Travelport outlines tech Integration for Galileo, Worldspan

April 01, 2008 | Online Travel

Travelport's new agent point-of-sale system Traversa will supersede Galileo's FocalPoint/ViewPoint and Worldspan's Go. The company is also considering the building of a non-GDS profile system which is shared with the GDS and other tools.

Travelport GDS will discard Worldspan’s Trip Manager corporate booking tool as it integrates technology owned by the merged Galileo and Worldspan companies. The combined firm will market Galileo’s emerging Traversa corporate booking tool, as well as its ViewTrip electronic itinerary solution. Worldspan’s tools for airline pricing and refunds and exchanges will be retained, and Travelport will build new point-of-sale technology for the agent and possibly traveler profiles, Travelport GDS president and CEO Gordon Wilson told management.travel.

Traversa is “in deployment with IBM and is slated to go into deployment with another two large corporations,” Wilson said, noting that another tool, Travelport Classic, will be retired along with Trip Manager by “early next year.”

Wilson said criticism from Galileo’s agency users about delays in Traversa’s deployment was “fair.”

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