Travel Leaders Renews Agreement with Travelport
Atlanta, GA,
27.01.2010
Travelport, one of the world’s leading providers of global distribution systems (GDS), has been renewed as the preferred GDS provider to Travel Leaders Franchise Group, part of Travel Leaders Group and one of America’s top ten travel sellers. With over 1,000 Travel Leaders and Results! Travel franchisees and more than $5.2 billion in franchised sales annually, Travel Leaders Franchise Group is the leading travel franchisor in North America. As part of the new five-year agreement, Travelport, operator of the Galileo and Worldspan systems, will continue providing GDS services to Travel Leaders and Results! Travel agencies through 2015.
“With a solid majority of our Travel Leaders and Results! Travel franchisees already using Travelport, a trusted GDS partner for many years, our continued relationship with them remains integral to the ongoing, long-term success of our network," said Roger Block, president, Travel Leaders Franchise Group. “This new agreement is a reflection of the confidence we have in Travelport’s content, technology and dedicated support, which we believe lead the industry and are best suited for our further growth.”
"Travelport is pleased to be the primary technology provider and preferred GDS partner for Travel Leaders Franchise Group and their franchisees, which together comprise one of the biggest players in the U.S. travel industry,” said Scott Hyden, vice president, U.S. Sales, Travelport GDS. “We are especially delighted to deliver the solutions that Travel Leaders needs to grow and succeed.“
The Travelport deal also provides Travel Leaders with industry leading e-Pricing™, which provides fast access to the most competitive fares available, and the broadest choices, both critical to a travel agency’s ability to meet the demands of today’s travelers for value, speed and price. Powering the world’s major online travel retailers and leading travel providers, e-Pricing is capable of searching millions of fares and hundreds of thousands of itinerary options to find the lowest available fares and ensures airlines, consumers and travel agents get the information and choice they expect. The dynamic e-Pricing engine provides the most accurate fare searches and yields more comprehensive itinerary results from a growing universe of Travelport participating airlines.
Travel Leaders will increase efficiency through the use of Travelport Rapid Reprice™, an automated ticket repricing product that automatically recalculates the price of a ticket in a fraction of the time it takes to recalculate manually. Rapid Reprice automatically integrates fare and rule categories for voluntary changes, net fares, private fares and fare-by-rule from ATPCO filed fares. A significant decrease in the instances of airline debit memos can be expected due to the product’s superior data integrity and repricing accuracy.
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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. Travelport is comprised of the global distribution system (GDS) business that includes the Worldspan and Galileo brands; GTA, a leading global, multi-channel provider of hotel and ground services; Airline IT Solutions, which hosts mission critical applications and provides business and data analysis solutions for major airlines. With 2008 revenues of $2.5 billion, Travelport operates in 160 countries and has approximately 5,300 employees.
Travelport also owns approximately 48% of Orbitz Worldwide (NYSE: OWW), a leading global online travel company. Travelport is a private company owned by The Blackstone Group, One Equity Partners, Technology Crossover Ventures and Travelport management.
For more information, please visit www.travelport.com.
About Travel Leaders
Travel Leaders is transforming travel with a name that boldly embodies our commitment to our vacation and business travel clients via a progressive approach toward each unique travel experience. As one of America’s top ten-ranked travel companies, Travel Leaders has assisted millions of travelers through our strong roots – the former Carlson Wagonlit Travel Associates, TraveLeaders and Tzell Travel Group joined together in 2008 to form one of the industry’s fastest-growing and robust networks of travel agents. Travel Leaders Franchise Group can trace its beginnings to 1984 as the franchise system “Ask Mr. Foster Travel,” which itself was North America’s first travel agency chain established in 1888.
Media Contact:
Jill Brenner
Director of Corporate Communications
+1 973 939 1325
Jill.Brenner@travelport.com