Yatra Online Limited has entered into a strategic partnership with Kanoo Travel, a division of the Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo Group, to offer enterprise travel and expense management solutions across the Middle East. The collaboration marks Yatra's first significant international expansion and strengthens its presence in one of the world's fastest-growing business travel markets.
As part of the partnership, Kanoo Travel will deploy Yatra's integrated enterprise travel and expense management platform, enabling businesses to manage travel bookings, policy compliance, expense management, automation and analytics through a single platform.
Yatra will also establish a Kanoo Travel Global Operations Centre to provide 24x7 multilingual operational support, working alongside Kanoo Travel's customer-facing teams across the Middle East. The companies said the integrated technology platform and operations hub are designed to improve customer experience, operational efficiency and scalability.
The partnership forms part of Yatra's long-term international growth strategy. The company's enterprise travel and expense management platform, developed over more than a decade, currently serves over 1,300 large and mid-sized enterprises across India. Through the collaboration, Yatra aims to extend these capabilities to enterprise customers in the Middle East while laying the groundwork for further global expansion.
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, said, "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."
