improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article appears to contain a large number of buzzwords . specific concerns may be found on the talk page . please help improve this article if you can . november 2011 this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . march 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message this article contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . march 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message travelport type public traded as nyse tvpt industry travel technology founded 2001 united states headquarters langley berkshire uk mailing address key people gordon wilson president and ceo ; douglas steenland chairman board of directors ; bernard bot cfo ; stephen shurrock chief commercial officer revenue us 2.1 billion number of employees approximately 3 400 subsidiaries travelport includes travelport apollo travelport galileo and travelport worldspan website www.travelport.com travelport is a travel commerce platform providing distribution technology payment and other solutions for the travel and tourism industry . contents 1 company 2 history 3 references 4 external links company edit travelport is headquartered in langley berkshire . the company recently completed its initial public offering on the new york stock exchange and trades under the symbol tvpt . history edit travelport traces its origins back to 1971 but its most immediate predecessor travel distribution services tds was founded in 2001 through the acquisition of galileo international by tds s parent cendant corporation . travelport was formed in august 2006 when cendant sold orbitz and galileo to the blackstone group in a deal valued at 4.3 billion . 1 shortly after the blackstone led buyout in december 2006 travelport struck a deal to buy one of its rivals worldspan for 1.4 billion . 2 314 318 in may 2007 the company filed a registration statement with the u.s. securities and exchange commission to sell a portion of orbitz worldwide in an initial public offering ipo . the ipo was priced on july 20 2007 opening at 15.00 per share and closed on july 25 2007 . a month later travelport completed the worldspan deal integrating worldspan with galileo . by combining operations with worldspan and streamlining overlapping functions that travelport had inherited from a string of more than 20 earlier mergers under cendant travelport cut its overhead by 390 million in three years and doubled its cash flow . 2 317 on september 19 2007 travelport became the first travel company to receive a 100 percent rating on the sixth annual corporate equality index awarded by the american human rights campaign foundation . 3 worldspan achieved the 100 percent rating on hrc s corporate equality index in 2002 2003 2004 and 2005 . on may 5 2011 travelport completed the 720m sale of its gta gullivers travel associates business to kuoni . references edit blackstone to buy orbitz galileo from cendant . business travel news . june 30 2006 . retrieved march 31 2016 . a b david carey and john e. morris king of capital the remarkable rise fall and rise again of steve schwarzman and blackstone crown 2010 . ferris bev . travelport gets human rights accolade travelmole.com september 19 2007 . accessed september 27 2007 . external links edit travelport website v t e the blackstone group founders peter george peterson stephen a. schwarzman business services cms computers rgis sungard minority shareholder consumer retail michaels joint control performance food group pinnacle foods united biscuits financial services bankunited minority stake healthmarkets minority stake fgic minority stake healthcare biomet emcure pharmaceuticals investment vanguard health systems industrial freescale joint control kl ckner pentaplast trw automotive control media telecommunications eaccess investment nielsen holdings minority stake axtel minority stake deutsche telekom minority stake tdc minority stake the weather channel minority stake travel & leisure hilton worldwide center parcs europe freehold caesars entertainment corporation minority stake merlin entertainments minority stake seaworld entertainment tragus group travelport real estate extended stay america minority stake equity office luxury resorts lxr la quinta inns & suites retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title travelport & oldid 736266688 categories travel technologyprivate equity portfolio companiesblackstone group companiesonline travel agenciescompanies listed on the new york stock exchangehidden categories wikipedia articles containing buzzwords from november 2011articles needing additional references from march 2016all articles needing additional referencesarticles with a promotional tone from march 2016all articles with a promotional tone navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 26 august 2016 at 08 46 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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