Travelport has signed a new content agreement with hotel group Accor, which will provide Travelport’s 67,000 globally connected travel agency customers continued access to Accor’s availability and room rates, as well as new and enhanced content.

Travelport has announced Virgin America has signed up for the Travelport Rich Content & Branding solution. Virgin America becomes the latest airline to commit to the software, a key component of the Travelport Travel Commerce Platform, which allows airlines to market and retail their products more effectively by controlling how their product is visually presented and described to travel agents.

Travelport and Vistara, India’s newest full service carrier and a joint venture between Singapore Airlines and Tata Sons Limited, today jointly announce a new distribution and merchandising agreement which will see Vistara distribute all of its fares and offering through Travelport’s Travel Commerce Platform.

Travelport has added new features its desktop technology Travelport Smartpoint, with enhanced hotel and car content. including pictures, comparisons and maps.

Hotelzon is planning to expand into France and Poland with the appointment of local Sales Manager, Abdallah Ahamada who will be based in Paris and Radoslaw Mazur who will be based in Warsaw.

Travelport and Carlson Wagonlit Travel, one of the world’s leading travel management companies, have announced an expanded multi-year, global agreement. The agreement builds upon the two companies’ already long standing relationship and creates a long-term commercial framework to lead and define the working partnership between the two organisations through to the next decade.