Sudanese travel agencies connect to a greater choice of travel content

01:18 AM July, 20 2017

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Langley, UK, 19 July: Travelport (NYSE: TVPT), a leading Travel Commerce Platform, today announced a new agreement with Euroafrica Services Ltd., in the Republic of Sudan which will give over 500 local agents access to a global choice of airlines, hotels, train and car travel.

Travelport’s content includes fares and ancillaries from 400 airlines, including leading network and low cost carriers. It provides all the necessary tools for flight and accommodation bookings, including reservations, fare quotes and ticketing. Connected agents can search beyond rate and availability and respond quickly to customers’ personalized needs so as to provide the rich and integrated travel experience that the connected traveller of today demands.

Liban Warsame, CEO of Euroafrica Services Ltd., commented: “We look forward to introducing this innovative way of connecting a world of travel choice to the Sudanese agents’ community to grow their online and offline travel business. Travelport’s unrivalled content will help agents to drive their performance and allow them to offer customers a broader range of content more efficiently.”

Rabih Saab, President and Managing Director, EMEA and South Asia, Travelport, added: “We are delighted to be working with Euroafrica Services Ltd. and I am confident our partnership will help drive Sudanese travel agents’ businesses even further. Travelport’s presence in Sudan means wider choice of travel content to travellers and greater chance to satisfy those who are looking for unique and personalised journeys.”



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About Euroafrica Services Ltd

Established in July 2016, EuroAfrica Services Limited is a subsidiary of EuroAfrica Travel UK, one of the leading travel agents in the United Kingdom, with its Head Office within its group of companies in London’s East End. The group operates in the United Kingdom, Pakistan, Kenya and Somalia, earning an enviable reputation in the travel trade. . EuroAfrica Services has developed a close working relationship with Travelport.



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About Travelport (www.travelport.com)

Travelport is a Travel Commerce Platform providing distribution, technology, payment, mobile and other solutions for the global travel and tourism industry. With a presence in approximately 180 countries, and approximately 4,000 employees, our 2016 net revenue was over $2.3 billion.

Travelport is comprised of:

A Travel Commerce Platform through which it facilitates travel commerce by connecting the world’s leading travel providers with online and offline travel buyers in a proprietary business-to-business (B2B) travel marketplace. Travelport has a leadership position in airline merchandising, hotel content and rate distribution, mobile travel commerce and a pioneering B2B payment solution that addresses the needs of travel intermediaries to efficiently and securely settle travel transactions.
Technology Services through which it provides critical IT services to airlines, such as shopping, ticketing, departure control and other solutions, enabling them to focus on their core business competencies and reduce costs.
Travelport is headquartered in Langley, U.K. The Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and trades under the symbol “TVPT”.

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