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| It's 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 industry's needs. "The systems of the past were all built around the original requirements ... that were c...

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 distribution into existing platforms has led to increased complexity across the industry, slowing prog...

| 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 company's previous platform, Travelport said. It includes NDC content, air-ticket exchange tools and a point-of-sale solution for travel agents. Travelport said the platform's "better retailing and merchandising capabilities" will lead to higher-value bookings. New merchandising capabilities will enable retailers to cross-se...

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. "We've had a monumental culture shift of the thinking and the mentality of both our employees and the way that our partners and customers think about us. We've gotten ridiculously laser-focused on th...