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Articles tagged “travelport”

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.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 5 years ago

Travelport Sees India as Its Path to Reverse Market Share Losses

Online Travel

Travel Agents Get a Dose of the Sharing Economy Through Sabre Deal With Booking

This move signals Sabre's eagerness to remain a powerhouse for travel agents in a changing landscape where alternative lodging, driven by the popularity of Airbnb, takes off. Come 2019, Sabre aims to be more of a one-stop shop for agents. Some agents applaud the move; others couldn't care less.

Paul Biasco, Skift | 6 years ago

Travel Agents Get a Dose of the Sharing Economy Through Sabre Deal With Booking

Travel Technology

Video: Why Travelport Is Betting Big on Payments and Mobile Booking

Travelport has worked hard over the last few years to develop new airline merchandising and travel payments solutions on a global level. Next comes the challenge of driving wider adoption in the marketplace.

Andrew Sheivachman, Skift | 6 years ago

Video: Why Travelport Is Betting Big on Payments and Mobile Booking

Business Travel

Why Travelport’s CEO Isn’t Worried About Brexit

In an interview, Travelport CEO Gordon Wilson strikes an optimistic tone for his company and for the negotiations at large over the fate of Britain's relationship with the European Union. We'll see if his confidence will be borne out by events.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 6 years ago

Why Travelport’s CEO Isn’t Worried About Brexit

Business Travel

Interview: Travelport Looks to Solve Hotel Distribution Problems With Blockchain

Some think blockchain can help decentralize travel distribution, which has historically been dominated by a small handful of players. These entrenched companies, however, see blockchain as a technology that can help fix some of the inefficiencies in the travel distribution marketplace without fully disrupting the status quo.

Andrew Sheivachman, Skift | 6 years ago

Interview: Travelport Looks to Solve Hotel Distribution Problems With Blockchain

Travel Technology

Global Distribution Systems Retool for the Next Digital Revolution

The global distribution systems are each pushing forward in their own unique way. By investing like technology companies in flexible distribution and payment technologies, they hope to provide a better value proposition to travel partners that are keen to cut out the middleman. Decades of bad blood between the two, however, still linger over the conversation.

Andrew Sheivachman, Skift | 6 years ago

Global Distribution Systems Retool for the Next Digital Revolution

Online Travel

Skift Tech Forum Preview: Travelport’s CEO on a New Era for Airline Merchandising

CEO Gordon Wilson of Travelport says his technology company is making it easier for airlines to display on travel agency "shelves" their content in the way they want. If true, that could significantly help airlines maximize their revenue.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 6 years ago

Skift Tech Forum Preview: Travelport’s CEO on a New Era for Airline Merchandising

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.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 6 years ago

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.

Andrew Sheivachman, Skift | 6 years ago

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.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 6 years ago

Travelport Faces Dramatic Changes if Activist Investor Gets His Way