Amadeus launches online travel management solution for Business Travel Agents
Amadeus Business Travel Portal enables you to offer easy online booking for your corporate SME clients, while receiving all the benefits of enhanced customer satisfaction and a more efficient operation
Sydney, Australia, 29 September 2008: Amadeus, a global leader in technology and distribution solutions for the travel and tourism industry, today announced the launch of Amadeus Business Travel Portal -- a customised corporate online booking platform for Business Travel Agencies to strengthen their brand, enhance customer service and improve business performance while allowing their corporate customers to enforce policy compliance, profile management and preferred supplier selection.
Amadeus Business Travel Portal is a low maintenance corporate booking platform offering a simple access to lowest web and GDS airfares including a broad range of hotel and car corporate fares. Some of the key benefits for travel agencies include:
• Being able to service customers, online, 24 hours a day with a personalised, branded website and automated ticketing
• No requirement to deliver training or implementation services – Amadeus does it all for you
• Offering the lowest GDS and web fares
• Having Amadeus manage the set-up and ongoing maintenance, improving efficiency and reducing rollout time to new customers
• Offering Travel Agencies’ corporate customers a cost-effective corporate booking tool with policy compliance and profile management.
• Providing online reporting to assist corporate customers in understanding their travel spend and determine where they can cut costs to improve their budget management
“We are committed to understanding our customers’ business needs to ensure we continue to provide solutions that help them achieve their business goals. A cost-effective solution to managing the corporate travel sector is in great demand and Business Travel Agencies are looking for more efficient ways to deliver value to their customers. The introduction of Amadeus Business Travel Portal demonstrates our commitment to innovation and flexibility in the provision of sophisticated IT solutions to the travel industry.” stated, Damien Leonard, General Manager: Sales and Marketing, Amadeus.
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About Amadeus
Amadeus is the chosen technology partner for providers, sellers, and buyers of travel. The company provides distribution, IT and point-of-sale solutions to help its customers adapt, grow and succeed in the fast changing travel industry. Customer groups include travel providers (airlines, hotels, car rental companies, railway companies, ferry lines, cruise lines, insurance companies and tour operators), travel sellers (travel agencies) and travel buyers (corporations and travellers). Solutions are grouped in four solution categories – Distribution & Content, Sales & e-Commerce, Business Management and Services & Consultancy.
Amadeus’ distribution system allows over 75,000 travel agency locations and 11,000 airline offices to make bookings on 500 airlines. It provides access to over 58,000 hotel properties and 42 car rental companies serving over 30,000 locations.
Amadeus has central sites in Madrid (corporate headquarters & marketing), Nice (development) and Erding (Operations – data processing centre) and regional offices in Miami, Buenos Aires and Bangkok. Amadeus has offices in 75 countries covering more than 215 markets. The company has over 6,500 employees worldwide, representing 95 nationalities. For the six months ended 30 June 2005, Amadeus reported revenues of €1,226.1m and net income of €154.2m. More information about Amadeus is available at: www.au.amadeus.com.
