The partnership combines Kanoo Travel’s regional leadership with Yatra’s enterprise travel and expense management technology, marking Yatra’s first significant international expansion and establishing a platform for long-term growth in one of the world’s fastest-growing business travel markets

Kanoo Travel, a division of the Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo Group and one of the MENA region’s largest travel management companies, announced a strategic partnership with Yatra Online Limited (BSE: 543992, NSE: YATRA), India’s leading corporate travel and expense management company, to transform enterprise travel across the region. The partnership combines Kanoo Travel’s regional leadership with Yatra’s enterprise travel and expense management platform, marking Yatra’s first significant international expansion and establishing a scalable platform for long-term growth in one of the world’s fastest-growing business travel markets.
The partnership also represents a significant milestone in Kanoo Travel’s continued digital transformation strategy while supporting Yatra’s long-term international growth ambitions. Built and refined over more than a decade, Yatra’s enterprise travel and expense management platform today supports the travel and expense management needs of over 1,300 large and mid-sized enterprises across India. Through this strategic partnership, Kanoo Travel will introduce these proven capabilities to customers across the Middle East, while enabling Yatra to extend its enterprise platform beyond India and establish a foundation for further international expansion.
Under the partnership, Kanoo Travel will deploy Yatra’s integrated enterprise travel and expense management platform, enabling a seamless experience across travel booking, policy management, expense management, automation, and analytics.
Complementing the technology platform, Yatra will establish a Kanoo Travel Global Operations Centre to provide 24×7 multilingual operational support, working alongside Kanoo Travel’s customer-facing teams across the Middle East. Together, the integrated platform and dedicated operations hub will deliver a scalable, technology-enabled service model designed to enhance customer experience, operational efficiency, and future growth.
“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,” said Mohamed Abdulelah Al Kooheji, Group Chief Executive Officer, Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo Group.
“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,” said Siddhartha Gupta, Chief Executive Officer, Yatra Online Limited.

Abu Dhabi : A networking session/dinner of the Akhuwat Foundation was held on 04 June 2023 at a local hotel under the patronage of the Embassy of Pakistan in Abu Dhabi. The event was attended by a large number of Pakistani professionals including doctors, professors, businessmen and social workers. Dr. Muhammad Amjad Saqib, Founder/Chairman of Akhuwat Foundation along with his team graced the event as the the Chief Guest.
Akhuwat Foundation is a non-profit welfare organization working for wellbeing of the needy people with an objective to alleviate poverty in the society by empowering the socially and economically marginalized segments through interest-free microfinance and education. It strives to develop and sustain a social system based on mutual support where each individual lives a life full of respect and dignity. Presently around 700 centers of Akhuwat Foundation are engaged across Pakistan round the clock in service of the people. Besides Pakistan, the foundation has its roots in different countries around the world including the United States of America, United Kingdom, Sweden and Canada. The foundation is also jointly working in collaboration with its counterparts in Uganda, Nigeria and Afghanistan.
Speaking on the occasion, the founding Chairman of Akhuwat Foundation Dr. Muhammad Amjad Saqib briefed the audience about his journey towards establishment of the foundation. He underscored that how Akhuwat started its operation by giving very minimal interest-free loans to few needy people, the number of which is presently in millions. He highlighted the Akhuwat Foundation’s vast network operating inside Pakistan and abroad as well, rendering its services in various fields to the deprived people and families including microfinance banking, education, health, agriculture and infrastructure.
Ambassador Faisal Niaz Tirmizi in his remarks thanked the Founder and Chairman of Akhuwat Foundation and his team for gracing the event with their attendance. He lauded the hard work of Dr. Saqib spanned over two decades; and the beneficial services of Akhuwat Foundation in bringing the underprivileged segments of the society as equal to the well-to-do people. He said that the foundation has been striving hard to make the needy people stand on their own feet. He congratulated Dr. Saqib on the successes of his foundation. Ambassador Tirmizi appealed the audience to come forward and extend their valuable support to the Akhuwat Foundation its worthy cause.