Amadeus: CTrip Corporate Travel Gains Access to Extensive Hospitality Content Through Renewed Strategic Partnership with Amadeus
Shanghai-based CTrip Corporate Travel - from Trip.com Group - renews strategic partnership agreement with Amadeus delivering hospitality content to corporate customers across China
Bangkok, 24th August, 2021 - Covid-19 has had an extraordinary impact on business travel, and now many agencies are rethinking aspects of their business, accommodating the changing needs of corporate travelers. To support its 12,000+ corporate customers travel in and out of China, CTrip Corporate Travel has renewed a multi-year strategic partnership with Amadeus to support the technology innovation needed for expanding its operations across Asia Pacific.
CTrip Corporate Travel’s customers can now shop and book hospitality content via the Amadeus Travel Platform. They will benefit from working on the same platform that over one million properties use - from hotel chains to aggregators and other leading accommodation providers -, giving them unrivalled access to real-time rates and the content they need to serve their customers. Accommodation types range from five-star hotels to B&Bs to managed apartments. A variety of different business models and payment options are available.
Steve Zhang, CEO of Ctrip Corporate Travel, said: “We are excited to see the strong recovery of corporate travel in China. Despite the extensive use of conferencing options, business travel has recovered stronger, in line with the domestic economic growth in this market. With business travelers increasingly turning to corporate travel management services, we are delighted to renew our strategic long-term partnership with Amadeus. The Amadeus Travel Platform will be a cornerstone in the expansion of our travel management business this year and beyond.”
Brian Chien, Senior Vice President, Travel Sellers and Online, Greater China and Managing Director, Amadeus China said: “As one of the world’s largest business travel markets, China presents tremendous growth opportunities for our business, and our strategic partnership with Trip.com Group has helped Amadeus establish a strong presence in the country. We are pleased to be supporting CTrip Corporate Travel in bringing its customers extensive and relevant hotel content through the Amadeus Travel Platform, so its travelers can get back on the road safely and confidently.”
The Amadeus Travel Platform is built on open systems, harnessing intelligent use of data and integrating new interfaces and architectures. Processing 100K+ end-user transactions per second at peak, end-user transactions can include anything from a low fare search to a credit card authorization request.
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About Ctrip Corporate Travel and Trip.com Group:
Ctrip Corporate Travel is China's famous travel management company (TMC) under Trip.com Group. Relying on its strengths in resources, technologies, services, and management,
Ctrip Corporate Travel has served 12,000+ large enterprises (including 300 Fortune 500 and 100+ of China's top 500 firms) and 520,000+ SMEs over the past decade. Since 2006, we have been helping business clients streamline booking and approval processes, improve and implement travel policies, and control overall travel costs. We provide advice based on industrial data analytics to help clients improve their travel management and have saved up to 30% of travel costs for them.
Trip.com Group Limited is a fast-growing one-stop travel service provider comprising of Trip.com, Ctrip, Skyscanner, and Qunar. Across its platforms, Trip.com Group enables local partners and travelers around the world to make informed and cost-effective bookings for travel products and services, through the aggregation of comprehensive travel-related information and resources, and an advanced transaction platform consisting of mobile apps, Internet websites and 24/7 customer service centers. Founded in 1999 and listed on NASDAQ in 2003, Trip.com Group has become one of the best-known travel brands in the world, with the mission of 'making every trip the perfect trip'.
About Amadeus
Travel powers progress. Amadeus powers travel. Amadeus’ solutions connect travelers to the journeys they want through travel agents, search engines, tour operators, airlines, airports, hotels, cars and railways.
We have developed our technology in partnership with the travel industry for over 30 years. We combine a deep understanding of how people travel with the ability to design and deliver the most complex, trusted, critical systems our customers need. We help connect over 1.6 billion people a year to local travel providers in over 190 countries.
We are one company, with a global mindset and a local presence wherever our customers need us.
Our purpose is to shape the future of travel. We are passionate in our pursuit of better technology that makes better journeys.
Amadeus is an IBEX 35 company, listed on the Spanish Stock Exchange under AMS.MC. The company is also part of the EuroStoxx50 and has been recognized by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for the last eight years.
To find out more about Amadeus, visit www.amadeus.com.