Airport Parking & Hotels (APH) has recently announced that its airport parking plug-in, offering an extensive choice of UK airport parking options, is now available through Travelport's award-winning agency point of sale solution, Travelport Smartpoint.

Travelport (NYSE:TPT) is a leading Travel Commerce Platform providing distribution, technology, payment and other solutions for the $8 trillion global travel and tourism industry. This latest application offered through Travelport's Marketplace means that travel agencies can upsell airport parking when making flight bookings using a simple two-step process. The application automatically presents relevant parking content based on specific airport codes and is simple to use and free of charge to travel agents.

The other key features of the APH plug-in include:

• The ability to pre-book airport parking and receive instant confirmation and service documents
• Access to parking availability and real-time quotes for individual flight departures booked
• The capability to integrate PNR details into the back-office system
• Flexibility in payment options in order to simplify and accelerate the payment process

Phillip Morris-Simpson, New Business Development Manager at APH, said: “By tapping into the APH Airport Parking plug-in through Travelport Smartpoint, travel agencies can boost revenue, save time and increase customer loyalty by offering a number of parking solutions to meet individual needs. The plug-in is simple and fast to use. We look forward to continuing our work with Travelport and further developing our relationship over the years ahead.”

Pieter Van Der Voort, Director Partnership and Alliances, at Travelport said: “We are pleased to announce this new agreement with APH which offers travel agents upsell opportunities and the end traveller convenience and peace of mind when booking airport parking in the UK. This latest development is part of Travelport's wider strategy to invest in developing new technologies and ideas, all on an open platform that delivers expansive content and improves customer service. Travelport offers a broad network of over 800 developers within its Travel Commerce Platform which each create their own applications therefore further strengthening our systems.”

For further information on the Airport Parking and Hotels (APH) app,

visit www.aph.com/travelport or call 01342 710022.

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About Airport Parking and Hotels (APH)

Airport Parking and Hotels (APH) is the UK's award winning long stay airport parking operator and booking agency, after winning the Best Airport Parking Company for a fifth year running at British Travel Awards 2014. This year APH also celebrates its 35th year as a retailer and operator of pre-booked airport parking and travel extras. APH offers parking at all major UK airports as well as airport hotels packaged with parking and airport lounges. APH is also a carbon balanced company and has, through support of the World Land Trust, helped purchase more than 1,000 acres of endangered rainforest.

About Travelport

Travelport is a Travel Commerce Platform providing distribution, technology, payment and other solutions for the $8 trillion global travel and tourism industry.  With a presence in over 170 countries, over 3,400 employees and 2014 net revenue of $2.1 billion, Travelport is comprised of:

• A Travel Commerce Platform through which it facilitates travel commerce by connecting the world's leading travel providers with online and offline travel buyers in a proprietary business to business ("B2B") travel marketplace.  In addition, Travelport has leveraged its domain expertise in the travel industry to design a pioneering B2B payment solution that addresses the needs of travel intermediaries to efficiently and securely settle travel transactions.
• Technology Services through which it provides critical IT services to airlines, such as shopping, ticketing, departure control and other solutions, enabling them to focus on their core business competencies and reduce costs.

Travelport is headquartered in Langley, UK.  The Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and trades under the symbol "TVPT".

Media Enquiries

Sarah Salord / Lauren Hill / McCluskey International / 020 8747 2170 / aph@mccluskey.co.uk