New SAP Concur Partnership Signals More Value to Business Travelers and Travel Managers Through Concur TripLink

We are excited to announce Amtrak will join the Concur TripLink ecosystem of suppliers, providing corporate customers with the ability to have better visibility and travel management into Amtrak bookings, regardless of whether they occur in the Concur Travel booking tool or directly via the Amtrak website or mobile app. Concur® TripLink customers will have the added benefit in the future of connecting their Amtrak Guest Rewards account to their SAP Concur profile to earn points towards reward travel, upgrades and more.  

When Concur TripLink launched in 2013, the solution was designed to help travel managers gain a more complete view and better control over their managed travel programs. What started out with a small number of visionary and innovative companies using the solution with a growing set of suppliers has now evolved into an ecosystem used by over 14,000 companies and over 11 million business travelers. Concur TripLink brings bookings made outside of traditional channels into a managed travel program through the SAP Concur global network of connected suppliers and through TripIt Pro.

Amtrak covers a generous territory serving over 21,000 route miles in 46 states, the District of Columbia and three Canadian provinces where they operate over 300 trains each day to more than 500 destinations. For business travelers seeking an energy efficient mode of transportation, rail service provides an ideal option to lessen one’s carbon footprint.

As corporate customers lean into their sustainability initiatives and seek ways to optimize their travel and expense programs, rail service providers offer another content channel for business travelers to choose from. Amtrak continues to innovate their services while remaining committed to increasing energy efficiency and offsetting carbon emissions, which is key to corporate travel sustainability initiatives. They have several programs underway and goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions - learn more in their 2020 Amtrak Sustainability Report here.

Concur TripLink is designed to help ensure that companies can apply their policy to direct supplier spend, provide access to negotiated rates, and to incremental supplier content outside the GDS and aggregate travel data to inform managed travel programs.

Concur TripLink gives travelers that need to book directly with their preferred air, hotel, car, and rail providers and the ability to incorporate these bookings into their business spend and optimizes efficiencies when it comes to expense reports with automatic itinerary and e-receipts flowing into Concur® Travel and Concur® Expense.

Amtrak joins a network of recognized brands in the travel industry including American Airlines, Avis, Booking.com, British Airways, Delta Air Lines, Hertz, HRS, Hyatt, Intercontinental Hotel Group, Lufthansa, Marriott International, Sixt, Southwest Airlines, Trainline Europe and United Airlines.