make travel arrangements

Meaning

To 'make travel arrangements' means to plan and organize the details of a trip, such as booking flights, reserving hotel rooms, purchasing train tickets, or arranging ground transportation. This phrase is highly common in business English and formal correspondence.

Examples

• My assistant will contact you tomorrow to make travel arrangements for the upcoming conference.

  My assistant will contact you tomorrow to make travel arrangements for the upcoming conference.

• Please make your own travel arrangements and submit the receipts for reimbursement.

  Please make your own travel arrangements and submit the receipts for reimbursement.

• We need to make travel arrangements well in advance if we want to get the group discount.

  We need to make travel arrangements well in advance if we want to get the group discount.

• The HR department is responsible for helping new hires make travel arrangements.

  The HR department is responsible for helping new hires make travel arrangements.

• Before you make travel arrangements, please ensure your passport is valid for at least six months.

  Before you make travel arrangements, please ensure your passport is valid for at least six months.

Common Mistakes

• ✗ I need to do travel arrangements for my business trip.

  ✓ I need to make travel arrangements for my business trip.

  'Arrangements' collocates with the verb 'make', not 'do'.

• ✗ She is making travel arrangement for the client.

  ✓ She is making travel arrangements for the client.

  The phrase almost always uses the plural 'arrangements' because planning a trip involves multiple tasks or steps.

Related Expressions

Practice

• Could you please ___ for our guest speaker's arrival next week?

  💡 Verb phrase meaning to book flights and hotels.

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  make travel arrangements

• It's hard to ___ when flight schedules keep changing.

  💡 Use the plural form of 'arrangement'.

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  make travel arrangements