With business travellers heavily dependent on mobile technology, travel and expense management solution provider and SAP company Concur has partnered with ridesharing app Lyft and last-minute hotel booking app HotelTonight.
“Our data shows half of business trips are booked less than two weeks out, which fuels the need for on-demand travel apps,” said Tim MacDonald, executive vice president of travel, Concur.
“By partnering with companies like Lyft and HotelTonight, we’ve advancing our commitment to innovation and extending the instantaneous benefits of on-demand services to business travellers, all while making that spend visible to travel managers wherever it happens.”
A 2015 survey of travel managers by Carlson Wagonlit found that more than 50 per cent say the on-demand and sharing economies are a top trend impacting travel programs. Concur saw an increase of seven times the amount of spend by its customers expensing Lyft, during 2014, while more than 40 per cent of people who book with HotelTonight have used it for business travel.
Sam Shank, co-founder and CEO, HotelTonight, said their business is built to meet the needs of the last-minute traveller.
“Integration with Concur will further our ability to serve this audience and provide our business customers a streamlined booking and reporting experience for the process of finding a hotel from seven days out up to the eleventh hour.”
