Discover what's new in Concur Travel for Q3 2025, including NDC fares enabled on Sabre and Amadeus, direct hotel content sources via Hotel Connector, enhanced car rental options with Travelport+, and mobile pre-booking approval features. Enjoy market rollout expansions across Southeast Asia and South Korea. Learn about recent automatic upgrades and the expanded new travel experience for customers in various regions with this Q3 release.
Beginning September 2025, the latest updates for Q3 2025 will be rolling out in the new Concur Travel to eligible customers.
What’s new in Concur Travel?
The Q3 2025 new Concur Travel release is ready for qualifying customers to experience, including:
- New air content with NDC fares enabled on Sabre (British Airways, Emirates) and Amadeus (Finnair, SAS)
- New hotel content on Hotel Connector: Integration of direct hotel content sources via Hotel Connector is now available for all customers with our partner Gekko, providing access to HCorpo and eHotel content
- New car rental content with Travelport+, and the return of a car shop results summary (car matrix) on all GDSs, enabling users to have a quick view over car rental vendors, prices, and car categories on the results screen
- Trip Change: The ability to change Travelport+ ticketed air bookings (depending on fare availability)
- Pre-booking approval with Concur Request for mobile: Users will be able to ask for pre-booking approvals on mobile, using Concur Request. Please note that additional features are planned for future releases
- Market rollout expansion
- Asia market enablement occurred with the August release (August 14), expanding the new Concur Travel offering to nine additional markets for Enterprise and SMB customers: SE Asia (POS: Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam), South Korea, Greater China (POS: Hong Kong, Taiwan)
- Automatic Upgrades
- As announced in September 2024, eligible customers have been automatically upgraded to the new Concur Travel.
- Professional Edition Sabre GDS and Standard Edition Sabre GDS upgrades were completed in April 2025
- Amadeus GDS upgrades were completed in July 2025
- Concur Travel will continue Automatic Upgrades, addressing remaining GDSs and markets (with Limitations and Exclusions still in effect) based on planned scheduled dates through the remainder of 2025
- All timelines and upgrade conditions will be sourced on Concur Community throughout the year
What’s in it for you?
The main outcomes customers experience with the Q3 2025 release of new Concur Travel are the following:
- We successfully expanded the new travel booking experience for our customers in Southeast Asia (POS: Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam), South Korea, and Greater China (POS: Hong Kong, Taiwan) and delivered some key features including a new car matrix.
- Expanding content:
- New NDC fares being enabled on Sabre (British Airways, Emirates) and Amadeus (Finnair, SAS)
- Customers with Travelport+ can now utilize the new platform for car bookings
- Integration of direct hotel content sources via Hotel Connector is now available for all customers with our partner Gekko, providing access to HCorpo and eHotel content
- Unparalleled flexibility and freedom: The new Concur Travel continues to offer a superior experience with one-way shopping experiences, availability on both web and mobile, and streamlined functionalities.
To learn more about these options, access product enhancements, support documentation, and find answers to many of your questions, please check the following resources:
- The new Concur Travel Resource Page for updates and new information about the new Concur Travel experience and how to prepare your end users for this change.
- The new Concur Travel Eligibility Documentation . The roll-out of the new Concur Travel, and your eligibility which depends on your settings and features.
- We have included the newest information about these Q3 2025 updates in our FAQs where you can learn more:
- Check out the Concur Travel Admin Toolkits: This collection of assets and resources (including email templates, guides and infographics) has been created to help your users with their change management while transitioning to the new Concur Travel
- Check out this video to get a preview of the re-platformed Concur Travel and its new travel booking experience.
- View the latest Release Notes , which contain details of the updates to Concur Travel.
- For more information about recent innovations for SAP Concur solutions, view the SAP Roadmap Explorer .
