Travelport opens up their universal API for developers in India to build their own travel apps

Travelport, a leading travel commerce platform providing distribution, technology, payment and other software solutions for companies in the travel and tourism space, last week launched its Universal API to developers and customers in India. The company recently went for IPO on New York Stock Exchange on 25th September under the symbol 'TVPT'.

Travelport Universal API aggregates content from its travel commerce platform, including airfares, airline merchandising and ancillary content, hotels, car and rail content, and makes it available to developers creating their own travel applications through a single connection. The technology also enables developers to access and integrate multiple content sources by writing code to only one solution thereby allowing travel agencies to quickly and efficiently develop and differentiate their offering and enabling independent software developers to efficiently build their own travel applications.

Mr. Rabih Saab, Travelport’s President and Managing Director, Africa, Middle East and South Asia, said,

We are delighted to launch the Travelport Universal API in India and know that developers in this region see real value in this technology which helps them develop innovative, next generation new travel web sites, apps and other solutions quickly and efficiently.

Currently, Travelport has a presence in over 170 countries, approximately 3,600 employees and had a net revenue of $2.1 billion in the last financial year. Apart from giving access to multiple sources of content through one connection, their API also allows developers to access the necessary business logic to make booking travel efficient such as search, pricing and profiling functionality.

Mr. Anil Parashar, President and CEO, InterGlobe Technology Quotient Pvt. Ltd, the parent company of Travelport, added,

The launch of the Travelport Universal API in India has the potential to unlock innovative development in the region and is the only API of its kind that aggregates travel content from multiple sources and make it available through a single source.

Other players like Cleartrip, whose travel mobile app was also featured as part of the editor’s collection on Apple store, had launched their external API earlier this year to enable third party developers to use its inventory and develop apps on top of it. Developers can use these APIs to collate data and create various apps based on it. Mybustickets.in, an online bus-ticketing portal with more than 20,000 bus services in 20 states had launched its own API platform earlier. With many travel companies opening their APIs, this might be another opportunity to rein in the developer interest in this space.

For more information and resources about the Travelport universal API and to use their SDK., developers can log on to www.developer.travelport.com.