Yatra Online Limited has entered into a strategic partnership with Kanoo Travel, the travel management arm of the Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo Group, marking the company’s first major expansion into the Middle East enterprise travel market.
Under the agreement, Kanoo Travel will implement Yatra’s enterprise travel and expense management platform across its operations, providing businesses with a unified solution for travel bookings, policy compliance, expense management, workflow automation, and analytics.
As part of the partnership, Yatra will establish a dedicated Kanoo Travel Global Operations Centre that will provide round-the-clock multilingual operational support. The centre will work closely with Kanoo Travel’s customer-facing teams across the Middle East to deliver technology-enabled enterprise travel services.
The collaboration represents a significant step in Yatra’s international growth strategy as it expands beyond the Indian market into one of the world’s fastest-growing business travel regions.
Yatra’s enterprise travel and expense management platform, developed over the past decade, currently serves more than 1,300 large and mid-sized enterprises in India. Through its partnership with Kanoo Travel, the company aims to extend these capabilities to corporate customers across the Middle East while creating a foundation for broader global expansion.
By combining Kanoo Travel’s regional expertise with Yatra’s technology-driven platform, the partnership seeks to enhance customer experience, improve operational efficiency, and deliver a scalable enterprise travel management solution for businesses across the region.
Commenting on the partnership, Siddhartha Gupta, Chief Executive Officer, Yatra Online Limited, said, “Our partnership with Kanoo Travel marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter in Yatra’s growth journey. Over the past decade, we have built one of India’s leading enterprise travel and expense management platforms by solving the complex needs of large organizations at scale. Together with Kanoo Travel’s exceptional regional presence and customer relationships, we have an opportunity to redefine how enterprise travel is delivered across the Middle East. More importantly, this partnership demonstrates that world-class enterprise technology built in India can successfully serve customers on a global stage, and we see this as the beginning of a much larger international growth opportunity for Yatra.”
Mohamed Al Kooheji, Group Chief Executive Officer, Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo Group, added, “Our customers are increasingly looking for technology that simplifies travel, improves policy compliance, and delivers greater visibility into travel spend, without compromising the high-touch service they expect from Kanoo Travel. Yatra’s enterprise platform, combined with its deep operational expertise, enables us to offer an integrated solution that strengthens our value proposition to corporate customers across the Middle East. We believe this partnership positions us well to meet the evolving needs of enterprises while supporting our long-term growth ambitions.”
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