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Webjet and Travelport Announce New Long-term Technology Partnership

2019-07-11 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Travelport

Travelport has been awarded a new long-term technology contract by Australia and New Zealand’s top online travel agency, Webjet.

Tags: air bookings, booking technology, GDS, IATA, NDC, New Distribution Capability, tech partners, travel technology, Travelport, Webjet

Finnair Deploys Travelport’s Rich Content Platform

2017-01-16 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Finnair Airbus

Last week Finnair became the 200th airline to deploy Travelport’s rich content and branding merchandising solution. As part of a full content deal in between the airline and Travelport the travel tech firm will now connect 180 countries with real-time access to Finnair fares.

Tags: airline bookings, airlines, Finnair, rich content, Travelport

Travelport and Alitalia Extend Content Agreement

2014-09-12 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Travelport logo

Travelport announced today having a renewal of its multi-year content agreement with with Alitalia, Italy’s leading airline. This reneweal enables some 67,000 Travelport-connected agents worldwide to list all of Alitalia’s fares and inventory, including web fares, and ancillary offerings.

Tags: airlines, Alitalia, content, travel content, Travelport

Travelport Adds e-Travel Technologies

2014-09-06 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Travelport logo

Travelport and e-Travel Technologies have just penned an agreement to bolster the former’s travel risk management services with duty of care solutions for the corporate travel market. e-Travel’s portfolio include; travel alerts, travel advisories, and travel tracker databases. These will now be made available globally to Travelport-connected travel agents.

Tags: e-Travel Technologies, Scott Hyden, travel companies, travel liability, travel tech, Travelport

Travelport Releases Q2 Results and Growth

2014-08-04 by Phil Butler

Gordon Wilson of Travelport

Leading travel tech and distribution company, Travelport has just released their Q2 2014 results showing the first half of the year as strong for the company.

Tags: Gordon Wilson, Locomote, Orbitz Worldwide, Q2, travel tech, Travelport, Travelport earnings

OTA CEOs and Who Has Your Back: Part I

2011-12-05 by Phil Butler

William Shatner for Priceline.com

What do you want from information providers? How about service providers that offer information you need to know to make decisions? Where online travel is concerned, there has been a lot of shakeup of late over these questions. Can you trust reviews? Which OTAs can you trust? We decided to micro-analyze some questions and answers already provided by none other than USA Today, and the leading bosses of your online travel agencies.

Tags: Chicago Tribune, Expedia, Huffington Post, Jeffery Boyd, Orbitz, Priceline.com, PRWeb, Stephen Kaufer, Travelocity, Travelport, TripAdvisor, UPI, William Shatner

Travelport Chief Envisions Better Cooperation With Airlines

2011-12-01 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Global distribution systems

Amidst all the kerfuffle regarding the failed attempt by American Airlines to change the way that global distribution systems operate, one of the key players in the squabble, Travelport CEO Gordon Wilson, has predicted a much more harmonious relationship between airlines and GDS companies in the future.

Tags: American Airlines, GDS companies, global distribution systems, Gordon Wilson, ITA software, PhoCusWright conference, Travel Technology Update, Travelport, Travelport Universal Desktop

Orbitz Future Hinges on Travelport Debt

2011-09-23 by Phil Butler

Travelport, will it make 41?

In news from Chicago, the state court of appeals there upheld an earlier decision forcing American Airlines (AMR) to allow Orbitz to sell tickets for its flights. Orbritz, the US’s second largest online ticket seller, has for months been embroiled in dispute with AMR.

Tags: airlines, American Airlines, AMR case, AMR stock, ExpenseAnywhere, Orbitz, Orbitz for Business, Orbitz stock, OTA, stocks, tickets, travel, Travelport

Orbitz May Finally Be A Best Buy

2011-09-19 by Phil Butler

Orbitz logo

Orbitz announcements of deals and personnel changes, like most such corporate news fodder, would not ordinarly be a sign of anything big in the offing. However, with a closing price of $2.40 on Friday, and the inherent value underneath, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure this stock is on the way up.

Tags: best stocks, opening prices, Orbitz, stock prices, stocks, travel, travel deals, travel sites, travel startups, travel stocks, Travelport

GBTA Announces “Travel Value Chain” Panel

2011-06-30 by Phil Butler

Travelport's Gordon Wilson

Today, the Global Business Travel Association (GTBA) announced a new Travel Value Chain panel comprised of noted industry CEO’s at major travel providers.

Tags: BMO Financial Group, business conferece, business tourism, business travel, Carlson Hotels, commercial travel, Dara Khosrowshahi, Expedia, Global Business Travel Association, Gordon Wilson, travel business, travel execs, travel news, travel strategy online travel, Travelport, Trip Davis

Travelport Moves Into Russian Online Travel Market

2011-06-14 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Russia's enormous potential for online travel is something Travelport want to take advantage of

Global travel industry business services provide Travelport has signed a collaboration deal with the growing Russian Internet Travel Services Association (ITSA) in order to provide more support to the Russian online tourist industry, it’s been revealed. ITSA, which was only founded last year, is the brainchild of Russian travel industry expert Vadim Zelensky, who said […]

Tags: Global travel industry, ITSA, online tourist industry, online travel agencies, online travel russia, Russian Internet Travel Services Association, Russian travel industry, travel technology, Travelport, Vadim Zelensky

Travelport Hits Back at American Airlines Lawsuit

2011-05-26 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Travelport has filed for the American Airlines lawsuit against it to be rejected

The Travelport flight and fare information portal has asked the US Federal Court in Fort Worth to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit filed against it by American Airlines, claiming that its purpose is solely to gain leverage over them in contract negotiations. The lawsuit is just the latest action in a growing confrontation between global distribution […]

Tags: American Airlines, American airlines lawsuit, flight and fare information, GDS providers, global distribution systems, Orbitz Worldwide Inc., Travelport, Travelport GDS, Travelport lawsuit

Tourism for Tomorrow Rewards Sustainable Tourism

2011-05-24 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Alpine Pearls

At the Tourism for Tomorrow Awards in Las Vegas, three Three destinations were selected as the world’s best when it comes to sustainable tourism. These highly coveted tourism awards represent some of this year’s most visible and important, and especially kicking off one of the world’s largest travel trade conferences.

Tags: agro travel, Alpine Pearls, enviro travel, environmental travel, green travel, Guludo Beach Lodge, Intrepid Travel, Singita Pamushana, sustainability, sustainable travel, Tourism for Tomorrow, travel awards, travel news, travel winners, Travelport

Travelport and Poland’s Blue Sky Team Up

2011-05-18 by Phil Butler

Malbork Castle

In news from Poland’s Blue Sky Travel, the company and Travelport have just penned a deal for supporting Blue Sky’s offerings with Travelport’s global flight inventory.

Tags: Blue Sky Travel, booking, Eastern Europe travel, Euro 2012, Galileo, Jerzy Ruszkowski, online travel, Poland bookings, Poland hotels, Poland travel, Poland travel plans, travel news, travel plans, Travelport, Worldspan

American Airline’s Sues Orbitz and Travelport, BTC Responds

2011-04-14 by Aleksandr Shatskih

American Airlines lawsuit

In response to an American Airlines antitrust lawsuit against Travelport and Orbitz, the Business Travel Coalition (BTC) released a statement saying the travel programs are simply pawns in the airline’s game, and the lawsuit is a symptom of a larger problem. American filed suit against Orbitz and Travelport for discouraging travelers from using the airline’s […]

Tags: American Airlines, BTC, Business Travel Coalition, direct booking pipeline, lawsuit, online travel agencies, Orbitz, Travelport, U.S. Department of Transportation

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