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Photo Credit: Fahim Khan, Travelport (L), speaking at Skift Data + AI Summit on June 3, 2026 in New York City. Skift
AI agents can already help travelers dream up trips. Booking them is harder. Travelport is betting that cleaner access to flights, hotels, and extras will keep travel sellers from looking elsewhere.
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Travelport formally launched TripServices on Thursday, a cloud-native API platform the company says can connect flights, hotels, and extras through one system while handling more of the booking work developers previously had to build themselves.
The GDS wants more of that complexity to sit inside its own system, not with the agencies, startups, and AI tools building on top of it.
The company said TripServices uses machine learning models to rank content, surface more relevant offers, and avoid returning long lists of options that do not fit the trip. The company also said it has spent the past 18 months expanding servicing tools for changes, disruptions, and cancellations.
Ahead of Thursday’s formal launch, Fahim Khan, senior vice president of product at Travelport, discussed TripServices at the Skift Data + AI Summit in early June, noting that some travel partners were already
Curated by Adriana Lee
Travel Technology Reporter
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Travelport has introduced TripServices, a new cloud-native API platform aimed at streamlining and modernizing travel bookings for agencies, startups, and AI tools. By using machine learning to improve offer relevancy and expanding tools for servicing changes, the platform seeks to reduce complexity for developers and position Travelport as a leading choice for AI-driven travel infrastructure. The launch is part of Travelport’s broader effort to compete with other major GDS providers and to leverage partnerships for advancing AI capabilities in travel.
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