My first 100 days at Amadeus: why listening to the rail industry can enable us to help shape its future
Posted on February 27, 2012
Posted by Thomas Drexler (Director of Rail, Amadeus IT Group) For those of you I have not yet had the pleasure of meeting, I was appointed Director of Rail at Amadeus back in October 2011. As you may know, rail is an integral element of Amadeus’ New Businesses portfolio, sitting alongside hotel and airport IT, as [...]
Why the next ten years looks set to be the decade of rail
Posted on February 10, 2012
We’ve launched a major new whitepaper entitled Back on Track with the aim of stimulating debate around the theme of how outsourcing can help drive modernisation in the rail industry.
7,000 rail passengers across six countries reveal the ‘future of rail’
Posted on November 15, 2011
In many ways, it’s probably the rail industry equivalent of the famous question: ‘who from history would you most like to invite if you were hosting a dinner party?’…. For those of you that are now entirely confused I am of course referring to the research question ‘which celebrity would you most like to sit next to on an international train journey’, which was just one of many posed to travellers in the recent Amadeus/YouGov traveller survey.
The rail industry shows significant potential in Europe
Posted on August 26, 2011
With much of the European travel industry saturated, it is rare to see a travel sector showing anything like the potential of rail right now. Take for example the recent EU Transport white paper which sets out a vision for travel in Europe. The paper foresees a huge modal shift in transportation, which would see rail take a more influential role across the continent.
