Travelport GDS Launches Travelport Featured Property, New Hotel Merchandising Product on Worldspan

25% Global Sales Increase Seen on Advertising Vehicle that Delivers Results for Hoteliers

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. May 07, 2009

LANGLEY, UK, May 7, 2009 - Travelport GDS, one of the world's largest global distribution system (GDS), today announced the launch of Featured Property priority placement, now available for the first time on the WorldspanTM system. This advertising option provides hotels and resorts with the opportunity to improve placement in search results and promote their property during the critical booking process as travel agents look to find hotels in specific locations on the Worldspan and GalileoTM systems.

Featured Property priority placement provides hoteliers with the ability to place information about their hotels in the perfect spot when travel agents are looking to book within a specific region. From a travel agent booking process perspective, this amounts to placing items at the coveted eye level spot on grocery store shelves. Realizing the value of a new opportunity to increase room nights, more than 1,000 properties have already enrolled during the pre-selling phase.

Travelport GDS has 63,000 travel agency locations globally booking 20 million hotel room nights annually on its travel booking platform. Featured Property priority placements, previously available on the Galileo system and now on the Worldspan system, provides hotels and resorts the opportunity to improve placement in search results and raise their brand awareness in the market.

"During these challenging times it is more important than ever to utilize all means possible to improve placement in search results, increase bookings and generate incremental revenue," said Travis Christ, president and managing director of the Americas, Travelport GDS. "We've seen the appeal of spending advertising dollars on a vehicle like Featured Property priority placement jump because it's very targeted to 'eyeballs' that are booking room nights for those who are actually traveling.

Added Christ, "We've seen a 25 percent increase in sales globally on Featured Property, year over year for the month of March. At a time when many are choosing to simply stay home, this is a very sound investment of marketing spend. We are pleased to provide hotels and resorts with such an effective means of marketing their properties during this period. "

To learn more about Travelport's Featured Property priority placement product, visit: www.travelport.com or email: [email protected]

About Travelport GDS

Travelport GDS is one of the world's leading global distribution system (GDS) providers, operating both the Galileo and Worldspan platforms, providing real-time travel information and booking capabilities to online and offline travel agencies in over 145 countries. It also operates Travelport Business Intelligence which provides marketing and other critical data to the industry; and IT Services & Software, which offers mission critical reservations, related software and services management to the world's leading airlines. Travelport GDS is a convergence of traditional and online travel distribution services that empower airlines, travel suppliers, travel agencies, Web sites and corporations to provide informed choice to travellers on a global platform. Travelport GDS is a division of Travelport, one of the world's largest travel conglomerates offering broad based business services to companies operating in the global travel industry.

More information about Travelport GDS is available at http://www.travelport.com

For media inquiries:

Jill Brenner

Travelport GDS

1-973-939-1325

[email protected]