Travelport Signs Three Travel Agencies in Asia Pacific

Travelport has signed six new long-term agreements with travel agencies in Asia Pacific.

Three of the agreements are new wins: two in Greater China with EverExpress Travel Service and Kent Holidays Company Limited; and one in South Korea with Lotte Tour.

The company has also renewed its partnerships with Richmond International Travel & Tours and Hong Kong Borabora Trading in Greater China, as well as IACE Travel in Japan.

As part of the multi-year agreements, Travelport will provide the agencies with real-time access to a broad range of content from around 400 airlines, more than 300 global hotel brands, and over 37,000 car rental locations worldwide.

In addition, the companies will benefit from Travelport’s cutting-edge search, automation, shopping and booking technologies, while accessing valuable data, business logic and profiling functionality via a single platform.

Lotte Tour, a leading travel conglomerate in South Korea, will also be using Travelport’s Branded Fares Data File; while EverExpress Travel Service, a major player in Taichung, Taiwan, will be using Travelport’s Branded Fares and Ancillary Services.

Those merchandizing solutions will allow both agencies to differentiate content from the over 275 airlines globally signed up to Travelport Rich Content and Branding, displaying and selling branded fare families and ancillary products with rich visuals and text.

Richmond International Travel & Tours, one of the largest travel agencies in Taiwan, will also continue to participate in initiatives driven by Travelport involving the NDC standard. NDC is a travel industry-supported program launched by IATA that will enable the travel industry to transform the way air products are retailed to corporations, leisure and business travelers. See: Future of Airline Distribution and NDC - Interview with Yanik Hoyles, IATA.

Mark Meehan, Group Vice President and Managing Director for Asia Pacific at Travelport, said, “We are proud to be both welcoming new alliances to the Travelport network, as well as extending long-standing partnerships. These agreements are testament to the mutual confidence our partners share with us, in the crucial role that innovative distribution technology will play in the recovery of travel.”

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