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Travelport takes majority share of Locomote, shuffles management pack

By Sean O'Neil | December 1, 2015

Travelport has taken a 55% share of expense and travel management service Locomote. In August 2014 it had bought a 49% stake in the Australian startup, but it now has majority ownership. Terms of t Read More

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Amadeus adds airport trains, Razoom hits 1,500, TigerAir Taiwan debuts on Travelport, and more...

By PhocusWire | November 26, 2015

This is a roundup for product news and announcements for travel DISTRIBUTION in tourism and hospitality for November 2015. Thursday 26 November 2015: Amadeus adds airport trains The UK's Hea Read More

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Travelport claims it's the world's fourth-largest hotel distributor

By Sean O'Neil | November 13, 2015

Ask a Travelport executive about how the UK-based technology company stands out from its rivals, and you'll hear a lot about non-air content. Nearly a quarter of Travelport's revenue comes distribu Read More

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How airline retailing impacts agencies and TMCs

By Sean O'Neil | November 12, 2015

For the past 15-plus years or so, airlines and agencies have been butting heads. Yet technology is now letting agencies sell the high-margin products airlines want to sell the most. Might that tech Read More

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Travelport’s MTT talks mobile app strategy for TMCs and itself

By Sean O'Neil | November 11, 2015

Mobile Travel Technologies (MTT), a mobile platform provider to airlines, hotels, and travel management companies (TMCs), has been on a growth tear. Today MTT has about 170 employees, with a plan Read More

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Lufthansa traffic up in first clean month since GDS surcharge (but rivals up more)

By Kevin May | November 11, 2015

October was expected to be a crucial month in the ongoing saga of Lufthansa's introduction of a surcharge for all bookings made via Global Distribution Systems. The airline released figures this we Read More

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Travelport takes quarter distribution revenues from non-air, sees Lufthansa decline

By Kevin May | November 2, 2015

Travelport claims it is seeing shifts away from bookings for Lufthansa flights since the introduction of the carrier's surcharge. President and CEO Gordon Wilson says the larger switch in volumes h Read More

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WAYN heads for hotels, Sabre picked by Shijie99, Blue Air debuts GDS with Amadeus, and more...

By PhocusWire | October 30, 2015

This is a roundup for product news and announcements for travel DISTRIBUTION in tourism and hospitality for October 2015. Friday 30 October 2015: WAYN launches hotel search engine The travel Read More

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Lufthansa admits overseas headwinds from GDS levy

By Kevin May | October 29, 2015

Lufthansa Group has conceded that the introduction of its controversial surcharge on GDS-issued tickets has had an impact on overseas bookings. In a call with financial analysts following the publi Read More

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Snapshot on European independent hotel bookings [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Kevin May | October 28, 2015

The difference between the European and US markets is vast when it comes to hotel ownership and how it affects bookings. Primarily this revolves around the fact that independents represent a massiv Read More

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Alibaba flat-bats questions about Qunar and Ctrip share swap

By Martin Cowen | October 28, 2015

Alibaba's Q2s contain some eye-watering bigger picture e-commerce numbers but its response to a question about this week's Qunar/Ctrip share swap added little to the sum of human knowledge. Earlier Read More

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Qatar working on NDC plan B

By Martin Cowen | October 20, 2015

Qatar Airways, one of the first airlines to embrace NDC, is working on a "plan B" according to its CEO Akbar Al-Baker. As the keynote speaker at IATA's WPS 2015, Al-Baker went off message when he w Read More

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Travelport shuffles pack as MTT boss steps down three months after acquisition

By Kevin May | October 16, 2015

Mobile Travel Technologies has an interim CEO after founder and current boss Gerry Samuels decided to leave the business. Samuels sold the Dublin, Ireland-based company to Travelport in July this y Read More

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Only way for Lufthansa surcharge to succeed is if other airlines follow dangerous path

By Kevin May | October 8, 2015

Lufthansa may be "standing firm" on its controversial surcharge and denying any significant impact so far, but the wagons of the move's opponents are circling. At the CAPA World Aviation Summit in Read More

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Travelport acquires CETS and TraviAustria

By Kevin May | October 5, 2015

CETS, a tour operator booking platform in Central Europe, has been bought by Travelport as part of a wider deal to acquire its local distributor in Austria. Terms of the agreement to acquire Vienna Read More

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