India’s leading online travel agency MakeMyTrip has signed an agreement with Travelport’s distributor in the country, InterGlobe Technology Quotient (ITQ) for the use of Travelport’s Travel Commerce Platform.
Brands operated by the NASDAQ-listed company include MakeMyTrip, Goibibo and redBus, with the group serving more than 40 million active mobile app users each month. Under the new agreement MakeMyTrip will expand the use of Travelport technology from the Ibibo Group, which it acquired in January this year, to its other primary distribution channels.
“India is a market with enormous growth potential,” said Travelport CEO Gordon Wilson. He said Travelport, in partnership with ITQ, had grown its air bookings in the country by 14% in the first half of 2017, ahead of overall GDS air market growth of 11%. “Securing a partnership with the leading online travel agency in the market, with a high growth profile and tremendous track record, gives even further impetus to our plans in the country”.
Travelport has pioneered the inclusion of low cost carriers on its platform for shopping and booking, and went live with IndiGo in November 2016, which is now India’s largest passenger airline. Wilson said the fact that MakeMyTrip had chosen Travelport technology was “a testament to our investment in leading edge search, shopping and booking technology alongside the significantly differentiated travel content now available on our platform for both the domestic and outbound Indian traveller”.
