Microsoft and Travelport team to help airlines, travel industry suppliers, and travel agencies enrich and personalize the traveller experience.
hrough the collaboration, Microsoft and Travelport will explore the development of services designed to improve the traveller experience and to provide airlines, travel suppliers, and travel agencies, including travel management companies (TMCs) and online travel agents (OTAs), with new revenue and cost reduction opportunities, broader distribution reach, and improved customer satisfaction and loyalty.
Geoff Cairns, worldwide managing director, Hospitality, Microsoft said “In bringing together Microsoft’s rich, interactive technologies with Travelport’s deep marketplace of travel content and informed choice, we are creating a completely innovative solution for the travel industry. This will improve the traveller experience with a new level of personalization and change how suppliers, TMCs, and OTAs reach travellers,” .
In the travel industry, Microsoft is focused on helping airlines and service providers deliver a highly personalized travel experience across all channels and from all devices.
Travelport is the leader in Web-based travel e-commerce and provides the most relevant, cost-efficient technologies and services available to participants throughout the global travel distribution chain.
About Travelport:
Travelport is the leader in Web-based travel e-commerce, and a provider of the most relevant and cost-efficient technologies and services available to participants throughout the global travel distribution chain. Each day, we process a remarkable 1.1 billion travel transactions. Here’s a glimpse of how we do it:
4.3 billion airfares • 450 airlines • 83,000 hotel properties • 28,000 car rental locations • 7,500 tourist attractions • 145 countries • 35 languages
About Microsoft:
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.
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