TravelPerk, the business travel management platform, has partnered with SilverRail, the rail commerce platform, to enable Amtrak (USA) rail content to be sold to TravelPerk customers.

SilverRail, according to the announcement, provides companies like TravelPerk with a simple and cost-effective rail booking, ticketing and after-sales platform. Its API and agent tools are designed to significantly reduce the complexity, operational cost and technical effort in offering global rail content.

TravelPerk’s Value of Business Travel Report, June 2024, showed corporate travelers are increasingly looking to travel more via sustainable modes of transportation, with train bookings gaining traction over flight tickets in recent years. While flights remain the primary mode of transportation, the company’s booking data revealed the share of train bookings versus flights on the TravelPerk platform has increased to 33% in 2023 from 17% in 2019 — with flights representing 67% in 2023.

Kristina Geier, TravelPerk’s vice president, supplier partnerships, said partnering with SilverRail “enables us to deliver an excellent rail booking experience for our customers starting with this launch with Amtrak in the US.”
Brett Ring, vice president – commercial at SilverRail, said the company “is seeing a significant modal shift from planes to trains given corporate net zero targets; and SilverRail’s platform makes it easy for any travel retailer to offer global rail content via one API.”