FCM Travel has won a strong vote of trust from Arcadis. The global design and consultancy group has signed a landmark 10-year partnership with the travel management company.
The deal was announced in London on 28 July 2026. It follows an initial three-year relationship between the two companies. Arcadis runs a travel program across more than 25 countries. So, this is no small diary entry. It is a decade-long pledge with global reach.
The new contract brings Arcadis’s corporate travel, FCM Meetings & Events and FCM Consulting services into one partnership. The aim is clear. Both sides want less admin, more consistency and more time for long-term planning.
Corporate travel contracts often run for three years. A 10-year term is rare. It gives both companies room to test ideas, improve systems and measure results. Best of all, there is no renewal deadline tapping its watch every few years.
One partnership, fewer moving parts
Arcadis will use the FCM Platform for global travel management. The platform supports bookings, approvals, reports, traveller messages and risk services. FCM says it also offers predictive reports and a choice of more than 600 core travel reports.
For Arcadis, the single agreement should make it easier to manage data and service standards across markets. It should also help with supplier ties. The deal links travel with meetings, events and consulting. That gives both teams a wider view of spending, traveller needs and program results.
Melissa Elf, Global Managing Director of FCM Travel, said the deal backed FCM’s “alternative” mindset. She said large global firms want partners that can challenge old habits and grow with them.
Her point is sound. A long contract is not useful just because it is long. It must give both sides the confidence to build, review and improve. If not, ten years can feel less like a partnership and more like a very slow airport queue.
Travel moves beyond the cost column
Jo Lloyd, Global Head of Account Management for FCM Consulting, linked the extension to a shared belief in “dual progression”.
That phrase sums up the wider aim. FCM is not being asked only to book trips. It must help Arcadis improve its travel program. It must also support its people and help deliver better business results.
Ian Spearing, Arcadis Director of Travel, said the deal would support joint work, strong service and lasting growth. He also said Arcadis wanted travel to become a “value driver for the business, not just a cost”.
That is the key business point. Corporate travel has often been seen as an expense to control. Today’s travel programs must do more. They must support duty of care, staff output, good data and greener choices. They must also help firms make better supplier deals.
Trust now carries a 10-year timetable
The contract also places a large duty on FCM. A decade of business is a prize. It also brings a decade of high hopes.
FCM must keep its technology useful, its service steady and its advice fresh. Arcadis gains a stable partner and more time to plan. The deal suggests some global clients may choose deep teamwork over frequent tender rounds. That choice still needs the right checks and safeguards.
Arcadis has more than 34,000 staff in over 30 countries. Its work spans design, engineering and consulting. Sustainability is also central to its public strategy. A travel program for a group of that size needs firm controls, clear data and sound local help.
For the wider corporate travel sector, this deal sets a strong mark. It shows that long-term contracts can win support when they rest on trust, good technology and a clear plan.
FCM has secured ten years. Now comes the harder part: making every one of them count.
By: Sandra Jones – © 2026.
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Sandra has spent a working lifetime quietly rescuing journeys, one itinerary, one anxious caller, one impossible connection at a time. Years in Australia’s finest travel agencies taught her the art of calm, how to find a flight in a fog of cancellations, how to soothe a traveller when luggage wanders, how to turn nine frantic days in Europe into something resembling sense. Qualified, seasoned, endlessly patient, she learned that good travel advice is part logistics, part listening.
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