Travelport, a leading
travel commerce platform providing distribution, technology, payment and other
solutions for the $7 trillion global travel and tourism industry, today
announced that it has invested in the travel technology company, Locomote,
acquiring a 49% share.
Locomote has developed
a platform to empower corporations in the seamless management of their travel,
authorisation and procurement processes, including corporate traveller profile
management, pre-trip approvals and duty of care capabilities.
The platform has been
designed ab initio for the mobile commerce world by Locomote’s team of
developers based in Melbourne, Australia. In turn, the Locomote platform
uses all of Travelport’s Universal Profile, Universal Record, travel policy
engine and Travelport’s state of the art uAPI (Universal Application
Programming Interface), from which it obtains real time access to Travelport’s
content, including low cost and network carriers, airline ancillary products,
car rental and all of the industry leading, broad range of hotel properties and
rates that Travelport now distributes.