CTI embarks on partnership with Leeds female traveller safety experts

The Leeds-based female traveller safety experts, maiden-voyage.com, has joined forces with CTI Corporate Travel.

As part of the new agreement, CTI can now offer female friendly hotels to their corporate clients.

The hotels, located worldwide, are personally inspected to meet the strictest of security standards. The criteria includes 24/7 staffed reception, double-locking hotel doors and being located in a safe area.

In addition, CTI will also be able to provide their clients with female business traveller safety awareness training, advice on gender specific travel policies and offer access to the maiden-voyage.com secure network for female business travellers.

Clive Wratten, commercial director for CTI, said: “Ensuring the safety of all of our travellers is one of our top priorities. However, lone female business travellers can face a particular set of risks that many companies fail to acknowledge.

“Our partnership with maiden-voyage.com now means that we are the first travel company to have access to an independently verified collection of hotels that have been inspected for both safety and comfort.”

Carolyn Pearson, founder of Maiden Voyage added: “This is not about discrimination or being patronised, this is about providing pragmatic support to a section of your workforce in a sensitive way. 51% of our survey respondents told us that they had felt vulnerable in the hotels provided by their employers.

“Many of those women felt that it would be ‘career limiting’ to voice their concerns and so said nothing. If employees don’t get a good nights sleep whilst on business travel they are not going to perform at their best the next day.

We are delighted that CTI have had the foresight to work with us on creating a better experience for the female business traveller.

“We are already seeing an increase in corporate managers requesting services for lone female travellers and this trend is set to increase.”

CTI, which is one of the UK’s largest independent corporate travel management companies, has an annual turnover in excess of £100m and employs 175 staff in 6 locations. CTI specialises in managing the corporate travel and hotel reservations to over 500 companies.

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