Fairjungle vs Perk (formerly TravelPerk): why choose Fairjungle?

Fairjungle is a French business travel platform and agency combining technology with human expertise.

Rather than progressively expanding into a broader spend-management platform, Fairjungle focuses its expertise on Travel: booking, travel policies, approvals, invoicing, reporting, traveller assistance and carbon reduction.

Companies can therefore automate a large part of their travel management while retaining access to specialized travel agents whenever needed.

Fairjungle agents are based in France, trained on their clients’ business processes and experienced with both the Fairjungle platform and the main business travel environments, including GDS, NDC, Trainline and other distribution systems.

Pricing is one of the main differences between Fairjungle and Perk.

With Fairjungle, there are no hidden fees: pricing is transparent and no additional margin is added to supplier rates.With its subscription model, Fairjungle starts at €9 per month per active traveller. This means companies only pay for employees who actually travel, rather than for their entire workforce.Fairjungle also offers pay-as-you-go models for companies that prefer pricing linked to actual bookings.

Perk currently uses a different model. Its Essential Travel plan has no monthly subscription fee but charges 5% per booking. Its Premium and Pro plans are currently priced at €99 and €299 per month respectively, plus 3% per booking.

For companies with regular booking volumes, Fairjungle’s active-traveller model can therefore provide greater visibility and predictability over platform costs.

Changing business travel platforms should not require additional investment before employees have even started travelling.

Fairjungle does not charge any setup fees.

Companies can also test the platform free of charge for 30 days before subscribing.

This allows businesses to test the booking experience, travel policies, invoice management and customer support before making a decision.

Platform configuration is fast and supported by Fairjungle teams to ensure the solution reflects the company’s travel rules and internal processes.

Fairjungle does not rely on a single inventory source.

Its Multi-source Best-Buy engine compares several distribution sources to identify the most relevant offers for travellers.

The platform provides access to flights, trains, hotels and car rentals, while combining negotiated Fairjungle rates, client-negotiated rates, direct supplier connections and algorithmic fare combinations.

This approach helps find the best balance between price, journey duration, comfort, travel policy and environmental impact.

Fairjungle does not add markup to supplier rates: the objective is to give companies access to the best available fares while maintaining complete transparency over platform costs.

User experience is another core focus of Fairjungle.

The booking engine analyses available options and directly recommends the most relevant itineraries based on traveller habits, company policy, price and other configured criteria.

A booking can be completed in under 60 seconds.

The goal is also to maximize platform adoption. Fairjungle reports a 98% adoption rate, helping reduce bookings made outside the tool and giving Travel Managers greater visibility over business trips.

Travellers also have access to a mobile companion where they can view itineraries, manage bookings and receive real-time notifications.

When a flight is cancelled, a train is disrupted or an itinerary needs to be changed urgently, the quality of support becomes essential.
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Fairjungle relies on expert travel agents based in France and trained on their clients’ processes.
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Support is available via chat, email and phone, with dedicated assistance for urgent situations.
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Chat and email support is available from 9am to 10pm on weekdays and from 10am to 6pm at weekends. For urgent requests, 24/7 telephone assistance is available.
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The differentiator versus Perk is therefore not to claim that the competitor does not provide support in French, it does, but rather to offer operational proximity with a French Travel team that understands each client’s specific program.

An effective corporate travel program should not simply apply the same spending cap to every employee.

Fairjungle allows companies to build dynamic and granular travel policies based on their own rules: traveller populations, teams, budgets, destinations, transport modes or travel context.

Approval workflows can then automatically approve compliant bookings and request validation only when it is genuinely required.

Travel Managers maintain control without unnecessarily complicating the employee experience.

Through the Smart Policy Center and dynamic policies, company rules are embedded directly into the booking journey.

Companies need to understand exactly where their travel budget is going.

Fairjungle centralizes booking data and allows businesses to analyse spending in real time by service type, supplier, project, cost centre or customized analytical fields.

Travel Managers can monitor bookings, travel-policy compliance and employee behaviour. Finance teams, meanwhile, gain a consolidated view of spend and invoicing.

Invoices are centralized in a single interface, and data can be connected to the company’s HR, Finance, Expense, controlling and security systems.

Fairjungle estimates that this automation can save up to 20 hours per month on accounting administration.

Reducing the environmental impact of business travel is built into Fairjungle’s approach.

Fairjungle is part of Bpifrance’s Coq Vert ecosystem, which brings together companies committed to the ecological and energy transition.

More importantly, Fairjungle’s approach does not simply consist of measuring emissions after the trip has taken place.

The booking engine can recommend lower-carbon alternatives directly when the traveller selects an itinerary. Companies can implement FairCarbon policies to guide employees towards more responsible transport options and then track emissions through dedicated carbon dashboards.

Fairjungle therefore helps companies act at three levels: avoid certain trips when relevant, prioritize lower-carbon options and measure the results achieved.

Perk now also offers an environmental solution, Green Trip, which includes carbon measurement, reduction and offsetting. It would therefore no longer be accurate to state that Perk has no sustainability policy.

Fairjungle’s differentiation lies more in the way carbon reduction has historically been integrated into its recommendation engine and travel policies themselves.

Fairjungle highlights an average 15% reduction in business travel carbon emissions among the benefits generated by its solution.

Fairjungle was designed to address the needs of Travel Managers, Finance teams and travellers at the same time.

According to the results highlighted by Fairjungle, the platform can help companies achieve 20–30% savings on their travel budget, reduce their carbon footprint by 15%, save up to 20 hours per month on accounting administration and reach a 98% employee adoption rate.

And implementation remains free: €0 setup fees.

For Travel Managers, this means greater visibility and control over the travel program. For Finance, better spend management and centralized invoicing. For travellers, a fast and simple booking experience with human support available whenever needed.

Gain complete visibility over business travel to better manage spend, travel policy and traveller safety.With a 98% platform adoption rate, Fairjungle also helps reduce bookings made outside the company’s approved travel programme.

Control travel spend before it happens through dynamic policies and automated approval processes.

Invoices are centralized in one place, while Travel data can be connected to your Finance and management-control systems.

Fairjungle simplifies the employee experience through an intelligent booking engine, personalized recommendations, a mobile travel companion, real-time notifications and access to Travel agents whenever support is needed.

Both platforms can effectively manage business travel, but they do not follow exactly the same approach.

Perk is particularly positioned as an international platform combining Travel and Spend within a single environment.

Fairjungle is particularly well suited to companies primarily looking for a high-performing business travel solution with strong Travel expertise, a France-based team, highly customizable travel policies, transparent pricing, multi-source inventory and a lower-carbon approach embedded directly into the booking experience.

For French or European companies looking to modernize their travel program without losing the proximity of an expert travel agency, Fairjungle therefore represents a particularly relevant alternative to Perk.