Helping agents pull content

Travelport recently launched its Universal Application Programming Interface (UAPI) in India. They also organised workshops in Delhi and Bengaluru.

In a conversation with Rabih Saab, Travelport’s President and Managing Director, Africa, Middle East and South Asia,

spoke to him about what the UAPI really is and why travel agents would choose UAPI over other programmes.

He said, “UAPI is our signature product which helps travel agencies aggregate from multiple sources of content by using one pipeline, so they don’t have to write different codes through different sources of their content. That hugely simplifies the work of the developer and indeed the travel agent, both online and offline and increases productivity.”

“Simply put, for travel agents, again online and offline, it will help to aggregate content from multiple sources in an efficient way. So it will increase the ability to transact more in that space and at the same time, reduce costs as well,” said Saab.

Saab said, “Travel agents today are trying to pull different contents such as high speed rails or low-cost carriers or indeed non-air products. They have to write different APIs, which is cumbersome, difficult to manage, difficult to maintain and quite frankly, costly. With the UAPI, they can reduce their costs and write only one codification instead of having multiple pipelines . Some of the suppliers may read only localised content, available in a particular market. They can do it through the UAPI and aggregate various sources, which is easy for them to manage and can reduce cost and increase productivity.”