Avis now available through Galileo’s travel agency portal, Galileo Leisure
Unique driving tips mean travel agents can add real value to their customers
Galileo International, the leading global distribution services (GDS) company and subsidiary of Cendant Corporation (NYSE:CD), has today announced the addition of Avis Rent A Car to its Galileo Leisure portal, which is available in over 40 countries across Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Avis joins Alamo and Europcar as participants in Galileo Leisure, doubling the number of car pick-up locations and cities available. This is the latest addition to the unique travel agency portal that is delivered by Galileo in conjunction with gta. Over 3200 travel agents are already benefiting from the portal and this additional content will ensure agents have even more revenue opportunities direct to their desktop in an integrated way.
Galileo Leisure provides travel agents with the ability to book car hire in over 7000 locations, in 1880 cities, in 57 countries worldwide. The car content is delivered in a very simple interface with only 3 broad car categories, enabling agents to book quickly and easily. Another key element of the car offering is the automatic selection of the lowest available rate from multiple suppliers, ensuring the agent can be confident they are offering the best price to their customer.
In addition to the simplicity of the booking process are the unique driving tips that gta produce for all countries where rental is offered. These tips include driving regulations (speed limits, seat belts, parking); details on general road conditions and tolls advice; documentation required; fuel type for each car; even information on fines and penalties. This information provides travel agents with the opportunity to add real value to the booking process for their customers.
The additional car content on Galileo Leisure adds to the existing wealth of content already available to agents on the Galileo Leisure Portal which includes over 72,000 hotels, 3,000 apartments & villas, 3,500 transfers, 4,300 sightseeing tours (including 1,300 private sightseeing options) and 300 travel guides.
“We are delighted to be able to offer even more rich content to our travel agency customers,” commented Mr. Enrico Bisello, Director of Product Management, Asia, Cendant TDS. “The response to Galileo Leisure has been extremely positive in the marketplace and by adding Avis to our car offering we are continuing to offer unrivalled leisure content.”
Galileo Leisure, including the driving tips, is available in 22 languages.
About GTA
Gullivers Travel Associates (gta) is one of the world’s leading wholesalers of ground travel products and services. gta uses industry-leading online technology to supply tour operators and travel agents with a ‘one-stop-shop’ of content comprising over 21,000 directly contracted hotels and apartments and more than 3 million ground travel items. gta’s vast inventory is available in 27 languages and includes more than 70,000 rooms every night, airport transfers, sightseeing tours and even concert tickets and restaurant reservations. The company was founded in 1975 and employs over 2,300 staff in 31 offices around the world. gta has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cendant Travel Distribution Services since April 2005.
About Galileo International
Galileo International ( http://www.galileo.com ) is a global technology leader. Its core business is providing electronic global distribution services for the travel industry through its computerized reservation systems, leading-edge products and innovative, Internet-based solutions. Galileo is a value-added distributor of travel inventory dedicated to supporting its travel supplier, agency and corporate customers and, through them, expanding traveller choice. Part of Cendant’s Travel Distribution Services Group, Galileo is headquartered in Parsippany, NJ, and has offices worldwide.
About Cendant Travel Distribution Services
Cendant Corporation’s (NYSE: CD) Travel Distribution Services Division, is one of the world’s largest and most geographically diverse collections of travel brands and distribution businesses. The division, employing over 8,000 people in approximately 40 countries, operating in 130 countries, includes: a leading (GDS) global distribution system (Galileo), serving more than 50,000 travel agencies and over 60,000 hotels; hotel distribution and services businesses (Neat Group?, TRUST and WizCom?); leading online travel agencies (Asia-hotel.com, CheapTickets?, ebookers.com?, HotelClub.com, Lodging.com, NeedaHotel.com, Orbitz?, RatesToGo.com, and The Away Network); an airline market intelligence company (Shepherd Systems); an international travel technology and software company (Travelwire); a leading international provider of long-haul air travel and travel product consolidator (Travel 2?/Travel 4?); online global corporate travel management solutions (Orbitz for Business? and Travelport?); and a leading wholesaler and global online provider of hotels, destination services, travel packages and group tours (Gullivers Travel Associates, OctopusTravel.com? and Travel Bound, Inc.).
For further information, please contact:
Mr George Harb
Director of Marketing, Asia
Cendant Travel Distribution Services
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