Travelport Launches Updated Website Featuring an Innovative Media Center
New York, NY,
09.09.2008
Travelport, one of the world's largest travel conglomerates, has re-launched its company website. Accessible via the URL www.travelport.com, the site is re-designed to be more user-friendly and easier to navigate and to provide in-depth information on the travel and tourism industry. At the forefront of the updated website is a new interactive media center.
The new media center will offer convenient travel research tools, including access to extensive data generated by Travelport GDS, a global distribution system business that includes the Worldspan and Galileo brands. Travelport GDS processes more than 20,000 transactions a second and performs over 46 million travel-related searches per day. The data that Travelport generates through the operation of its travel reservation business is a unique resource for insights into the travel industry. Business Intelligence by Travelport, its data analysis unit, continually analyzes the collected data to identify travel trends, and provide insight into economic and emerging market activity.
“We are excited about the breadth and depth of information we are able to provide on the re-launched website, particularly with the interactive media center,” said Jon Hall, Chief Marketing Officer of Travelport. “We believe that Travelport’s media center offers unique and unrivaled materials which provide views into the travel sector as well as emerging trends in the economy,”
Current highlights on the re-launched website include three travel insight stories:
- The first examines travel trends between the US and China. While the overall medium to long-term trend for travel between China and the United States remains positive, the most recent three-month period (through May 2008) has been negatively affected by declining travel volumes, primarily for travel booked in the US.
- Economic expansion in Asia and Russia is the focus of the second story, which looks at how this expansion has played a role in robust growth in air travel between the two regions, having grown in excess of 20 percent in the past year.
- The last insight story highlights growing economic ties between China and the Middle East, which are significantly boosting demand for travel between the two regions. In the 12-month period through May 2008, travel was up almost 30 percent between the two regions, compared to the year before.
Other elements of the media center include an executive blog and case studies examining thoughts and ideas from Travelport’s senior leadership team regarding the travel and tourism sector. These new features are additions to materials previously available on the website, including corporate and brand press releases, whitepapers and executive bios.
About Travelport
Travelport is one of the world's largest travel conglomerates offering broad based business services to companies operating in the global travel industry. The company is comprised of Travelport GDS, a global distribution system business that includes the Worldspan and Galileo brands; GTA, a group travel and wholesale hotel business; Business Intelligence by Travelport, a data analysis business; and IT Services and Software, which hosts mission critical applications and provides business solutions for major airlines.
Travelport also owns approximately 48% of Orbitz Worldwide (NYSE: OWW), a leading global online travel company. With on-going annual revenues of approximately $2.6 billion, Travelport operates in 145 countries and has approximately 6,000 employees.
Travelport is a private company owned by The Blackstone Group, One Equity Partners, Technology Crossover Ventures and Travelport management.
Media Contact:
Kelli Segal
Corporate Communications Director, EMEA and APAC
(212) 915-9155
Kelli.Segal@travelport.com