Travel Counsellors signs new agreement with Travelport GDS

Travel Counsellors, a leading home-based travel company operating across seven countries, has signed a new multi-year agreement with Travelport GDS, one of the world’s largest global distribution system providers, for its Galileo GDS. Last year Travel Counsellors increased its turnover by 16% from £210 million to £245 million. Patrick Lukan, general manager for Travelport GDS,…

Travel Counsellors, a leading home-based travel company operating across seven countries, has signed a new multi-year agreement with Travelport GDS, one of the world’s largest global distribution system providers, for its Galileo GDS.


Last year Travel Counsellors increased its turnover by 16% from £210 million to £245 million.


Patrick Lukan, general manager for Travelport GDS, UK & Ireland, commented: “Travel Counsellors is a long standing and loyal customer and we’re confident that this new agreement will help them continue to develop their business, both in the UK as well as globally. 


“We are committed to providing both Travel Counsellors and its individual Counsellors with the best content and high-tech GDS solutions along with our UK-based service and support.” 


Travel Counsellors has developed award winning technology to allow its 1,000 full time agents to run their own businesses from home, supported by over 200 staff at the company’s UK headquarters and overseas offices.


Steve Byrne, managing director at Travel Counsellors, added: “We are delighted to be working with the Travelport GDS team and look forward to building our relationship with them over the coming months and years.  We are constantly working on ways to further support our agents and help them grow their businesses.


“Our Phenix dynamic packaging system enables them to tailor-make itineraries and improve their margin, and we are now delighted to be able to provide our global network of Travel Counsellors with Travelport’s innovative e-Pricing product for finding the lowest fares which will soon be available to Galileo users.”


Travel Counsellors recently reported significant growth in its corporate travel business, with turnover for this sector of the business increasing from £10 million in 2004 to over £40 million in 2008 and significant growth expected in 2009.



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* Travelport