TravelSky and Travelport Ink Hotel Cooperation

Ground-breaking partnership boosts hotel content available to travel agents

BEIJING, March 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Travelport, the business services provider to the global travel industry, and TravelSky Technology Limited, the leading provider of information technology and commercial service for China's travel and tourism industry, today announce a ground-breaking partnership to dramatically boost hotel content available to travel agents in China and around the world.

Under the new agreement, TravelSky will receive access to Travelport's GDS and non-GDS hotel content, providing TravelSky's 7,000 ticketing agents with real-time pricing and availability from over 250,000 hotel properties with a combined total of more than 650,000 hotel offers worldwide.

Travelport-connected agents worldwide will also gain unprecedented access to TravelSky's hotel content in China via the Travelport Rooms and More™ booking engine. Tailored for travel agents, Travelport Rooms and More utilises meta-search technology to deliver unparalleled hotel content in a completely integrated booking platform. TravelSky content will further enhance the hotel choices that Travelport-connected agencies can offer their corporate and leisure customers when visiting China.

"This innovative collaboration between TravelSky and Travelport is the latest in a series of initiatives that the two companies have co-operated on from e-ticketing, the provision of international airline content to the joint development of IT solutions for airlines.  Expanding our relationship now to include hotels gives both TravelSky and Travelport customers an even wider array of informed travel choice," said Gordon Wilson, President and Chief Executive Officer, Travelport.

"This cooperation allows Travelport and TravelSky to each share and exchange their hotel content and channels, allowing our respective agency customers to obtain a wealth of international and domestic hotel content in a quick and efficient way. Moreover, the technical connectivity provides users with an enhanced online distribution experience," said Huang Yuan Chang, Executive Vice President for TravelSky.

This latest partnership builds on a 15 year relationship between the two companies, which most recently included a joint development agreement for advanced Passenger Service Systems technology for airlines.

About Travelport (www.travelport.com)

Travelport is a broad-based business services company and a leading provider of critical transaction processing solutions to companies operating in the global travel industry.

With a presence in over 170 countries, approximately 3,500 employees and 2011 net revenue of $2.0 billion, Travelport is comprised of the global distribution systems (GDS) business, which includes the Galileo and Worldspan brands and its Airline IT Solutions business.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Travelport is a privately owned company.

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About TravelSky Technology Limited

TravelSky Technology Limited, a unit of China TravelSky Holding Company, develops leading edge applications and services that enable electronic transactions and the management of travel-related information for companies across the travel industry. TravelSky operates passenger services systems for air carriers in China, and maintains the global distribution system (GDS) for China's travel agencies, processing more than 200 million passengers annually. Customers include 30 domestic airlines, approximately 200 regional and international airlines, 147 domestic airports and 7,000 ticket agents. Services reach into 300 cities in China, 80 international cities and a growing range of social networking sites. TravelSky is headquartered in Beijing and has more than 4000 employees.

For further information, please visit: www.travelsky.net