Travelport signs deal with IBM
Travelport has forged a partnership with IBM to develop an integrated expense management and booking solution.
The technology will combine IBM’s Global Expense Reporting Solutions (GERS) with all Travelport GDS bookings.
Under the agreement, Travelport GDS will focus on delivering GDS content and Traversa, its online travel management booking solution.
IBM will provide expense management services via its GERS solution which allows employees to submit, approve, reimburse, and monitor travel and expenses and other business related expenses.
Travellers whose organisations use Travelport solutions, coupled with GERS, be able to have credit card billings automatically matched against travel reservation transactions.
This is designed to let them see more clearly what has been booked versus actual spend.
Jerome Moisan, general manager UK and Ireland, Travelport GDS. “This integrated solution will provide our mutual customers with innovative expense management capabilities, helping companies control travel and expense processing costs and manage, analyse and retrieve reports on business travel-related operations.
"Importantly, it will also facilitate travel policy compliance.”
By Bev Fearis
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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