Sydney, 02.11.2009
Travelport, one of the world’s leading global distribution system (GDS) providers operating both the Galileo and Worldspan platforms, has signed an exclusive, long term agreement with Stella Travel Services Group to once again provide GDS services to Harvey World Travel. Galileo has now been the GDS of choice for Harvey World Travel for nearly two decades.
Shelley Beasley, Travelport’s Managing Director, Pacific said: “We are very proud to continue our long term partnership with an agency group of Harvey World Travel’s calibre and look forward to working closely with them to meet their retail travel needs.”
“The latest enhancements made to our mid/back office solution, CrossCheck Travel Enterprise, coupled with Travelport being the only GDS in the region to provide a full service and support centre onshore, demonstrates our “customer first” approach and has helped us with many of our recent significant wins like this Harvey World Travel agreement,” Beasley added.
David Rivers, Harvey World Travel’s Managing Director commented: “Today’s announcement reaffirms the strong partnership that already exists between Travelport and Harvey World Travel and we are delighted to extend this into the next decade and beyond”.
The winning of this significant contract follows Travelport being voted by readers of TTG Asia as the “Best GDS Asia Pacific” as well as “Best GDS Australia” via an online travel industry readership poll conducted by eTravelBlackboard Australia. Travelport was also recently ranked number 11 in the 2009 InformationWeek 500 annual listing of the most innovative users of business technology in the United States.
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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; IT Services and Software, which hosts mission critical applications and provides business and data analysis solutions for major airlines. With 2008 revenues of US$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.
More information about Travelport GDS is available at www.travelport.com.
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