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New Concur partnerships bring TripLink ease to Australian businesses
NEW integrations with the Concur TripLink cloud platform are opening up innovative ways Australian businesses can manage their corporate travel expenses, integrating with websites such as Booking.com and AirBnB.
TripLink is adding the capability to realise corporate discounts, monitor policy compliance, fulfil duty of care responsibilities, and report on bookings made directly with leading organisations that have partnered with Concur. 
Concur, an SAP company, recently partnered with globally-recognised Marriott, AccorHotels Group, Starwood hotels, IHG, Omni Hotel, Hotel Tonight and the Booking.com and AirBnB websites, integrating these sites with its TripLink platform.
Concur’s TripLink platform aims to offer business travellers the freedom to book accommodation with these brands, or wherever they find the best deal, while also capturing the details and providing organisations with the visibility needed to manage their travel and expenses budgets.
“The new partnerships represent a tremendous advance in corporate travel oversight for businesses in Australia, Europe, USA, and other regions,” said Concur director of business development for Asia Pacific, Murray Warner.
“While the new partnerships continue Concur’s momentum in expanding the list of suppliers joining the platform, it also means that Australian customers of the companies we’ve already partnered with have increased booking flexibility and the assurance that they are receiving the best rates on offer with these companies’ branded sites.
“Through these partnerships, Concur is providing all the benefits of its platforms while also providing visibility into direct bookings with some of the largest travel and accommodation brands in the world.
“Concur is tackling the problem of unmanaged travel bookings by helping travel managers fulfil duty of care requirements and by providing and increasing corporate negotiated rates with suppliers by having access to all of their employee’s business travel booking data,” Mr Warner said.
“It also provides great benefits to corporate travel agencies who now have the ability to provide a more comprehensive managed travel program by having access to more travel data. The suppliers themselves will also benefit by building unique relationships directly with the business travellers.”
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