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Articles tagged “gdss”

Online Travel

European Commission Is Probing Travel Distribution Systems for Anticompetitive Practices

Over the years, the big global distribution systems have been a major barrier to innovation by airlines and travel startups, in particular. The European Commission now intends to take a serious look at this dynamic.

European Commission Is Probing Travel Distribution Systems for Anticompetitive Practices

Online Travel

Travelport Sees India as Its Path to Reverse Market Share Losses

Gordon Wilson, the CEO of Travelport, said in an interview that he sees India as one of the drivers of its long-term growth. That's plausible, but not assured. Private equity should take the company private to shield it from quarterly earnings pressure, and allow it to invest properly to make the most of its varied opportunities.

Travelport Sees India as Its Path to Reverse Market Share Losses

Online Travel

Amadeus Hospitality Is a Tough Sell Despite Progress With InterContinental Hotels Group

Amadeus hopes to clear some of the underbrush that's grown up in hotel technology. If it succeeds, it will likely reshape the costs and systems used for selling rooms industrywide.

Amadeus Hospitality Is a Tough Sell Despite Progress With InterContinental Hotels Group

Online Travel

Travelport Lost Lucrative Flight Centre Contract to Distribution Rivals

No word on yet on what activist hedge fund investor Paul Singer of Elliott Management might try to pressure Travelport do this year. But research analysts expect that, at the very least, the travel technology company will be pressed to spin off its fast-growing eNett payments business.

Travelport Lost Lucrative Flight Centre Contract to Distribution Rivals

Business Travel

Sabre Searches for Deal as the Air France-KLM Distribution Surcharge Looms

Wasn't the whole point of these surcharges to prevent the global distribution systems from taking a cut of that juicy ancillary money that is now flowing in? One has to wonder what the terms of Air France-KLM's deal with Amadeus and Travelport really are. For now, it looks like the global distribution systems that took the new distribution capability seriously are reaping the rewards.

Business Travel

Travelport Faces Dramatic Changes if Activist Investor Gets His Way

The last thing travel tech giant Travelport needs is to be sold to private equity. It's still digging out from all the debt Blackstone saddled it with. Our best guess is that it will be forced to partly sell eNett, a payments business.

Travelport Faces Dramatic Changes if Activist Investor Gets His Way

Airlines

British Airways Wants to Get Smarter About Selling Airline Tickets

Airlines have long hoped for a technological development that would enable them to take back control from travel's middlemen. The New Distribution Capability was supposed to be that solution, but change of this magnitude takes time. At the moment, the British Airways parent seems more than happy to eat up the cost.

British Airways Wants to Get Smarter About Selling Airline Tickets

Online Travel

9 Big Challenges Facing Amadeus This Year

Amadeus' track record of profitable growth has been music to the ears of investors. But some airline and hotel executives claim to hear discordant notes in the giant technology vendor's forecasts.

9 Big Challenges Facing Amadeus This Year

Business Travel

Travelport Is Diversifying With Strong Growth in Payments Tech

How is Travelport competing against much bigger companies like Sabre and Amadeus? By creating technology solutions its clients actually want to use while expanding in the world's fastest-growing regions for travel.

Travelport Is Diversifying With Strong Growth in Payments Tech

Media and PR

Best Travel News Stories of 2017

Our favorites of the year were stories that you could find nowhere else. Each featured hours — or months — of phone calls or in-person interviews, and provided insights about an important development or trend. Each of these talented journalists, you could find nowhere else, either.

Best Travel News Stories of 2017