CBP | July 02, 2020
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced that trusted traveler program enrollment centers will remain temporarily closed until at least August 10. Prior to Wednesday's postponement, Global Entry and other trusted traveler program enrollment centers were scheduled to reopen on Monday, July 6. The decision comes amid a recent rise in COVID-19 cases in several states.
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TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY
Travel, Travel agencies, Travel suppliers, Travel booking experience | June 21, 2021
The collaboration focuses on improving the Travelport+ platform by using AWS technology to increase processing capacity, speed up content delivery, and enhance customization capabilities in the booking experience.
The global platform that links travel agents and suppliers, Travelport, will be moved to AWS. In addition, Travelport will rely on AWS Managed Services to offer trusted operational expertise to improve platform efficiency and security.
“By utilizing the widest and deepest set of cloud capabilities and AWS’s proven global infrastructure, Travelport can improve the performance of its platform and continue to create innovative ways to simplify the trip booking experience,” said Adam Selipsky Incoming CEO of Amazon Web Services. We look forward to collaborating with Travelport to assist the travel industry continue to develop as people across the globe begin to return to travel.”
AWS’s established global infrastructure and security are designed to meet the needs of businesses that handle extremely sensitive data, such as financial institutions and travel companies.
“The travel sector has failed to keep up with the speed of change in digital retail,” said Greg Webb, CEO of Travelport. This historic collaboration is mainly intended to solve this issue. In addition, AWS’s retail history qualifies them to optimize digital retail platforms, simplify complicated environments, and allow game-changing innovation in the travel retailing sector. As a result, we will build a more straightforward, brighter, and better future for travel retailing with AWS as our chosen cloud partner.”
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Enterprise Holdings | June 04, 2021
Car rental giant Enterprise Holdings purchased Deem in early 2019. But before it could make good on grand plans for the travel technology company, the pandemic struck.
The idea for Enterprise was to keep San Francisco-based Deem at arm’s length — it builds agnostic platforms for corporate agencies that book all forms of travel, not just car rentals. But as Enterprise finally un-pauses, will Deem still be relevant in the new travel landscape where demand for new ways to took trips is skyrocketing?
Deem’s president, who has been working in corporate travel since 1994 and joined from Enterprise, said he has a strategy in place to make good on the promise of the acquisition.
“The pause was good for us,” said David Grace. “Trying to triple your staff in a short period of time can be a challenge. It could strain culture.”
It’s all part of the long game for Enterprise, as it’s a relationship that goes back to 2011, when it offered Deem’s platform to its corporate customers that didn’t have a managed travel program. As well as hiring its own cars, what about booking flights and hotels? Grace believes that ultimately this drives a lot of value to Enterprise. It then became a minority investor in 2016, and in January 2019 decided to buy it outright.
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