An East Kilbride business that produces specialist travel-booking technology is to create up to 200 new jobs. The expansion by Traveltek represents a doubling of the company’s workforce.

Most of the new jobs will be in Scotland, but the company will also be opening new offices in Sao Paulo, Shanghai and Dubai (it already has offices in Miami, Sydney and Hyderabad).

Managing director Kenny Picken (pictured) said: “We have a strong position as the booking systems supplier of choice for many of the major travel trade businesses. There is a significant opportunity to leverage that position and develop Traveltek into a major global technology business.

Growth finance will enable us to accelerate that process, build a larger global footprint and create a large number of high-quality technology jobs, many of which will be in Scotland.”