Tag: Travelport
IBM, Travelport Ready Blockchain Service For Commission Processing As Smaller Firms Also Make Progress
Travelport has agreements with “major” hotel and travel management company partners to pilot a hotel commission tracking and collection system using blockchain technology from IBM….
Former Sabre Exec Greg Webb To Run Travelport As CEO
Travelport on August 1 will have a new chief executive officer as former Sabre vice chairman Greg Webb succeeds Gordon Wilson. Webb has been a…
IBM Gets Patent On Travel Planning
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last week issued a patent to IBM for “intelligent travel planning.” The patented process covers receiving a user’s trip…
WhereTo Wants To Be The Large Enterprise’s Business Travel Startup
A newish company with a not-so-new travel manager, Snap Inc. may invite new corporate booking tool WhereTo to bid on its business this summer. Just…
Explainer: Passive Segments
From a travel management perspective, the cleanest and easiest way to book travel is through a content channel fed by a global distribution system. Many…
Travelport Plans Q4 2019 Rollout For Agent Desktop With ‘Inbuilt’ NDC Connectivity
Travelport intends to start delivering its new Smartpoint agent point of sale system, with complete NDC integration, in the fourth quarter. Travelport now is testing…
Freshly Funded AirGateway Brings Its NDC Pipes To Life Through Agent Interface
If you build it, they will come … if you also build something else that makes more sense to them. This is the lesson learned…
