TravelPort ties up with Salasar Retail Ltd

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It is evident that retail industry is on a high in India at present. Mushrooming malls and the ever increasing crowds at these places is an ample proof of this trend. In an effort to provide complete travel solutions in a customer friendly mall environment, Mumbai-based TravelPort Holidays today announced its strategic alliance with Delhi-based Salasar Retail to open travel terminals at Salasar outlets.

Commenting on the tie-up Mr. Sandiip Siingh, VP-Marketing, TravelPort said, "We have been witnessing a trend where malls have become a one stop shop for customers that provide range, comfort and convenience of the world's best brands while giving a royal experience of a lifetime. Riding on this trend we have thought of providing suite of travel & tourism products and services at India's best lifestyle and convenience retail outlets and malls. Our tie up with Salasar Retail Ltd is a step ahead in this direction in providing unparalled value to the patrons of Salasar."

TravelPort, through its classy terminals, will work in tandem with malls to achieve their objective of increased footfalls and sales. TravelPort's well packaged and designed world events and campaigns involving a lot of Tourism Boards, Airlines, Hotels of the world will help malls achieve their objective.

Branded " TravelPort@Salasar ", the terminals shall provide a myriad of travel and tour products/services that shall include airline/railway/coach/cruise tickets, Passport and Visa assistance, Leisure Holiday packages, Hotel Bookings, Forex, Money Transfer, and Travel insurance with innovative offers to customers. With a classy and styled ambience equipped with best of POP (point of purchase) commodities, technologically advanced sales and presentation systems and well trained employee force, TravelPort@Salasar will benchmark an innovative practice of shopping travel & tourism products by the discerning customers,  while representing travel & tours category in retail.

Mr. Shiv Bhutoria, Assistant General Manager- Purchase, Salasar Retail Ltd, said "With growing consumerism and changing lifestyles we understood the trend among the people to go on weekend holidays and travel in general. In this context we would like to utilize the expertise of TravelPort in providing our customers value added travel services that gel with our retail philosophy ".

 

In the initial phase TravelPort will have its terminals deployed at the following locations; Gwalior, Pune, Cuttack, Kanpur, Ludhiana, Guwahati, Jaipur stores.TravelPort intends to increase its presence across the Salasar outlets present in the country. 

 

Sourced From: Blue Lotus Communications Pvt. Ltd