India’s largest corporate travel services provider and one of India’s leading online travel companies announced the addition of Airtel to its growing corporate customer base.

Airtel is India’s leading wireless operator, with over 456.6 million customers and over 21,000 employees (as of June 2018). This marquee customer win clearly demonstrates Yatra’s leadership position in the corporate travel segment in India and is a testament to its technological expertise and excellence of service provided to corporate customers.

With its PaaS (Platform as a Service) offering for large and medium enterprises and its self-booking platform for small and medium enterprises (SME), Yatra is addressing the entire corporate travel market in India. This market remains relatively underpenetrated in India, with GBTA forecasting double-digit growth for the segment over the next several years.

Catering to the corporate travel market since 2014, Yatra has over the years built an industry-leading solution set that covers every aspect of business travel with technology-enabled policy compliance, expense management solutions in partnership with Chrome River Technologies (a SaaS company), curated hotel options through its SMART Hotel initiative, foreign exchange services, visa & passport assistance, and more.

Commenting on the signing of Airtel as a customer, Dhruv Shringi, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, of Yatra Online, Inc., said, “Companies these days are looking for integrated technology solutions to provide an efficient and user-friendly experience to their employees while at the same time enforcing corporate policy when it comes to business travel. Yatra aims to offer just that: an enhanced, hassle-free, policy-compliant, and efficient platform for all business travel needs. Having one of India’s leading telecom operators, Airtel, on board as a corporate customer on our PaaS platform validates our strong ecosystem and, at the same time, gives us an opportunity to innovate and bring improved business travel booking experiences to leading corporates in India. Business travel across our client base has remained strong; we continue to deliver a high level of service to our existing clients and sign new ones at a healthy pace, all of which is a testament to our people, robust content, and Yatra’s technology and service innovation.”