Galileo Offers Pre-Trip Reports

<B> Galileo Offers Pre-Trip Reports</B>

By Mary Ann McNulty

Adding intelligence to mirror image reservations that have long helped corporations track booking patterns and purchasing, Galileo International and QuixData Systems Inc. are offering a new pre-trip reporting tool that not only tracks policy compliance at the point of sale and ticketing, but each time a reservation is changed.

The tool is the third in Galileo's Decision Support Tools suite that it private labels from QuixData. The other two reporting tools help companies consolidate and analyze data from multiple agencies or GDSs and distribute the information internally (<I>BTN,</I> June 7).

Galileo is licensing the pre-trip reporting, called Compliance Data Reporting, for $14,995, plus a 15 percent annual fee, according to Michael Foliot, senior vice president. The tool relies on a new Galileo data feed that drives information about reservations at one of four points: when a passenger name record is created, an itinerary or a fare is changed and a ticket is issued.

Galileo also offers corporations Travelpoint.com, a self-service booking tool developed by Travelguide Software. Next month, Galileo plans to deploy a version of Travelpoint.com for "lightly managed travel."

Galileo also offers Corporate Travelpoint, a private label of GetThere.com's (formerly Internet Travel Network) Global Manager. Also in the corporate offering are Travelguide's Expense Management solution and Private Fares II, an automated negotiated fares product.