanded to know where all of our travelers are right now I couldn't tell them

At a moment’s notice iBank provides you the ability to report on the location of all of your travelers worldwide

Our travel data resides with numerous vendors and when we want to see a consolidated view we can’t

iBank consolidates data from multiple sources and provides you with a single, comprehensive view of your global travel information

Our CFO keeps asking why we are spending so much money on travel in spite of our travel policy and I don’t have the data I need to answer him

 

iBank provides you with access to the information necessary to actively monitor and report on travel policy compliance

 

In addition to the online iBank reporting and travel management system, EWA makes available to its clients a wide variety of customized reports prepared by EWA using the TRAMS Report System. Virtually any type of travel report using TRAMS can be accomplished by our helpful back office personnel.  These reports normally are issued monthly (within one week after the end of the month) but can be issued for any period you wish, and can be customized to the format and type of most beneficial to your organization. The reports are up-to-the-minute and accurate.

 

Online Bookings

 

GetThere, a Sabre Travel Network brand is an EWA Travel service available to all EWA corporate clients. GetThere is the leading Web-based corporate travel booking tool (CBT) used by global corporations, government agencies and NGO's to provide a convenient way for employees to book travel while significantly reducing travel costs. The GetThere CBT is used by businesses that prefer sophisticated travel technology combined with the hands-on support from a travel management such as EWA. More than 1,000 corporations, including half the Fortune 200, use GetThere technology. The best online travel reservation and management system requires proven technology and unmatched service. GetThere gives you both.  You’ll find a consistent recognition of GetThere ongoing innovation in travel management solutions backed by a dedicated staff of travel and technology experts. The result is a proven online travel management solution that delivers high adoption rates and significant savings on travel.

 

Humanitarian, Religious and Missionary Airfares Available to Qualified EWA Clients

 

EWA Travel offers special humanitarian-religious-missionary airfares (HRM airfares). These special airfares are restricted to our clients whom belong to or travel on behalf of 501c3 qualified religious, humanitarian or missionary organizations.  The special fares are offered through EWA Travel by more than two dozen global air carriers with some airlines offering both economy and business class service.  Once your organization and travelers qualify for the HRM airfares, EWA will provide an option during the flight reservation process where the HRM airfare is presented along with the standard commercial airfare. HRM airfares can save your organization up to 30% off round-trip itineraries and up to 65% off one way routings. The fares are global and not limited to U.S. point of sale.  In some instances, the standard commercial fares will be less costly and in other cases the HRM fares (and/or conditions ) will be better. Letterhead from the sending organization is required stating that travel is for mission/humanitarian purposes.

   

 To learn about EWA's corporate services, please contact Audrey Anderson, VP Corporate Services. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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