The visa bottleneck killing corporate travel efficiency

Visa management is today what faxes were to travel agencies two decades ago: a medieval process that somehow survives inside digital workflows. According to Hosteltur, half of Spanish professionals who traveled for work last year had to handle a visa or electronic travel authorization, and here's what bothers me: almost half ran into real friction during the process. Delays, unexpected fees, out-of-pocket cash advances, postponed trips.

But watch what's happening next. Corporate travel platforms like Perk get it: this headache can be solved by embedding visa applications directly into the booking flow. It's not magic, it's obvious. If you have the traveler's profile, origin, and destination in your system, why force them to jump to another site to apply for a visa? That's a brutal opportunity for whoever cracks it right.

For hoteliers using PMS integrated with corporate travel systems, this means fewer last-minute cancellations, fewer broken group bookings, less cash hanging in the air. For chains, it's less friction on enterprise group reservations. The real question isn't whether this happens, it's who does it first and well.