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Our Company

Today’s travel industry is seeing rapid growth, high customer expectations, fierce competition and pressure on margins. This is a market driven by new technologies, new entrants and new business models.

In this challenging context and within a short timeframe, Amadeus has become a world leader in the travel and tourism industry, providing a comprehensive offer in distribution, points of sale and IT solutions that drive our customers’ business performance.

Amadeus technology lies behind the travel industry’s most successful growth strategies, providing business critical solutions across sales and e-commerce, business management, application integration and operational improvement.

Our customers are providers, sellers and consumers of travel and tourism products, each using our modular technology to enhance their business processes, increase their sales and reinforce their competitive advantage.

A few figures:

• 145 hosted airlines
• 70,000 hotel properties
• 392,300 + points of sale worldwide
• 500,000,000 + bookings processed
• 266,000,000 + transactions/day
• 95% world’s scheduled networks airline seats
• 16% online bookings
• 83,700 travel agency locations

Amadeus Sophia Antipolis
An attractive work environment
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Amadeus Sophia Antipolis is the central headquarters for development activities, with on-site and worldwide teams developing solutions for travel distribution, e-commerce, points of sale, and airline and hotel IT.
It is the main site for product management and product marketing teams, focusing on customer needs and market demand.
Worldwide customer services are also located on the premises.

Our vision is to become the leading provider of IT solutions that enable success in the travel and tourism industry.
Our strategy is to expand our portfolio of solutions and associated services to improve our customers’ business and use our development and operations expertise to provide these solutions rapidly to market at high reliability levels.

A site of technological excellence

It is within the Sophia Antipolis site that the innovative solutions are developed that make us today:

• The n°1 distributor for travel agencies, airline companies and actors of the tourism/leisure industry
• The expert IT partner optimising performances of airline companies, hospitality, railways, ferries, car rentals...
• The world leader in online solutions for travel agencies, airline companies and corporations.

Situated in the heart of Europe’s leading technology park on the French Cote d’Azur since 1988, there are currently some 1800 people, representing more than 50 nationalities. The large campus of 13 hectares is comprised of 46,000m2 with sun-filled office spaces within luxurious grounds including a restaurant with panoramic views.

A gold mine of expertise

The Amadeus culture embraces a diversity of professional lives. Recent graduates and people from all sectors of the computing and travel industry work alongside one another, sharing a broad range of corporate and cultural experiences.

By coming to the Amadeus Sophia Antipolis site you would join the best talents currently made up of more than 1,800 employees. More than 50 nationalities are represented on the Sophia Antipolis site. This variety of backgrounds has been a major factor in the success of Amadeus; it is not just a matter of language, but also a basis for a comprehensive approach in understanding needs and finding solutions.
Within Amadeus, accomplishments are based on successfully transforming differences into complementary skills, to work in a truly global dimension.

An attractive work environment

Values

Our exceptional company culture has made us what we are today. All Amadeus employees are guided by our common values:
Leadership. Partnership, Team Spirit and Excellence

The Amadeus Sophia Antipolis site has been conceived to enhance employee well-being and optimise working conditions.

Avant-garde architecture expresses the Amadeus philosophy and ambitions.
With its glass panels, sober lines and modular structures, the Amadeus campus in Sophia Antipolis is a combination of ultra-modern architecture and refined classicism.
Our harmonious buildings blend into the natural greenery and hillside setting of the technology park.

The perks

Amadeus contributes financially to your transportation expenses between home and work. You will also find an on-site restaurant offering a wide variety of choice every day and can benefit from a very active and dedicated employee committee (Comité d’Entreprise) proposing a diversity of services and extra-curricular activities.

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