Global Statistics
Leadership By the Numbers
Through the combined reach and strengths of Galileo by Travelport™, Worldspan by Travelport™ and GTA, we deliver more travel products and services to points of sale in more countries than any other travel distributor or GDS provider. Galileo and Worldspan alone reserve more than 8.5 million car rentals per year. If these cars were placed in one line, they would stretch 30,000 miles – long enough to circle the globe. You could say we go to the ends of the earth for our customers. We also deliver more than 20 million hotel room nights annually – enough to fill every guest room at the world’s largest hotel, every night for more than 11 years.
Our geographical reach and robust content are two reasons we’re the world’s leading provider of informed travel choice. The other reasons? Innovation, speed, data accuracy, cost-efficiency and the productivity-building features of our solutions ensure the best, most reliable travel experiences for our customers and travellers everywhere. Our distribution solutions for suppliers fully integrate with the shopping, pricing, booking and ticketing tools used by our travel retailers and corporations worldwide.
Global Statistics for Travelport GDS
Galileo by Travelport and Worldspan by Travelport
- Operating in 145 countries
- #2 market position in the Americas (the world’s largest region for GDS services)
- #2 market position in EMEAA
- #1 in key developed countries, such as the UK and Italy
- #1 in fast-growing Middle East and Southern Africa
- #1 market position in Asia Pacific (fastest growing region, excluding regional GDSs)
- 63,000+ travel agencies (representing online and traditional travel agencies)
- 450 airlines
- 83,000 hotel properties, representing 265 hotel chains and more than 430 brands
- 28,000 car rental locations, representing more than 25 car rental companies
- 400+ cruise lines and tour operators
- 13 major rail networks
- 7,500 tourist attractions
- Up to 1.1 billion transactions per day
- 4.3 billion stored fares
- 46 million air searches per day
- 19 million hotel and car rental transactions per day
- 20 million hotel room nights annually
- 8.5 million car rental bookings annually
- 8+ million European rail tickets issued (2006)
- 410 million bookings annually
- Available in 35 languages
Travelport GDS’s Robust Technology Infrastructure
- 35+ million lines of code
- 424 terabytes of data
- 3,900+ servers for open systems fares and shopping
- 18 IBM mainframes, capable of 63,000 million instructions per second (MIPS)
- 20,000 messages per second
- 1.2 million data read/writes per second
- 99.99 percent core systems uptime
- Average system response time: less than three seconds
- Gigabyte Ethernet backbones
- Electronic e-vaulting retains previous copies of system data
- Denver and Atlanta data centers: amongst world’s largest non-military data facilities
- 213 thousand square feet of raised floor space
Global Statistics for GTA
- Operates in 120 countries
- 2,300 local experts in over 30 countries
- 38,000+ travel suppliers
- 23,000+ contracted hotels
- 180,000 destination services
- Available in 35 languages