Outolat.com, Middle East’s First Online Retail Travel Agency Selects TPConnects – the First IATA NDC Certified IT Aggregator, as Its Exclusive Technology Partner

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, June 02, 2016 --(PR.com)-- Outolat.com, Middle East’s first online travel retail agency has selected TPConnects – an International Air Transport Association (IATA) New Distribution Capability (NDC) certified IT Vendor and Aggregator to power the internet booking engine with merchandising platform.

Outolat.com’s customers to benefit from superior online booking experience through comparison shopping of various travel components including air and non-air products with ancillaries.

Outolat.com’s Online Travel Agency (OTA) website will operate using TPConnects IATA NDC Certified Aggregator platform - a new-generation, state-of-the-art Java enabled technology solution that provides full access to travel content from both Consolidated Suppliers as well as negotiated individual rates from airlines, hotels etc through the direct connect. TPConnects price and ancillary search, a cutting-edge low price search tool, along with TPConnects Switch, the ancillary merchandising engine, will help customers to quickly and easily find options that suit their travel needs and budget.

“We are glad to advise our partnership with the first IATA NDC Certified IT Vendor in Middle East and Africa Region and pleased to announce that henceforth TPConnects booking engine will process all the flights, hotel, car, rail, dynamic holiday packages and other travel products including the online travel bookings on Outolat.com. TPConnects powered Outolat.com will greatly benefit our customers as they will eventually be able to access a greater number of travel options based on their preference due to the comprehensive content and comparison shopping facility including the direct connect from airlines and hotels,” said Fatima Zahra Chahboun, Director of Business Development of Outolat.com.

Outolat.com is based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates with a multilingual call center facility. Outolat.com will eventually display the travel products from all suppliers including ancillary and rich content and make it easy to see all options which will empower the travellers to make the right decisions. Travelers will enjoy greater transparency along with the freedom to shop at their convenience, fulfilling their travel needs in one purchase from a single online shop. One of the added advantage of Outolat.com will be its dynamic packaging solution whereby customers will be able to create day by day itineraries according to their choices. Outolat.com will be available on all devices including mobile.

Kristine Fernandez, Senior Vice President Commercial, TPConnects, said, “We are very pleased that TPConnects has been chosen by one more online travel agency in the Middle East region, to strengthen its reach both to its Business to Business (B2B) and Business to Consumers (B2C). With the backup of an IATA NDC based Travel Retailing Platform with merchandising capability, we are confident that Outolat.com will be able to provide its customers more choices at competitive prices, an enhanced shopping experience including personalization and comparison shopping with transparency.”