Travelport, one of the world's leading providers of global distribution systems (GDS), has won the accolade of ‘best technology provider' at the Scottish Passenger Agents' Association (SPAA) Annual Travel Awards held in Glasgow on 5 November.

(TRAVPR.COM) Langley, UK - 17th November, 2009 - Travelport scooped the award amongst 400 guests who attended the gala dinner ceremony at the Hilton Hotel.  The awards recognise leading travel suppliers to the local agent community and have been held for 17 years.  Winners were drawn in 23 categories from agent votes collected since September.

On collecting the award, Margaret Paton, sales manager for Travelport UK based in Scotland chimed:  "it is a great honour for us to receive this award - it hasn't been an easy year for anyone in the travel industry and to receive such prestigious recognition is wonderful motivation for our team based in Scotland and affirms that the good work we are doing locally to support our agents is being acknowledged and praised".

Travelport also won third place in the SPAA Travel Quiz 2009 category.  The event was sponsored by Travel Weekly and Amadeus.

About Travelport

Travelport is one of the world's largest travel conglomerates offering broad based business services to companies operating in the global travel industry. Travelport is comprised of the global distribution system (GDS) business that includes the Worldspan and Galileo brands; GTA, a leading global, multi-channel provider of hotel and ground services; and IT Services and Software, which hosts mission critical applications and provides business and data analysis solutions for major airlines. With 2008 revenues of $2.5 billion, Travelport operates in 160 countries and has approximately 5,300 employees.

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