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Staff The Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Power Station, as seen from above. Officials announced treated wastewater will be released into the ocean. Image: TEPCO/Wikimedia Commons In roughly two years, the Japanese government will begin releasing the contaminated Fukushima nuclear power station water into the Pacific Ocean. Officials made the announcement on Tuesday. Ever since the ground shook and the tsunami wave hit back in 2011, the containment ponds at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear powe...

Travelport+ launches to bring ’fundamental upgrade’ to digital travel retail Travelport has launched its next-generation Travelport+ platform to upgrade the digital offer for travel and travel retail. “Travel hasn’t kept up with the evolution of modern digital retail and today, the buying and selling of travel is more complex than it needs to be,” explained Travelport Chief Executive Officer Greg Webb. “Travelport+ truly changes the game in the speed of delivery of modern travel r...

Share Travelport has announced its answer to multi-source content distribution with the launch this week of Travelport Plus, which CEO Greg Webb calls a “next-gen travel retail platform". Webb said in an email to customers that the platform would offer “one agent desktop, one set of APIs, and one AI and data-driven distribution channel” and would enable "agencies to be better retailers, with cutting-edge tools and more automation [and] suppliers to merchandise, wi...

  Travelport+ is the centerpiece of Travelport’s new global strategy and is designed to accelerate industry innovation in multi-source content distribution, travel retailing and value generation.   Travelport+ is an extensive, next-generation platform that creates a simplified, capability-rich, marketplace for travel retailing. As travel distribution has evolved, retrofitting new types of distribution into existing platforms has led to increased complexity across the industry, slowing p...

Travel retail platform, Travelport, on Wednesday launched its next-generation platform, Travelport+, the centerpiece of its new global strategy, which is designed to accelerate industry innovation in multi-source content distribution, travel retailing and value generation. “We have made a multi-year investment to accelerate industry innovation in travel retailing,” said Greg Webb, Chief Executive Officer at Travelport. A multi-source platform, Travelport+ offers more dynamic, differenti...

| Its been more than two years in the making -- and something Travelport CEO Greg Webb has talked about repeatedly since joining the company in August 2019 -- and today Travelport is officially launching a new platform, Travelport+, as a single environment to replace its three legacy systems, Galileo, Apollo and Worldspan. As distribution and retailing have evolved and improved over the years, Webb said it has become inefficient and inadequate to retrofit old systems to serve the travel industr...

Travelport+ offers better retailing and merchandising capabilities which in turn leads to higher value trips. Through better efficiency, supported by Travelport’s leading data and insights, Travelport+ will unlock the potential for better offers and more content for all parts of the travel industry. Travelport+ is an extensive, next-generation platform that creates a simplified, capability-rich, marketplace for travel retailing. As travel distribution has evolved, retrofitting new types of di...

| Travelport on Wednesday launched Travelport+, a platform that it says includes a more simplified interface with richer content and capabilities. Travelport+ offers more dynamic and differentiated content from multiple sources and is faster and more frictionless than the companys previous platform, Travelport said. It includes NDC content, air-ticket exchange tools and a point-of-sale solution for travel agents. Travelport said the platforms "better retailing and merchandising capabilities" wi...

Global travel retail platform Travelport has unveiled a new visual identity created as part of the company’s first-ever end-to-end rebrand.

| As Travelport prepares to launch its next generation platform -- which will do away with its trifurcated back-end cores of Worldspan, Galileo and Apollo in favor of one system that provides multi-source content capabilities -- the company is unveiling a new visual identity that CEO Greg Webb says reflects the transformation that has taken place at the company since he became CEO in August 2019. "Weve had a monumental culture shift of the thinking and the mentality of both our employees and th...