Guest post by Amadeus: Latest Innovation Combines the Best of the GUI and the GDS for Richer Searching and Booking Experience Heading to The PhoCusWright Conference? Be sure to check out Amadeus at the Travel Innovation Summit, where we’ll present the Amadeus One Flexible Air Search and Pricing Flow. One of the latest innovations in Amadeus Business Travel IT portfolio, Amadeus One Flexible Air... 

Travelport announced on May 18, 2010 that it has completed the acquisition of Singapore-based Sprice Pte. Ltd., which owns and operates hotel and travel search engine Sprice.com. This announcement has some interesting implications: It gives Galileo and Worldspan agents direct, integrated desktop access to global hotel metasearch (including reviews). This is a first for a GDS to my knowledge. It may... 

Max Hopper died Monday after a brief illness. His work and reputation were well known beyond the borders of the travel industry. But within travel circles he was highly respected. Max served with American Airlines and later as chairman of Sabre. He is credited by an article in CIO magazine as being “the pre-eminent modern-era CIO and founding father of IT-inspired competitive advantage.” The... 

The Singapore government’s decision to invest US$ 225 million in Travelport for a 7% stakes seems to be completely out of the blue and has taken travel industry analysts by surprise. The Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) has been a traditionally conservative portfolio management company managing more than a billion dollars owned and run by Singapore elite including the ruling family.... 

Proprietary Data Show Amadeus, Sabre, Travelport Processed More than 1.1 Billion Worldwide Transactions in 2008 SHERMAN, Connecticut, January 14 – Travel industry research authority PhoCusWright released the first-ever comprehensive study of the Global Distribution Systems (GDSs) that provide much of the electronic infrastructure behind airline, hotel, car rental, and other travel transactions....