Sunday, April 06, 2014

Travelport launches app to monetise ancillary revs of airlines

New Delhi: Aiming to help airlines better manage services and increase ancillary revenues, distribution services and e-commerce provider Travelport has launched its application Smartpoint in India.
The application, which has 110,000 users globally, is at present being tested with 100 travel agents in India.
"The app will help in increasing options for airlines and travel agents to monetise profits by offering consumers more services from a single point like hotels, transport, travel and medical insurance, WiFi etc," InterGlobe Technology Quotient (ITQ) President and CEO Anil Parashar told PTI.
ITQ, a unit of aviation, hospitality and travel related services firm InterGlobe Enterprises, is official distributor of Travelport Galileo in India and Sri Lanka and Travelport Worldspan, through Calleo Distribution Technologies in five markets across the Asia Pacific region.
Smartpoint provides a single global access point to travel agents to check for flight bookings as well as other services connected with air travel, thus aiding airlines boost their ancillary revenues, he added.
06/04/14 PTI/Business Standard
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