Travelport: Travel Agencies Across the World Sign Up for ‘Trip Assist’ Mobile App

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Travelport, a leading travel commerce platform, on Tuesday announced that it has now signed up over fifty agency customers across five continents to its Trip Assist white-label mobile app.

Trip Assist is a branded mobile app designed specifically for travel agencies to help strengthen traveler engagement, support travel program compliance and reduce service costs by delivering an improved travel experience.

Among those most recently signed for Trip Assist are leading travel agencies such as CT Travel (UK), Ezfly (Taiwan), Cisalpina Tours (Italy) and Top Viajes (Mexico).

“The strong demand for Trip Assist by many of the world’s smartest agencies demonstrates their continuing desire to engage with travelers at all stages of their travel journey,” Stephen Shurrock, Travelport’s Chief Commercial Officer, said.

According to Shurrock, the app satisfies the customers’ expectation to have all the information they need to manage their travel experience in a single, easy to use app tailor-made for a device they’re already carrying and using throughout their trip.

The app offers rich functionality for Apple and Android devices including smart itinerary management, day-of-travel assistance, click-to-call agent support and flexible messaging capabilities including rich push and Facebook Messenger.

“Trip Assist is a great example of how our platform provides choice, performance, experience and intelligence to our customers and their travelers through unique content and technology,” he added.

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According to Travelport’s 2018 global survey of 16,000 travelers, mobile engagement is crucial to both leisure (67%) and business (69%) travelers. They view centralized itinerary management tools, such as Trip Assist, as critical to providing them with a seamless experience from pre-trip to booking and on through until they arrive home.

In addition to Trip Assist, Travelport’s mobile products also include Fusion, a branded mobile engagement solution built specifically for airlines and fully bespoke mobile solutions for leading travel brands including BCD Travel, easyJet, Singapore Airlines and many more.

Travelport has won over 30 awards since 2014 for its travel apps, including a platinum award for Best Mobile App Design at Best Mobile App awards in 2018 for the BCD Travel app and Best Transaction Experience at the User Experience UK awards for the easyJet app in 2017.