international shortcuts: business apps for global travelers
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U.S. business travel is anticipated to keep growing:
International business travel originating in the U.S. will also grow:
Peer-to-peer and mobile travel tools are trending upward—skyward, even.
MOBILE TRAVEL SALES
2015:
6.2%
TO $310.2 BILLION
2015:
6%VOLUME INCREASE
7.9%SPENDING GROWTH
A SAMPLING OF SOLUTIONS:
Taxback International, Permiso by Pearl Travel Tech, VAT Cloud by VAT IT, Blackspark, Axosnet
VISAS, TAXES & VAT:
TripLingo, Visage Int’l Roaming Alerts, GigSky, Concur Messaging
COMMUNICATIONS:
Addison Lee, Curb, eCab, mytaxi, Taxis G7, Uber
TRANSPORTATION BOOKINGS:
LoungeBuddy, shopnfly, Duty Free Americas, Global Airport Concierge
AIRPORT SERVICES:INTERNATIONAL EXPENSEMANAGEMENT:
Concur, Oversight, Replicon
Traveling for business can be tiring—even more so when it’s beyond your country’s borders. Apps that take the headache out of international travel are in high demand.
INTERNATIONAL SHORTCUTSBUSINESS APPS FOR GLOBAL TRAVELERS
FREQUENT FLIERSAround the world, business travel spending will increase by 8.6% in 2015 to nearly $1.3 trillion dollars.
WHO ARE THE TOP SPENDERS?
5. UNITED KINGDOM$41 BILLION
4. GERMANY $54 BILLION
3. JAPAN $61 BILLION
2. CHINA $225 BILLION
1. UNITED STATES $274 BILLION
TOTAL BUSINESS TRAVEL SPENDING - 2013
THERE IS A LOT TO MANAGE BEFORE EACH INTERNATIONAL TRIP:Traveler Needs: Company Needs:
Travel bookings, passports, visas, currency conversions, translations, mobile device data plans
International travel policies, communication and data, international bookings, visas, currency, taxes, VAT and risk management
Enterprises need solutions to simplify international travel and expenses. Yet in a VisionMobile study of 10,000 mobile app developers, only 16% claimed to target enterprises.
SKY’S THE LIMIT
DEVELOPERS THAT MEET THE DEMAND FOR ENTERPRISE APPS ARE:
2X AS LIKELY to earn $5K+ per app per month
NEARLY 3X AS LIKELYto earn $25K+
To learn more about taking off in the Concur App Center,visit developer.concur.com or @ConcurAPI.
The Concur Platform helps bring your app to global travelers—at home and abroad.
HAVE A GLOBAL TRAVEL OR EXPENSE SERVICE?
GBTA/CarlsonWagonlit Travel, 2015 Global Travel Price Outlook • GBTA Foundation Report, sponsored by Concur, July 2011 • GBTA, BTI Outlook 2014 • eMarketer
Skift, State of the Traveler Report 2014 • VisionMobile, State of the Developer Nation Q3 2014
SOURCES
150+ COUNTRIES30K BUSINESSES
= 1,000 ENTERPRISES
27M USERS
= 1,000,000 USERS
Projected for U.S. mobile travel sales from tablets and smartphones by 2018
$64.69 BILLIONof business travelers plan
to use peer-to-peer sharing in the next year
48%
purchase flights from a mobile device or tablet
49%
of airports are investing in mobile apps for flight information, navigation
and retail
95%
of travelers purchase hotel bookings from a mobile device
67%
Airbnb, IHG, Starwood, OpenTable, Table8, Yelp
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