Gekko Group, parent company of Hcorpo, one of the key players in corporate hotel distribution, has just signed a partnership agreement with SAP Concur to strengthen the hotel offering of its Concur Travel platform. Under development since 2023, the new version of SAP Concur's business travel reservation solution is based on a more fluid user experience and a more intuitive interface. enriched content. The more than 2 million establishments in Hcorpo's inventory in over 180 countries will now be available to corporate clients and business travel agencies alike.
Through the integration of Hcorpo's content with SAP Concur's Hotel Connector, users will also benefit from a wide choice of rates - This is combined with optimised expense management and centralised tools for commission management and reporting. As for travellers, the booking experience is described as " intuitive "and encouraging user adoption ".
" This integration has been designed to simplify operations and optimise performance, for both large companies and local TMCs. "said Salomé Mogier, Chief Commercial Officer at Hcorpo. But this collaboration goes further than the aggregation of Hcorpo's offering. While a number of players such as HRS and Amex GBT had already integrated their content into the Hotel Connector, the partnership between SAP and Gekko is based on another of the group's brands, Gekko Tech, which becomes one of the connectors, along with HotelHub, of the new Concur Travel ecosystem. This is a technological advance that other hotel aggregators and TMCs will be able to take advantage of by integrating their content more easily into the online reservation platform.
New interface for car rental in 2023integration of rail in partnership with Trainline last year, and the addition of emissions data in association with Thrust Carbon this year.provide developments at Concur Travel. In the meantime, we are looking forward to taking intelligent travel automation a step further with Booking Agent, an AI-powered conversational agent due for release in the fourth quarter.
