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Stay Healthy on the Road with Simple Tips 

Business travel can sometimes declare war on your body, let alone your antibodies. Your probability of catching the sniffles increases 20 percent for frequent flyers after sitting for hours next to a sneezing, coughing, germ-ridden passenger.

For those sick and tired of feeling sick and tired after a business trip, Concur is offering up some helpful tips for maintaining good health on the road.

• Choose your seat wisely – When reserving your seat, try to sit in the most stable part of the plane – along the wings. The movement in this area is less dramatic than the rest of the plane, which should help with motion sickness (and turbulence).
• Clean hands, healthy heart – Using hand sanitizer or washing frequently with soap and water can greatly reduce your susceptibility to colds and flus. Airlines are not routinely required to clean lavatories, seats trays, overhead compartments, or other areas frequently “touched,” so experts say watch where you put your hands. It’s often a cesspool of germs.
• It’s in the bag – Whether it’s germs on your suitcase handle or even (eek!) bedbugs, cleaning out your carry-on is worth a shot. If you’ve got some itchy hitchhikers on the inside, wash all its contents in a hot cycle, and spray the bag with 91 percent isopropyl alcohol to kill the critters.

Click here to read more about Concur’s tips for staying healthy up in the air.

Upcoming Webinar: Understanding Your Business Travelers 

How well do you understand the motivations and needs of your business travelers? Powered by research conducted by the GBTA Foundation and Concur, this Webinar will orient travel managers to five types of business travelers, their pain points when traveling, and the types of products and services they use (or would like to use) to support their business travel. 

Join the BTN Group and Concur as our experts discuss “Understanding Your Business Travelers” during our Webinar on Tuesday, March 13 at 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET.

Find out how well you are serving your travelers—and whether there are easy steps you could take to create a more comprehensive travel program, gain compliance and raise traveler satisfaction levels. 

Click here to register!

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User can add travel or authorization request after report creation: A user can now add additional travel requests or authorization requests to the expense report after expenses are assigned to the report.

PO Matching (Non-Inventory / 2-Way Match): (Early Adopter Program) This feature helps companies authorize spend before it occurs, while retaining visibility and control. Companies can more easily put spend on purchase orders, catch exceptions, and route to owners for resolution, within a central automated system.

Exclude Rules with Lowest Logical Fare (SID6794): With this release, flights that break the rule Exclude From LLF will not appear in the travel rule violation popup. Those flights are not rule-compliant and should not be presented as an alternative to the user.

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