Corporate travel is filled with financial blind spots, from incorrect hotel rates to missed airfare savings and TMC incentives that can quietly drive up costs.
In January of 2025, Partnership Travel Consulting acquired Fare Audit to create the corporate travel industry’s leading independent audit firm, blending PTC’s corporate travel expertise with Fare Audit’s state-of-the-art technology and seasoned travel auditors.
PTC delivers comprehensive travel and expense auditing that brings transparency, savings and accountability to every part of your managed travel program. All audits are conducted at time of booking.
Hotel Rate Audits
Hotel spend is the largest savings opportunity in any travel program. PTC ensures your preferred hotel rates—including Last Room Availability (LRA)—are correctly loaded and applied at booking. Auditing only once a year allows hotels to “forget” to load your rates for the subsequent quarter.
If a traveler books outside policy or chooses a hotel independently (“unattached hotel”), we immediately notify them to ensure safety, tracking and cost control.
When a preferred hotel is booked with LRA at the wrong rate, we contact the property directly to secure the correct negotiated discount.
✔ Guaranteed access to negotiated rates
✔ Reduced leakage from direct hotel bookings
✔ Improved traveler safety and program compliance
✔ Stronger leverage for hotel RFPs
Airfare Audits
PTC performs live and daily airfare audits to verify that the lowest logical fare is booked within policy—and that GDS, airline and TMC bias aren’t inflating costs.
Live audits occur within an hour of booking, allowing time to rebook at a lower fare before ticketing.
✔ Lower average ticket price
✔ Protection against upselling driven by TMC/GDS incentives
✔ Compliance with corporate fare policies
TMC Audits
Travel management companies operate under a dual‑income model—earning money from both clients and suppliers. This can create conflicts of interest that can drive higher airfares, hotel rates and indirect costs.
PTC actively manages this dynamic through commission audits, priority hotel placement audits, online booking tool performance audits and supplier compliance audits.
✔ Transparency into supplier incentives that impact your costs
✔ Accountability for TMC performance
✔ Data to support RFPs, renegotiations, or policy changes
Real-Time PNR Audits
PTC is the only firm offering live, time-of‑booking audits of both hotel and airfare.
Within 60 minutes of a reservation, our systems detect missed corporate rates, lower available fares, unattached or out‑of‑policy hotels, incorrect fare classes and booking behaviors that increase cost. Actionable alerts allow immediate correction—before the traveler departs and before unnecessary spend hits your budget.
✔ Instant savings opportunities
✔ Stronger program compliance
✔ Reduced fraud and leakage
✔ Rich data for continuous improvement
Historical Commission & Expense Audits
PTC reviews past bookings to ensure your company receives the commissions and credits your TMC committed to return. This includes hotel commission audits, airline incentive validation and reconciliation of commissions.
✔ Recovery of missed revenue
✔ Validation of TMC contractual performance
✔ Insight into long-term patterns of under-payment
Book your risk-free 30-day audit today.
PTC combines decades of audit experience with real-time technology to deliver complete insight into your travel program. With 58 years of combined experience, Fare Audit Inc. and Partnership Travel Consulting bring unmatched expertise in auditing, compliance, supplier dynamics and TMC incentives.