Travelport (NYSE: TVPT), a leading Travel Commerce Platform announced today a new extended partnership with the leading Asia-focused online travel agency (OTA), ZUJI.

With this partnership, ZUJI, a well-known OTA brand in Southeast Asia, continues to connect to Travelport's innovative Travel Commerce Platform providing its consumers with access to real-time travel content from over 400 airlines, both low cost carriers and network carriers, as well as 650,000 hotel properties and extensive car rental, rail and cruise options. Furthermore, over 200 airlines have signed up to use Travelport's leading merchandising technology, which enables them to display and sell their branded fares and additional ancillary services in the same way they do on their own websites. This means that Zuji customers can easily shop and compare in one place in order to efficiently find the very best flight choice.

Jacob Jiang, Commercial Director of Uriel Aviation Holdings Ltd, the holding company of ZUJI, said: 'We are pleased to deepen ZUJI's partnership with Travelport to deliver valuable choices to our customers and enhance our ability to provide an exceptional e-commerce experience. With Travelport's impressive content, technology and solutions, we look forward to exploring further growth opportunities in the online travel space.'

Mark Meehan, Travelport's Managing Director, Asia Pacific, 'As online booking is very often the preferred method for travel purchases in Southeast Asia, Travelport is excited to be able to provide distribution and content support for our partners. We are also investing in the online and travel technology space in this region which continues to be the fastest growing in the world. We are thrilled that ZUJI recognizes the value of what we have built together and are keen to continue working with us into the future.'

ZUJI continues to be one of over 68,000 travel agencies around the globe connecting to Travelport's travel commerce platform.

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About Travelport (www.travelport.com)

Travelport is a Travel Commerce Platform providing distribution, technology, payment, mobile and other solutions for the global travel and tourism industry. With a presence in approximately 180 countries, and approximately 4,000 employees, our 2016 net revenue was over $2.3 billion.

Travelport is comprised of:

  • A Travel Commerce Platform through which it facilitates travel commerce by connecting the world's leading travel providers with online and offline travel buyers in a proprietary business-to-business (B2B) travel marketplace. Travelport has a leadership position in airline merchandising, hotel content and rate distribution, mobile travel commerce and a pioneering B2B payment solution that addresses the needs of travel intermediaries to efficiently and securely settle travel transactions.
  • Technology Services through which it provides critical IT services to airlines, such as shopping, ticketing, departure control and other solutions, enabling them to focus on their core business competencies and reduce costs.

Travelport is headquartered in Langley, U.K. The Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and trades under the symbol 'TVPT'.

About ZUJI

ZUJI is one of Asia Pacific's award winning online travel agencies, with teams located throughout the region with a network of online travel sites in Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore. Pioneering online travel since 2002, ZUJI has enabled over 3.5 million trips around the world, and more each day.

ZUJI partners with airlines, hotels worldwide, car hire and insurance vendors to offer customers honest travel value and the breath of choice in their travel options. ZUJI is committed to traveller focused technology, and building the right tools to ensure hassle-free holiday planning. All inventories are real-time, and all bookings with us are secured and instantly confirmed. Trusted by travellers, ZUJI continues to have an average of over 60,000 unique website visits everyday to search, compare and book flight and hotel itineraries.

Being available 24/7 is ZUJI's commitment. Book a trip with ZUJI conveniently any time of the day, and enjoy 24/7 customer support that is only a click or call away.

For more information, please visit: www.zuji.com

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