Latest version of the agency desktop now incorporates leading-edge air merchandising solution.
LANGLEY, UK. – Travelport, a leading Travel Commerce Platform providing distribution, technology, payment and other solutions for the $7 trillion global travel and tourism industry, has launched a new version of Travelport Smartpoint, its industry-leading agency desktop technology. The latest version, which has been enhanced with numerous new features, is now available to Travelport Worldspan-connected travel agencies worldwide with immediate effect and will be extended to users of Travelport Galileo and Travelport Apollo next month.
Since its launch, Travelport Smartpoint has been redefining how travel agencies sell to their customers. Specifically, it has enabled travel consultants to sell a wider range of air, hotel and car content, reduce training time, improve sales productivity, earn new revenues and provide higher levels of service to their customers.
Significantly, the latest version of Smartpoint being launched today integrates Travelport’s game-changing Rich Content and Branding air merchandising solution which gives travel agents unique access to rich visual imagery and more detailed product information from participating airlines, matching the content and brand experience on the airline’s own website and making the comparison and selling of airline’s products and services easier and more effective. Travelport has more than 70 carriers signed up to Travelport’s Rich Content and Branding solution ahead of today’s launch and the number of carriers wanting to participate continues to grow on a weekly basis.
Other key benefits of the latest Travelport Smartpoint version include:
- The ability to shop and book full service and low cost airlines side by side within the existing agent workflow;
- Enhanced features including new graphical seat maps and added extras such as bags and lounge access enabling travel agencies to sell more airline products and services and earn new revenues;
- Improved navigation, graphical mapping and interactive screens to make selling additional services, such as hotel rooms and car hire, easier and quicker.
The latest version of the desktop also continues to offer a virtual account number (VAN) payment solution provided by eNett, in which Travelport owns a majority stake, which offers agencies an additional safe, secure and fully integrated payment solution directly in their desktop environment.
Jason Clarke, Travelport’s Managing Director, Global Sales, says: “We’ve spent a lot of time listening to our customers and assessing their unmet needs when it comes to making and paying for air, hotel and car bookings and we’re confident that the enhancements we have introduced in this latest version of Travelport Smartpoint will make booking travel even more efficient. We’ve had excellent feedback from both travel agency and airline customers on our Smartpoint technology and their insights have continued to help us improve our offering.”
“This latest version marks a significant step forward, particularly in terms of the additional and very sophisticated airline merchandising technology that’s now been fully integrated. It very much forms part of our ongoing commitment to provide our agency customers worldwide with the most relevant travel content, and the very best tools in the industry.”
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She has many years of both academic and industrial experience within the travel industry. She has written/edited numerous articles in various tourism magazines.
