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 stated Deem will function as an impartial unit underneath the Travelport umbrella. Deem will proceed to help a number of GDSs and the corporate’s operations will stay the identical.

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

Webb stated that Travelport will “reap the benefits of among the technical synergy that exists.” For example, Deem has used a 3rd get together for a few of its NDC connections; going ahead, it can use Travelport+’s NDC connections. Additionally, Deem will profit from Travelport’s world attain.

Webb referred to as Deem the “most trendy, most straightforward to make use of, only 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 stated greater than 80% of Travelport’s prospects are utilizing Travelport+, and he expects the remaining will likely be upgraded within the subsequent 18 to 24 months.

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