-- Jointly Creating a New Era of Business Travel and Expense Management
Shanghai, August 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, Concur, the global leader in the business travel and expense management market, announced that it has officially formed a strategic partnership with Ctrip Corporate Travel, China’s leading business travel management company. The goal is to combine Concur’s extensive industry experience with Ctrip Corporate Travel’s market advantages in China’s business travel management sector, delivering high-quality, integrated solutions for both the Chinese and global markets, and jointly creating a new era in the business travel and expense management industry.
With the advancement of global integration and the continuous opening of the Chinese market, not only have a large number of international enterprises successively entered China, but an increasing number of Chinese domestic companies have also begun to expand their operations globally. The growing demand for business travel among corporate employees has directly made business travel and expense management one of the most critical components of corporate expenditure management.
As the market leader under SAP in providing business travel and expense management solutions for enterprises, Concur, together with Ctrip Corporate Travel, China’s leading business travel management company, combines Ctrip Corporate Travel’s core competitiveness in the travel market with Concur’s industry experience in business process automation. The two parties will work together to help clients achieve rapid return on investment, cost control, and enhanced employee productivity.
Signing ceremony scene of Concur and Ctrip Corporate Travel (from left: Fang Jiqin, Vice President of Ctrip and CEO of Ctrip Corporate Travel; Hou Wentai, Managing Director of Concur Asia)
Moreover, Concur will work with Ctrip Corporate Travel to provide higher-quality business travel and expense management services for users in the Chinese market, assisting Chinese users in accessing Concur’s diverse global services through Ctrip’s mature travel service platform.
At the same time, with the outstanding technology and powerful features brought by this collaboration, Concur and Ctrip Corporate Travel will better support client business growth and innovation.
Fang Jiqin, Vice President of Ctrip and CEO of Ctrip Corporate Travel, said: “Ctrip Corporate Travel has always been committed to helping enterprises improve their business travel management level. Excellent business travel control solutions not only help save costs for enterprises but also enhance financial work efficiency and employee satisfaction. We believe this collaboration with Concur will truly elevate the travel experience for our clients.”
Hou Wentai, Managing Director of Concur Asia, said: “In the process of global integration, enterprises require efficient and transparent business travel and expense management, and Concur has always been dedicated to providing excellent related solutions for global enterprises. Our decision to form a strategic partnership with Ctrip Corporate Travel is precisely to help global enterprises leverage both Concur’s leading technology and Ctrip’s strong market advantages, accessing Concur’s high-quality global services through Ctrip’s service platform, thereby achieving more efficient and transparent business travel and expense management.”
Industry insiders analyze that this collaboration will accelerate the internationalization process of China’s business travel management industry.
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