Last year we released an infographic entitled Smarter corporate travel spending which revealed hidden savings opportunities for travel managers based upon a study we conducted with the consultancy company Hermes. This research really highlighted some of the challenges travel managers face in addition to the opportunities; reducing spend by up to 25% while keeping the [...]
Read moreFurther to our recent Blog post, we can now bring you the full details of research conducted by the consultancy company Hermes and commissioned by Amadeus. The white paper “Corporate Travel Management in Western Europe: Challenges and Opportunities” looks at current travel management practices and gives concrete recommendations to help optimise travel spend. It is [...]
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Who hasn’t enjoyed building sand castles on the beach as a child? Sand is flexible, moldable, and any form is possible – much like the raw material we all work with – data. Data is much like sand in that, at times, it’s difficult to manage. But when managed effectively – it can be extremely illuminating and [...]
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It is good to see how far the Amadeus Partner Network has come in its first year and a half: the solution is now available to partners in 42 countries worldwide, including the US, Germany, Scandinavia, Australia, Brazil and Mexico with more to come. What’s more, since its launch it has more than doubled its [...]
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Traveltainment, the Amadeus Leisure Group, is a leading provider of multi-channel distribution platforms for travel services. We provide innovative software solutions for the travel industry, designed to make the booking of leisure travel easier and quicker. Our internet booking engine TT-IBE celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. Since the market launch in 2003 the online [...]
Read moreWe caught up with Rob Sinclair-Barnes, Marketing Director, Amadeus UK & Ireland at the recent Business Travel Show 2013. Amadeus UK launched the new Industry report The 21st Century Business Traveller at the show so we fielded Rob some questions about the findings. Rob commented on the rationale behind the report: I think fundamentally there’s [...]
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The business travel landscape is constantly changing, and we know that corporate travel managers and Travel Management consultants need to do everything they can to listen better to their clients’ evolving needs and expectations. Accordingly, we’ve commissioned this report to help us, and our customers, succeed in travel by getting closer to the people who [...]
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I was pleased to participate in the second day of the e-Travel Forum in Warsaw, which was fully dedicated to travel agencies, a great follow up to the first day’s focus on hotels. It was a great opportunity to introduce myself to the travel industry in a new role – as Amadeus’ leader in the [...]
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The travel sector is in continuous evolution to meet the needs and expectations of savvy travellers, early adopters of the latest trends in technology and lifestyle. With the travel agents – being physical or virtual (Online Travel agents) – as the front desk for this new generation of travellers, it’s never been so crucial for [...]
Read moreWritten with Ian Van Hove (Program Manager Mobile, Amadeus ITGroup) Mickey Creyf, CEO of BTS Travel, a leading business travel agency in Belgium, tells us more about their mobile application, “George” – which recently won the Belgian Travel Industry Innovation Award 2012. The technology behind the application is Amadeus m-Power, a white label solution created [...]
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