Travel Weekly's 2017 Power List


17 | Omega World Travel

Omega World Travel
2016 sales: $1.4 billion
Employees: 530
Previous ranking: 17 (tie)

3102 Omega Office Park
Fairfax, VA 22031
T (703) 359-0200
Website

Executives

PRESIDENT/CEO: Gloria Bohan
EVP: Goran Gligorovic

2016 Developments

Implemented new communication system, including an agent chat feature.

Revamped marketing material, including new website and redesigned corporate blog; created a new set of brochures, updating branding and providing a clearer view of what the company offers to the public.

Updated OmegaLytics, introduced in 2015, to include contract management and unused ticket reporting.

Added many clients, including the PGA of America and Millennium Challenge Corp.

Company Facts

ARC sales of $697 million.

Offers comprehensive service configurations to corporations and government, including technology tools and other travel services. Does not restrict clients to any specific products or ways of conducting business, utilizing open systems to better accommodate client needs and help them to meet their goals.

83% of sales from business, 7% leisure, 10% other.

Owns Cruise.com, one of the highest volume online sellers of cruise; TravTech, a wholly owned technology company ($490 million in annual sales for subsidiaries).

Member of GlobalStar.

Privately held; Gloria Bohan majority shareholder.

Looking Ahead

Hopes to implement more advancements in OmegaLytics.

Plans to release a new mobile application that will include flight details and mobile check-in, real-time flight status and alerts, flight sharing, airport directions, Uber integration, confirmation email parsing, accommodation details and hotel check-in, offline travel documents, visa requirements, weather, airport wait times, offline maps and geolocation, street search and offline directions by foot, subway and car.

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