Transforming Global Travel and Expense Management with Gamification

April 24, 2017

Companies need to take stock of their travel and expense (T&E) costs since these add up to unimaginable overheads. We believe the agamied T&E management system to be a viable solution. With millennials – who look for engaging and enriching experiences – making up a majority of the workforce today, the case for agamication solution is bolstered further.

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Travel by Handstand

Creator of the award-winning Travel by Handstand on the iPad, provides travel consumers with a new way of discovering, enjoying and interacting with travel stories. Users can quickly and easily create personal trip guides and interactive maps from daily stories. Within the first year of its launch, Travel by Handstand won the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation's Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition Travel App Gold 2012 award. A mobile version has been released as Crave Travel for iPhones, adding social and partner applications. Crave Travel won the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation's Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition Travel App Silver 2013 award. Most recently, the Crave Travel website has been launched to enable the same experience as its iPad and iPhone apps on the web.

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