ITL World, a leading travel management company in the Middle East, has signed an exclusive partnership deal with Corporate Travel Management (CTM), a global provider of innovative and cost-effective travel management solutions, for the GCC region. 

 

This partnership will help both companies expand their network and allow them to share global best practices and local expertise to their clients, offering only the best travel management solutions and services, said a statement.

 

Dr Siddeek Ahmed, chairman and managing director of ITL World (part of the Eram Group), said: "Over the last few years, ITL World has established itself as a leader in travel management in the GCC region and a trusted travel advisor to our corporate clients. We wanted to take our services to the next level, where we could cater to our clients' global travel management requirements seamlessly as a single fulfillment partner. 

 

“Hence, we decided to partner with CTM, one of the best and most reputed global travel management companies with a strong network in over 53 countries. This partnership will enable us to offer our local expertise in the GCC region to CTM's global clients."

 

The partnership will enable ITL World and CTM to expand their global reach and leverage each other's network and technology solutions to create a single fulfillment platform for their clients' global travel requirements. 

 

ITL World will benefit from CTM's proven business strategy, which combines personalised service-excellence with world-class client-facing technology solutions to deliver a return-on-investment to clients, while CTM will benefit from ITL World's regional knowledge, relationships and expertise.

 

Chris Thelen, CTM's chief executive officer, EMEA, said: "CTM has a strong customer focused philosophy. In recognising the growing global reach of our clients, we have identified an opportunity to expand our partner network in the Middle East. 

 

“The CTM Global Partner network is made up of a bespoke group of well established, in-country travel management partners which provide our clients with consistent, reliable and service-driven solutions for their multi-regional travel management needs." - TradeArabia News Service