IT Major Cognizant has announced a partnership with Travel Technolgy company Travelport to deploy claude to modernize the way it builds, tests and maintains software across its travel retailing and distribution platforms. 

The collaboration aims to accelerate the delivery of AI-led innovation to airlines, hoteliers, travel management companies and online travel agencies worldwide, while embedding AI features within Travelport’s platform.

“The travel industry runs on some of the most complex technology infrastructure in the world, and the companies that will lead it forward are the ones investing now in how that infrastructure gets builtThis collaboration is about giving Travelport the tools to move faster and deliver higher quality at scale to meet the challenge of a changing travel distribution landscape. That’s what the AI Builder model is designed to do,”,” said Ravi Kumar S, CEO of Cognizant. “

“Collaborating with Cognizant and Anthropic gives us a genuine AI superpower. Anthropic brings the most capable AI models and tools; Cognizant adds engineering talent and development capability to deploy them at scale; and Travelport brings the travel infrastructure and the partner network that connects it all to the real world of distribution and bookings, ,” said John Mangelaars, CEO of Travelport. 

Published on May 27, 2026