American Express Business Travel has reported a strong mid-year sales up by 33% in Asia Pacific and 36% year over year increase in sales as on June 2008.
In contribution to the growth of the organization the companies that have recently signed a new agreement or companies with the extended agreements with American Express Business Travel across Asia Pacific have increased.Few companies included in it are: Australia Post in Australia, Invensys in India, Emerson and Symantec in Singapore and Kraft China.
Libby Roy, GM and VP American Express Business Travel, Japan, Asia Pacific and Australia commented on the news: “As a leading travel management company, our focus is to help companies optimize their travel spending – regardless of economic conditions. We are pleased that in today’s environment, businesses from across industry sectors and geographies are turning to us to provide the technology, expert insight and customer service they need to generate cost savings and maximize their business travel investment”.
Expecting the growth trend to continue as companies look to drive further cost savings into their travel programs the company has recently appointed Jonas Borglin to the position of director, business development, Advisory Services, Japan, Asia Pacific and Australia.
Libby Roy said that many customers we work with have focused on how to travel smarter and implement strategies to drive savings so they can keep travelers on the road. It is in this type of environment that our Advisory Services offering becomes an even more valuable resource for our customers to take advantage of.
“Quantifiable savings can be achieved on air, hotel and meetings spend through in-depth analysis of our extensive travel data repository, benchmarking, and the specialist vendor negotiation we undertake on behalf of customers.”
“We have had an online booking tool in Singapore since 2003 and there is strong demand from our customers in that market for an enhanced offering. To date the industry infrastructure hasn’t supported a fully online self service booking tool which is why we have created our own to give our customers access to the most relevant and accurate online content available. We expect this enhancement to double our online usage rates by the end of 2009.”
“In more mature markets such as Australia the majority of domestic bookings are now made online. Later on in the year we will be launching an enhanced online booking tool in India.”
