GlobalStar
Travel Management has added Brazil¡¯s Hostway Travel LTDA, established in 2001
and one of the 10 largest TMCs in the country, as its newest partner.
Hostway
Travel currently has wholly owned offices in Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Chile,
Argentina and Mexico, and will hold the
GlobalStar licence for all those countries.?
Hostway
has its own in-house booking solution named Cardinals and is connected to
Sabre.
Hostway
Travel CEO and founder Brunno Bernardes said: ¡°We have identified a great
opportunity and synergy to join GlobalStar and develop standards
and excellence in the main markets of Latin America. Being part of GlobalStar
allows us to offer our customers a global reach, in addition to the countries where
we have operations¡±.
GlobalStar¡¯s
president and CEO Steve Hartwell said: ¡°Hostway are a very good culture fit and they share our
client service values and entrepreneurial vision. With Hostway Travel we
instantly have a very ambitious TMC partner in all key economies in the Latin
American region providing consistent service to all our clients." ? ? ?
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In February, the network named James Stevenson as its new CEO?and launched a new hotel booking tool for SMEs.
GlobalStar, founded in 2001, is a network of more than 90 independent TMC partners around the world which represents more than US$14 billion in aggregated
travel spend.