Concur, an SAP company, has struck a deal to allow its customers to access corporate content from AirAsia, which will help businesses reduce their corporate travel spend.
According to a McKinsey report commissioned by the Singapore Tourism Board, Asia is the largest market and epicentre for business travel in the world, with low cost carriers taking a growing market share of business travel in the region. In Asia, low cost carriers comprised 29 per cent of all business travel expenditure on flights – the most penetrated region in the world.
“Our collaboration with AirAsia Group, by far the largest low cost carrier grouping in Asia, will provide our customers with a great cost saving window on their travel budgets. Concur’s easy-to-use business travel and expense management software solution helps businesses save time, money and gain control,” said Nick Evered, senior vice president and general manager, Asia Pacific, Concur.
“We are delighted to collaborate with Concur, who will play a key role in our corporate sales strategy. Through Concur Travel, we will offer both our regular content, as well as exclusive corporate content to those who have a direct corporate agreement with AirAsia. As companies continue to manage their travel budgets in the challenging economic times, we look forward to supporting Concur’s customers in budgeting their employee travel costs,” said Barry Klipp, group head of corporate sales, AirAsia.
