Altour and Mesh Payments are partnering to provide a combined travel and expense management offering, the companies announced.

The integrated offering combines Altour's travel management services with Mesh's travel and expense platform for customers. "The combination of high-quality travel services company, with a lot of experience and a lot of know-how, with the world-class technology that we bring, that combines travel and expense in an open architecture with a lot of AI capabilities, that's something a lot of companies will appreciate," Mesh CEO Oded Zehavi said.

With that "open architecture," customers can determine the "best stack" to meet their needs between Altour's and Mesh's booking capabilities with connections to Mesh's expense tool, which Altour chief commercial officer Mike Boult said was "a modern, easy-to-use, multinational solution that clients are keen to pursue." Altour clients also can tap Mesh's capabilities around virtual payments and reimbursements, Boult said.

"Now, Altour can come with one unified expense and payment infrastructure that can meet all customer needs, from employee payments to hotels and flights payments and the on-trip expenses," Zehavi said. "All of that is fully integrated into expense, so you don't need to invest any additional effort."

Zehavi said the integration with Altour and Mesh is "already done" with some customers already onboarded, and the announcement is "the first phase in accelerating the go-to market activities for the joint offering." The agreement is not exclusive on either side, with Mesh continuing to maintain its relationships with other TMCs, and Altour customers still having the option to choose their preferred platform, he added.

Midsized global companies are the "sweet spot" for the combined offering, but "we are chasing bigger customers," Zehavi said. The first customers have been in the U.S. market, but the Mesh and Altour plan to expand targets globally.