Expedia (EXPE) and Choice Hotels (CHH) tonight
announced they have signed a new, long-term deal that will return Choice's inventory to Expedia's global family of websites including Expedia and Hotels.com. The three-year term is even included in the press release but maybe that is standard for a deal negotiated in the press.
[EDIT: We assumed wrong. The deal in Europe actually is with Worldspan.]
Expedia.com started using Travelport GDS in January for "select European points of sale." A spokesperson did not immediately respond to a question about whether the deal is with Galileo as opposed to Worldspan, but assuming it is, the agreement would represent Expedia's third new publicly announced GDS relationship over the past three years.