conTgo's Johnny Thorsen  and George Freney with Dynamiq's Anthony Moorhouse

conTgo and Dynamiq announced their entry into a strategic partnership yesterday in a move set to provide travel management companies (TMC) with “proactive” handling of corporate traveller safety.

conTgo, a provider of corporate traveller experience solutions will work in conjunction with Dynamiq’s expertise as an international emergency management company to offer organisations, via their TMCs, a corporate travel strategy that extends beyond procurement to an “interactive, real-time policy”.

“As events such as the Icelandic Volcano eruption...have shown, travelling can be a risky business and this is why we have chosen to enter into this strategic partnership with risk experts, Dynamiq,” conTgo Chief Executive Johnny Thorsen said.

 “The workplace extends to wherever [organisations] are sending staff to,” Dynamiq Managing Director Anthony Moorhouse said.

“As corporations have a legal responsibility for their employees whilst travelling, it is important that they do everything possible to mitigate risks and to ensure that staff can be contacted in the event of an emergency,” said.

According to Mr Moorhouse, in the past, corporate travel policies and security procedures were limited by technology, making it difficult for organisations to locate and interact with their travellers in crisis situations.

“With ConTgo we’re able to turn [corporate travel policies] into something tangible,” he said.

On offer is a web-based “single trusted mobile communication and information platform” that allows organisations and TMCs to contact travellers during a crisis.

Often corporate travel policies are procurement led, with security a separate entity, Mr Thorsen said.

“ConTgo is working jointly with Microsoft to build the bridge between procurement and security...Here, we have one place to look at everything.”

Corporate travel company QBT is a strategic partner of ConTgo and has exclusive rights to the offering for a year from its launch.