Travelport has announced the launch of a global accelerator program in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) dedicated to addressing the travel industry’s biggest retailing challenges.
Travelport Accelerator will see tech start-ups and innovators looking to enter the travel space take aim at a series of different travel retailing challenges such as data protection, hyper-personalisation and customer acquisition.
Once the challenge has been set, companies with existing technology and products that are relevant to the challenge and use cases outlined on the accelerator webpage are invited to apply.
A cohort of up to 10 companies will be selected to proceed to the next stage, which involves pitching solutions to an esteemed panel of judges from some of the world’s most renowned travel companies, including American Express Global Business Travel, Priceline, Internova Travel Group, Direct Travel and Christopherson Business Travel.
A group of up to three…