Uber and Other Illegal Taxi Services in Hong Kong

[SusanT]

Hello,

Wondering how everyone is handling illegal taxi service in Hong Kong. I didn't realize Uber is illegal and so we want to ensure our users are not submitting for non-permitted taxi service while in Hong Kong. We can add a message to our Travel policy, but I do want to add some sort of reminder in Expense - this will most likely be an audit rule of some sort, triggered by expense type + currency, or perhaps location,  just reminding them to use legally permitted taxis.  Not really sure what else I can do beyond that. Open to ideas!

Thanks!

[KevinD · Accepted solution]

@SusanT I would say your ideas are really all you can do. Once a traveler is in Hong Kong, you can't really monitor their behavior and whether they are using legal local transportation methods. If you wanted to really drive this policy, your policy could state that Uber expenses incurred in Hong Kong are at the user's own expense and will not be reimbursed.