News from Worlds’ Leading Cruise Lines, Travelport, Pegasus

Online Tool Helps Customers Select a Cruise Brand

The World’s Leading Cruise Lines, the marketing alliance of Carnival Cruise Lines, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, Cunard Line, Costa Cruises and The Yachts of Seabourn, introduced a Web-based tool designed to help consumers determine which brand’s style is best suited for their vacation.

The tool, called Cruise Navigator, asks users to choose from a range of desired experiences to indicate priorities and interests. The user’s ideal vacation is then compared to a favorite car or a favorite film, for example, to self-select among brands spanning the contemporary, premium and luxury cruise categories.

Videos and links to travel agent locators also are provided.

Copa Signs Full-Content Agreement with Travelport

Travelport signed a new global full-content agreement with Panama-based Copa Airlines.

The multi-year agreement provides access to the airline’s full range of published fares and inventory for all subscribers to Galileo and Worldspan, effective immediately.

Marriott Expands Relationship with Pegasus’ Commission Processing

Two more Marriott International brands will use Pegasus Solutions Inc.’s Global Commission Processing Services, which offers travel agents weekly commission payments via check or direct deposit in any of 37 currencies.

Marriott has used the Pegasus commission product for 12 years. The added brands are Marriott ExecuStay (GDS code EE), which provides  move-in-ready furnished apartments within two business days in more than 300 cities in the U.S., and the Autograph Collection (GDS code AK), a diverse portfolio of “high-personality” independent hotels.

Travelport Renews Agreement With ATPI

Travelport expanded its 15-year relationship with the ATPI Group, a travel management company that serves customers in the U.K., the Netherlands, Belgium, the U.S., France, Norway and seven other countries, in a new long-term agreement.

The agreement includes the provision of technology and solutions to marine travel specialist Instone International, which the ATPI Group acquired last year.

Travelport is also providing technologies that will help ATPI increase the efficiency of its Web-based databases and will provide customized training solutions.