2006

Amadeus wants to become the world’s leading provider of IT services to the travel and tourism industry. The company officially changes its name from Amadeus Global Travel Distribution SA to Amadeus IT Group SA.

Throughout the organisation, and in the 217 markets in which it is present, the corporate values of Partnership, Team Spirit, Excellence and Leadership are identified by employees and embedded in business and management processes.

The European Commission announces that Amadeus is the leading European travel and tourism company in terms of the level of R&D investment. Amadeus announces the creation of an Innovation Department in Sophia Antipolis.

The group announces that its National Marketing Companies are to be re-named Amadeus Commercial Organisations (ACOs), a term that better reflects their business aims.

Amadeus launches Amadeus Meta Pricer to deliver global air content to travel search engines (meta search engines) and help airlines to cost-efficiently maximise their distribution.

AMADEUS BOOKINGS: 499 million

AMADEUS REVENUE: €2,683 million

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