Rome2rio has entered into a partnership with Concur, the world’s leading provider of spend management solutions and services, to bring Rome2rio’s journey planning solutions to Concur users worldwide.
Door-to-door trip with Rome2rio for Concur’s customers (Image credit: Bet Noire/iStock)
With this partnership, Concur customers will be able to plan a complete door-to-door trip with Rome2rio and have the itinerary automatically sent back to Concur as a travel request prior to booking a trip.
Rod Cuthbert, Rome2rio CEO, said: “This collaboration reflects a growing awareness among business travellers that looking carefully at all the transport options for a journey can have a dramatic effect on the overall cost and efficiency of a trip.
“Most travellers focus on air and hotel costs, however in many cases air is simply not the best option. In other cases, the ‘final leg’ of the trip may have an outsize impact on trip cost. We enable business travellers to look at different travel options, compare costs, and then seek approval for the overall cost rather than only certain elements.”
Concur customers will benefit from Rome2rio’s comprehensive coverage of ground transportation options in Europe.
Jigish Avalani, Concur’s SVP & GM, developer services, platform services, said: “Travellers in Europe have many transport mode options, but it’s been difficult to quantify the relative costs on a side by side basis. Being able to quickly compare the relative costs and trip durations associated with air, rail, inter-city coach, self-drive and new options such as rideshare provides an unique benefit for our customers and aligns with our vision of the perfect trip.”
The companies plan to complete the integration of their solutions in the first quarter of 2015.
Below: Screenshot example shows various transport options for a typical European business trip.
