Travelport acquires Deem company journey platform

Travelport has acquired company journey administration platform Deem.

The acquisition, for which phrases weren’t disclosed, was introduced Friday. Deem was beforehand owned by Enterprise Holdings. 

Travelport CEO Greg Webb mentioned Deem will function as an unbiased unit beneath the Travelport umbrella. Deem will proceed to help a number of GDSs and the corporate’s operations will stay the identical.

On the identical time, Deem can be built-in with the Travelport+ retail journey platform for journey advisors. The timeline for that’s round 120 days.

Webb mentioned that Travelport will “make the most of among the technical synergy that exists.” As an example, Deem has used a 3rd get together for a few of its NDC connections; going ahead, it’s going to use Travelport+’s NDC connections. Additionally, Deem will profit from Travelport’s world attain.

Webb known as Deem the “most trendy, most straightforward to make use of, simplest company on-line reserving software.”

Travelport+ launched in April 2021. It’s a platform changing the corporate’s three legacy GDSs: Galileo, Apollo and Worldspan. 

Webb mentioned greater than 80% of Travelport’s prospects are utilizing Travelport+, and he expects the remainder can be upgraded within the subsequent 18 to 24 months.

In keeping with Webb, quite a few Travelport prospects are already Deem customers, however the firm will look to increase the variety of companies utilizing each.