CHICAGO, IL - July 24, 2007 - Orbitz Worldwide, whose corporate travel brands serve everyone from the small, independent business traveler to the large Fortune 500 corporation, is now helping those attending corporate meetings readily plan and book travel through a new strategic alliance with StarCite, the largest on-demand global meetings management company in the marketplace today.
StarCite provides a web-based software platform for enterprise meetings management that helps organizations bring visibility, savings and control to corporate meetings and event spend. Through this new alliance with Orbitz Worldwide's Corporate Travel Solutions Group, StarCite users and meeting attendees will be able to book travel on Orbitz for Business and Travelport for Business direct from the StarCite Attendee Management application. The new travel booking feature is expected to be available to customers by the first quarter of 2008.
"We're pleased to provide event planners and meeting attendees with a valuable extension to the StarCite platform, and a quick and easy way to coordinate travel plans with their next corporate meeting," said Dean Sivley, COO and general manager, Orbitz Worldwide's Corporate Travel Solutions Group.
Mike Boult, president and CEO of StarCite, added, "We are confident our StarCite customers will fully embrace the convenience and efficiency of Orbitz's corporate travel booking tools within our meetings management platform. Integrating travel booking with our meetings management platform is a key step in driving a more strategic approach to corporate meetings and events."
StarCite has also selected Travelport for Business, one of Orbitz Worldwide's leading corporate travel brands, to serve StarCite's corporate travel management program. StarCite joins the growing number of companies who rely upon Orbitz Worldwide's Corporate Travel Solutions Group's products for their business travel needs. Orbitz for Business and Travelport for Business together welcomed 23 new corporate clients in the second quarter of 2007, and jointly serve over 2,000 customers and more than one million business travelers. |
