About Us
Based in Calgary, Alberta and operating globally, Custom Travel Solutions Inc. is an industry leading boutique travel services company who provides customized solutions for the needs of businesses of all sizes.
Our Mission
To be a customer service company that utilizes technology to simplify and streamline the business of global travel for our customers and ourselves.
Custom Travel Solutions is the exclusive Travel Leaders Business Travel+ partner in Canada
With a reputation built on reliability and a commitment to excellence, Travel Leaders partners offer industry-leading products and services, and continuously seek higher levels of performance. Travel Leaders is actively engaged in reinventing the global travel business to keep pace with evolving technologies, investing in new systems and products to meet the demands of a changing industry. Due to Travel Leaders Group’s immense buying power, strong partnerships and international recognition as an industry leader, Custom Travel Solutions has access to exclusive programs that reward travellers with bonus services and experiences they cannot secure on their own.
Why us?
We foster a consultative and creative approach informed by the experience of our personnel and rooted in a practical commitment to making a difference. Our clients understand our enthusiasm for business travel and feel like a valued part of our company. The dynamic we establish is underpinned by a resolute focus on our core mission – the establishment of genuine client partnerships based on cost-efficient and quality-controlled travel management services tailored to their precise needs. Custom Travel Solutions ensures that your Corporate Travel Program receives the attention and focus it deserves by delivering:
- Service Excellence
- A Return on Investment
- Customized Solutions
- Best of Breed Technology
- Innovation
Sit back, Relax, Enjoy
Let us manage your travel program while you and your employees focus on your business’ core competencies to ensure you meet your revenue and profit targets.
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1. Level of customer Service
Our team delivers a level of customer service that will keep your travelling population happy, from the C-suite to the road warrior, at a cost that won’t break the bank
2. Employee Protection
Protect your employees – Custom Travel Solutions can help you implement policies and reporting to support ‘duty of care’ requirements
3. Track Travel Expenses
“You can’t manage what you can’t measure” – using Custom Travel Solutions allows you to track travel spend across segments, by vendors and by business units, to ensure you are maximizing your travel budget
4. Preferred Rates
Custom Travel Solutions can give you access to vendor programs that provide the benefits your business needs while reducing overall costs
Custom Travel Solutions utilizes a lowest logical fare methodology to ensure your employees travel cost effectively without wasting their time enroute.
Executive Team
Our Executive and Management Team works collaboratively to ensure that Custom Travel Solutions delivers the highest level of customer service possible and assists companies in tightly managing their travel budgets while ensuring traveller safety and satisfaction.
Beth Gardner
President & CEO
Founded in 1995, Custom Travel Solutions Inc. is an industry-leading and a financially stable Travel Management company which is locally owned and operated by Beth Gardner, President & CEO. As an organization, Custom Travel Solutions recognizes that our business revenue and sustainability are only the overall result of our genuine passion to truly exceed both the expectation of our clients and our staff by consistently thinking “outside the box”. Beth began her travel career in Tuktoyaktuk with a large Oil & Gas company. She was the first travel agent outside of the airlines able to book flights directly with the airlines. She managed weekly crew change check-in for the company’s 737 along with booking FLIFO for all crew change personnel. Thus her passion for Logistics continues to this day.
~2014. TOP 100 Female Entrepreneurs in Canada by Chatelaine / PROFIT’s Magazine
~2015. Awarded as one of the only 20 business entrepreneurs by Calgary Visionary Leaders-Awarded by Business in Calgary Magazine
~Nominated by the Royal Bank of Canada for “Women of Influence Award” where Beth was listed in the top 200 finalists in Canada
~2016 | 2017 | 2018 I 2019 Chosen by “Bristol’s Who’s Who” and “Worldwide Who’s Who” as one of the top 5 Female CEO Entrepreneurs Globally in Travel industry
~2016 | 2017 | 2018 I 2019 Honoured with a “Lifetime Achievement Award” and “Female Entrepreneur of the Year” by the International Association of Top Professionals
Sylvia Kerr
Manager, Projects & Implementations
Sylvia has been in the Travel Industry for over 20 years. Having started in the industry as a travel consultant, she has applied her knowledge and experience to manage a corporate travel program for a large Canadian retailer, provide front line support as a TMC Operations Manager and assist clients with their travel programs as an Account Manager. Sylvia’s current role utilizes this combined experience for client and technology implementations.
Valerie Anderson
Manager, Training & Operations
Valerie brings over 30 years experience in the travel industry to her role as Training Manager at Custom Travel Solutions. She began with an adventure focus before moving to Corporate travel where she focused on training, travel related systems, overall company efficiency systems and processes. She is responsible for all aspects of training the Custom Travel Team, and is part of the implementation team who works to onboard new accounts. Her extensive Sabre knowledge including integration with the online booking tool and back office systems make her a key resource to clients and colleagues alike.
Brenda Damstrom
Manager, Custom I-Book
Valerie brings over 30 years experience in the travel industry to her role as Training Manager at Custom Travel Solutions. She began with an adventure focus before moving to Corporate travel where she focused on training, travel related systems, overall company efficiency systems and processes. She is responsible for all aspects of training the Custom Travel Team, and is part of the implementation team who works to onboard new accounts. Her extensive Sabre knowledge including integration with the online booking tool and back office systems make her a key resource to clients and colleagues alike.
Code of Conduct
- We believe our strength is our people.
- We believe in making Custom Travel Solutions a fun and interesting place to work, which in turn produces better results for our customers.
- We have a multi-ethnic and bilingual work force in locations across Canada, which enables us to provide ‘follow the sun’ coverage.
- We have a dynamic mix of consultants who provide customers the benefit of many years of travel experience and the ability to pair consultants with companies based on their culture and needs.
- We always conduct ourselves honestly and honorably and expect our clients and suppliers to do the same.
- We conduct all of our activities professionally and with integrity. We take great care to be completely objective in our judgment and any recommendations that we give, so that issues are never influenced by anything other than the best and proper interests of our clients.
- We are respectful of others always. We strive to be fair and objective in our advice and actions, and we are never influenced in our decisions, actions or recommendations by issues of gender, race, creed, colour, age, sexual orientation or personal disability.
- We are committed to maintaining the highest degree of integrity in all our dealings with potential, current and past clients, both in terms of normal commercial confidentiality, and the protection of all personal information received in the course of providing the business services concerned.
- We maintain the quality of what we do through constant ongoing review with our clients, of all aims, activities, and outcomes. We encourage regular review meetings where clients are welcome to provide feedback to us on how our service is, or is not, meeting their business needs.
- We retain the moral rights in, and ownership of, all intellectual property that we create. In return we respect the moral and intellectual copyright vested in our clients’ intellectual property.
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Contact Us
Suite 340, 2116-27th Ave NE Calgary, Alberta T2E 7A6
E-mail: info@custom.travel
Toll Free: 1-877-864-4562
Phone us: 1-403-272-1000
Monday-Friday: 7:00am-5:00pm MST
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