Travel Tool is designed for booking global rail travel.July 19, 2007 -
Go!® Rail Booking Tool offers web-like travel buying tools to simplify and accelerate rail buying process. Shopping, booking, and commission-generating tool sits on travel agent's desktop for quick access. Travel agents can shop and book products of North American, European, and Japanese rail service providers through graphical displays by using point-and-click navigation, mouse-over functionality, pull-down menus, interactive calendars, and route mapping tool.
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Original Press release
Worldspan, L.P.
300 Galleria Parkway
Atlanta,, GA, 30339
USA
Interactive Rail Booking Tool Arrives on Worldspan Go!® Desktop for Travel Agents
ATLANTA, June 28 /- Global travel technology provider Worldspan, L.P. has introduced an interactive rail booking tool that makes train bookings as simple for travel agents as arranging travel online. The new Worldspan Go! Rail Booking Tool eliminates traditional GDS entries, and replaces them with intuitive, Web-like travel buying tools to simplify and accelerate the rail buying experience. The new shopping, booking and commission-generating tool sits on the travel agent's desktop for quick and easy access. It is available free of charge to Worldspan agents globally.
Travel agents are able to shop and book the products of leading North American, European and Japanese rail service providers through graphical displays, using point-and-click navigation, mouse-over functionality, pull- down menus, interactive calendars and a route mapping tool-all intuitive features that fully integrate with the Worldspan GDS. The new Go! Rail Booking Tool is Worldspan's first interactive, rail-specific product, paving the way to a single platform for booking global rail content.
"As the latest addition to our suite of interactive desktop tools for travel agents, the new Go! Rail Booking Tool introduces many first-time, timesaving capabilities. It is all about simplicity, speed and increased revenues for our customers," said Sue Powers, Worldspan chief information officer and senior vice president - Worldwide Product Solutions. "The tool boosts productivity for agents with extensive experience in booking rail, and it is extremely beneficial to novice agents who are unfamiliar with GDS formats."
Worldspan travel agents in the United Sates have access to the full product portfolios of Amtrak in North America, and Eurostar and AccesRail in Europe. The full product portfolios of Amtrak and AccesRail are available to Canadian travel agents. Point-to-point and rail pass services are bookable. Agents have access to Amtrak rail passes in the United States, a broad selection of European rail passes, such as BritRail and Eurail, and Japan Rail East passes. UK, German and Swedish Rail services, and London Airport Express services to/from Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted Airports are also available. The Go! Rail Booking Tool taps into Worldspan's global travel database for real-time availability, rates, rules, terms and conditions, and booking and ticketing capabilities.
In addition to automating GDS formats, graphical displays minimize the need to manually compare pricing and availability options, and agents also use easy-to-search rail station lists that eliminate the need to know specific and often-confusing train station codes. Agents can view routing maps, and also view and print fare rules, terms and conditions. Tickets are easily issued on air ticket printers using standard airline ticket stock. Rail segments can be added to PNRs containing other travel segments, including air, car rentals and hotels, and when applicable, rail segments can be priced with air segments and issued on one ticket. All rail bookings integrate fully with travel agency back-office and accounting systems.
To access the tool, travel agents simply click on the Script Index on the Worldspan Go! menu bar, select the Book tab and choose the Go! Rail Booking Tool. The new tool replaces the Amtrak booking script previously used by agents through Worldspan Go!
The Worldspan Go! Rail Booking Tool sits alongside other new interactive desktop tools for booking low fares, car rentals and hotels. The Go! e-Pricing Shopping Tool invokes the acclaimed suite of Worldspan e-Pricing® technologies, enabling agents to conduct distinct types of low-fare searches from a single launch point. The Go! Car Booking Tool and Go! Hotel Booking tool offer agents rich search criteria, valuable comparison shopping features, vehicle and hotel images to assist in the travel buying process, and much more.
About Worldspan, L.P.
Worldspan is a leader in travel technology services for travel suppliers, travel agencies, e-commerce sites and corporations worldwide. Utilizing some of the fastest, most flexible and efficient networks and computing technologies, Worldspan provides comprehensive electronic data services linking thousands of travel suppliers around the world to a global customer base. Worldspan offers industry-leading Fares and Pricing technology such as Worldspan e-Pricing®, hosting solutions and customized travel products. Worldspan enables travel suppliers, distributors and corporations to reduce costs and increase productivity with technology like Worldspan Go!® and Worldspan Trip Manager® XE. Worldspan is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Additional information is available at worldspan.com.
Source: Worldspan, L.P.
CONTACT:
Erin Hadaway of Worldspan, L.P.,
+1-770-563-6545,
erin.hadaway@worldspan.com
Web site: http://worldspan.com/
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