Skift Take
Ever since selling Locomote, its previous corporate booking tool, Travelport was left with a gap. Now with new types of content coming soon to the U.S., courtesy of American Airlines and its New Distribution Capability push, Deem fills the void.
Travelport has regained its own corporate booking tool, after buying Deem from private car rental company Enterprise Holdings.
Terms of the transaction weren’t disclosed.
It helps bring the global tech company into line with competitors Amadeus and Sabre, which each have their own corporate booking tools, namely Cytric and GetThere.
Travelport used to have its own, Locomote, but sold it off in 2019.
New CEO Greg Webb must have had a change of heart, but he denies it’s a replacement.
"I look at it more as a fundamental change in how we’re addressing the needs of the corporate travel landscape,"