LANGLEY, UK, 2016-Jun-02 — /Travel PR News/ — Travelport (NYSE: TVPT), a leading travel commerce platform recently hosted its Travelport Technology Day, ‘Learn with Travelport’. The travel-agency focussed seminars in Moscow and St. Petersburg, gathered 50 of Russia’s key travel industry players, including leading travel agencies and travel management companies. The seminars, combined with interactive training, provided attendees with the latest updates on Travelport’s products and gave them an opportunity to reach out to Travelport’s experts for advice on how to make the most of their capabilities.
During the events, Travelport’s team showcased its user friendly and intuitive point of sale technology, Travelport Smartpoint, which enables travel agents to effectively search, sell and book travel. It gives travel agents access to Travelport’s unrivalled content including fares from approximately 400 airlines including their branded fares and ancillaries. Travelport Smartpoint features product descriptions and graphics, comparison shopping and maps, which significantly improves agent efficiency and provides them with increased opportunities for upselling. Travelport’s team also presented an overview of Travelport Rich Content and Branding which enables airlines to effectively display their products on travel agencies screens in the same way they would appear on their own websites. In addition, attendees learnt about local solutions such as Travelport Best Buy Plus that monitors bookings and compares fares, providing travel agents with the best available air fare for its customers.
The recent seminars were additionally enhanced by the opportunity to engage with motivational speaker, Sergey Semenoff from Business Training and Consulting Group who gave a lecture on time management.
Maria Yakushkina, Travelport’s Country Manager in Russia added: “It is truly rewarding to demonstrate our latest technology to the Russian travel trade and to ensure that they have the tools they need to run successful businesses. By embracing innovation and technology, customers can stay competitive in a challenging environment. We’ve received overwhelming positive feedback from attendees who appreciated the seminar’s interactive format and we believe that such events can significantly help streamline customer’s operations.”
About Travelport
Travelport is a Travel Commerce Platform providing distribution, technology, payment, mobile and other solutions for the global travel and tourism industry. With a presence in approximately 180 countries, over 3,700 employees, and an additional 1,200 employees at IGT Solutions Private Ltd who provide us with application development services, our 2015 net revenue was over $2.2 billion.
Travelport is comprised of:
- A Travel Commerce Platform through which it facilitates travel commerce by connecting the world’s leading travel providers with online and offline travel buyers in a proprietary business-to-business (B2B) travel marketplace. Travelport has a leadership position in airline merchandising, hotel content and rate distribution, mobile travel commerce and a pioneering B2B payment solution that addresses the needs of travel intermediaries to efficiently and securely settle travel transactions.
- Technology Services through which it provides critical IT services to airlines, such as shopping, ticketing, departure control and other solutions, enabling them to focus on their core business competencies and reduce costs.
Travelport is headquartered in Langley, U.K. The Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and trades under the symbol “TVPT”.
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Mark Hamilton
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Monika Bulmer
Corporate Communications Executive, EMEA
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Email: monika.bulmer@travelport.com