International Shortcuts: Business Apps for Global Travelers
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- 1. 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. MOBILETRAVELSALES 2015: 6.2% TO$310.2BILLION 2015: 6% VOLUMEINCREASE 7.9% SPENDINGGROWTH 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 EXPENSE MANAGEMENT: 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. INTERNATIONALSHORTCUTSBUSINESS APPS FOR GLOBAL TRAVELERS FREQUENTFLIERS Around the world, business travel spending will increase by 8.6% in 2015 to nearly $1.3 trillion dollars. WHO ARE THE TOP SPENDERS? 5.UNITEDKINGDOM $41 BILLION 4.GERMANY $54 BILLION 3.JAPAN $61 BILLION 2.CHINA $225 BILLION 1.UNITEDSTATES $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’STHELIMIT DEVELOPERS THAT MEET THE DEMAND FOR ENTERPRISE APPS ARE: 2X AS LIKELY to earn $5K+ per app per month NEARLY 3X AS LIKELY to 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 BILLION of 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 HOTEL & DINING: $ $ $ $ $ $ $