Friday, October 29, 2010

AirPlus Survey Highlights Emerging Markets as a Challenge for Global Corporate Travel Programs

AirPlus International (Alexandria, Va.), a global provider of corporate travel payment solutions, has released October’s The Wire…from AirPlus entitled: Travel Programs Grapple with Emerging Markets. More than 78 percent of corporate travel professionals surveyed run global or multinational travel programs and said that obtaining visas, collecting and normalizing data and getting access to supplier content were the biggest challenges in Brazil, Russia, India and China (the BRIC countries). For more details, including a complimentary .PDF of the results, please visit the AirPlus Community.

“We found that payment was also an issue for nearly 70 percent of travel managers covering China. A small percentage of Chinese business travelers use cards as a form of payment in the region. However, as the only lodged card in the region, offered in collaboration with Air China and our co-branded China Merchant Bank’s corporate card, AirPlus provides companies in China with a solution today. Read more about Travel Management in China in our recent white paper launched on the topic,” said Richard Crum, president and CEO of AirPlus International Inc.

For more information, visit www.airplus.com.

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