Serko, a leader in online travel booking and expense management for business, has signed a new strategic partnership with HRS Global Hotel Solutions, extending Serko’s offering of global hotel content, while making Serko one of the single largest hotel metasearch platforms for corporate programmes.
HRS’ global inventory includes 350,000 corporate-relevant hotels, 210,000 of which are independent properties. The partnership enables Serko customers to book their own negotiated rates and HRS’ exclusive corporate discounted rates through both Serko Online and serko.travel platforms. Beyond access to unique hotel content, Serko clients can utilise HRS’ array of end-to-end service offerings to optimise their hotel programmes. HRS’ digital payment and integrated meetings management solutions are also available to Serko’s clients via this partnership.
The Serko relationship represents a milestone for HRS as it grows its presence in the region. Joint customers will gain from having easy access to global corporate hotel content through a single source, incorporating the exclusive HRS discounts, as well as Australian and New Zealand hotel content from The Lido Group, which partnered with HRS in 2016.
“Online bookings in corporate travel are becoming more important every year,” says Jason Long, vice president, Global Partnerships at HRS. “Today’s business traveller simply expects to find the right hotel for their trip directly in the booking tool of their company – and Serko is a natural fit to support corporates in Asia-Pacific and beyond. By enabling HRS’s unique value-added services through Serko, we can bring these benefits directly to corporate customers and their travellers.”
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