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Imagine a Global Distribution Service that offers you greater reach and range of service... imagine the possibilities and potential. Imagine the value it can provide you as it enhances your business relationships — value you can share and pass on to your customers.
You won't have to just imagine it. Travelport®
has just added Worldspan® to its family to provide you
with greater reach and range of service, content, quality
and technology. The Travelport GDS division comprises the
Galileo® and Worldspan GDS; Shepherd Systems, an expert
in the field of providing business and marketing intelligence
to the travel industry; AiRes, our specialist hosting system
for the low cost carrier and Thor, a provider of distribution
and marketing services to travel-related companies. Travelport
is one of the world's largest and most geographically
diverse travel companies dedicated to offering:
Accuracy | Easy-to-use,
feature-rich online toolsets | More
travel content | Access to
the lowest fares
Soon, you will be able to access the best
of our combined companies' resources and relationships.
The addition of Worldspan to our popular Galileo solutions
will result in growth and efficiency from seamlessly-integrated
technology, knowledge and experience of people in the travel
community. We envision that aggregation of real-time data
from global travel market intelligence and travel trends
will encourage productivity where buyers and
sellers can communicate in ways they have never before.
Our mission is to be the world's leading provider of informed travel choice.
Existing services you currently use will continue to be fully supported — you won't have to change anything! Business and financial transactions will function as usual. But our combined resources will welcome a new era of global innovation and accessibility, capitalizing on operational and technology leadership and enhancing our online distribution segment.
Looking to the future, benefits will be delivered by integrating features that exist today in one GDS and making them available on the other GDS, providing users with enhanced functionality, additional content and/or improved operating efficiencies. All the initiatives form a roadmap of continuous improvement and have the objective of enhancing the customer experience.
Focus on customers first
Customer benefits include key drivers and major
initiatives of concentration by the Travelport, Galileo,
and Worldspan teams:
- Enhanced Air Shopping - enhanced shopping will access a more robust data set utilizing logic that constantly looks for the lowest fare options to provide traditional and online travel agents with the richest response of informed travel choice.
- Common Availability Cache - the implementation of an availability cache for our combined customers will have a significant and direct benefit for airlines. The common availability cache will deliver benefits to both customers and suppliers, leveraging Galileo and Worldspan technologies to provide competitive shopping results. By reducing the volume of search transactions, we can help reduce the cost of polling for airlines.
- Rapid Reprice - we plan the introduction of industry-leading exchange and refund automation to manage the complex and time-consuming process of airline refunds and exchanges for travel agents. By reducing the time to serve and errors on airline ticket pricing, we look to provide significant cost benefits and increased productivity to travel agents and airlines. Through increased process automation, airline, agent and GDS will benefit commercially from increased ticket sales and productivity gains.
- Local content - by expanding availability of Galileo's local content (non-GDS) and associated technologies (such as Galileo Leisure, Galileo Rail, Low Cost Carrier Hub and National Vendor Platforms), Worldspan traditional and online travel agents will benefit from greatly enhanced range of content. This will also significantly increase the distribution reach for the local content suppliers without investing in additional technology developments (significantly reducing their cost to distribute).
- Car and Hotel - combining existing technologies of both GDS's will improve functionality and provide richer content and greater choice for customers. Suppliers will benefit from reduced distribution costs by removing associated duplicate network links and by consolidating shared content in updating of source data.
Communication is key
As we look towards improvements and enhancements
for our GDS customers, we encourage your participation and
feedback to help us deliver the best. Please join our online
Webinar executive presentations to give us your candid input.
It is our sincere desire to earn your business every day and
we appreciate your contributions. |
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