As businesses scale, their travel challenges evolve just as quickly: more travelers to support, more spend to manage, and higher expectations for a seamless experience. Consumer tools can’t keep up, and legacy systems often feel too heavy or costly for what SMBs actually need. Growing companies move fast, and they deserve a travel program that can match their pace.
Direct Travel created Avenir: Travel Edition to give SMBs a smarter, more scalable way to manage travel. Powered by Spotnana’s next-generation technology and backed by Direct Travel’s expert service, Avenir delivers enterprise-grade capabilities without the enterprise burden. It gives SMBs the clarity, control, and functionality they need to reduce friction, elevate the traveler experience, and unlock the same advantages enjoyed by the world’s largest travel programs.
Here’s how Avenir equips high-growth organizations to rapidly reimagine their travel programs with a focus on simplicity and cost efficiency.
Improved User Experience & Traveler Compliance
Outside of the workplace, employees are used to booking everything from dinner to long-haul vacations on intuitive apps that anticipate their preferences. When they encounter dated, hard-to-navigate tools in the work environment, the experience feels jarring and inefficient.
Avenir delivers the kind of clean, consumer-grade experience travelers expect, built for speed and ease from the very first search. When travelers have an intuitive, modern tool, they adopt it, and adoption is what drives compliance, savings, and satisfaction. Additionally, with no steep learning curve or complicated procedures to complete, lean teams save valuable time and avoid the workarounds that typically drain productivity.
This is all enabled by Spotnana’s modern platform, which powers Avenir and reimagines the corporate travel infrastructure from the ground up. Rather than rely on legacy systems that can involve long support queues or manual workarounds, Avenir enables travelers to book trips, make changes, and manage cancellations independently. Personalized shopping surfaces the best options based on loyalty status and negotiated benefits, with real-time availability that eliminates the frustration of stale or inaccurate results.
The result is a platform employees choose to use, not one they feel forced to navigate.
Access to the Best Fares & Content
Even with a great user experience, travelers often stray from approved tools because they assume they’ll find cheaper or better options on consumer sites. For SMBs, those “workarounds” erode policy compliance and add unnecessary complexity.
Avenir eliminates that tension by delivering industry-leading fares and comprehensive global travel content in one seamless interface, complete with direct airline and hotel connections. Businesses get greater control and visibility, while their travelers get transparent, real-time options.
This includes:
- Complete, up-to-date global content in one place
- Clear visibility into fare rules and savings opportunities
- Policy controls that prevent overspend before it happens
- Automatic tracking and application of unused airline credits — a major source of preventable waste for many organizations
Finance leaders can monitor spend trends through real-time dashboards and adjust policies at the speed of business. This provides the opportunity for a more sophisticated program without the complexity typically associated with enterprise tools.
Service That Scales With You
Technology is essential, but human expertise remains irreplaceable during travel disruptions. This is especially the case for small and mid-sized businesses, where lean teams often don’t have the capacity to manage last-minute travel cancellations internally or support travelers when plans change unexpectedly.
Avenir pairs its modern platform with Direct Travel’s expert servicing teams, ensuring travelers always have access to experienced support across chat, phone, and email. The real difference comes from how this support works compared to traditional systems.
Because Avenir is powered by Spotnana’s shared data layer, travelers and agents see the exact same information in real time—including itineraries, fare rules, disruption alerts, and unused credits. This unified view eliminates the classic “I don’t see what you see” friction that slows down resolution in traditional systems.
It’s faster, clearer, and dramatically more efficient, especially during time-sensitive changes.
Streamlined Operations for Fast-Moving Teams
SMBs shouldn’t have to dedicate disproportionate time or resources to get a travel program off the ground and keep it running on track. Avenir is built for rapid deployment and minimal ongoing lift.
Unlike most models of travel management, Avenir offers the ability to:
- Launch in days or weeks, depending on program size
- Set up smart policies easily with clear guidance
- Add travelers instantly, via HR integrations or a simple upload
- Book confidently from day one with resource libraries and in-platform guidance
Every part of the workflow is designed to minimize administrative burden so your team can stay focused on the work that moves your business forward.
Built for Today’s Needs, Ready for Tomorrow
Avenir is more than a travel platform; it’s a foundation for long-term growth. By being built on top of Spotnana’s open, modular framework, Avenir can evolve alongside your business. New innovations, partner integrations, payment capabilities, and AI-driven tools can be incorporated without major disruption.
For SMBs ready to scale, this means your travel program won’t just work better today — it will keep getting better over time. If you’re ready to simplify travel, improve compliance, and elevate your travelers’ experience, schedule a demo to get started.
