Dear Friends, welcome to the Onliner, our quarterly newsletter that brings you the very latest corporate travel news from Amadeus.

In this edition, we focus on China. Our new white paper with research authority PhoCusWright, Corporate Travel Management and Travel Practices in China, paints a picture of the potential opportunities for travel and tourism in the region while shedding light on the significant challenges facing corporate travel in the world’s fastest growing economy.

Our “Product news” section highlights features in Amadeus e-Travel Management v12.1. As well as including a new policy to control the number of employees per flight allowing corporations to manage the risk of travel, the latest version of Amadeus e-Travel Management contains a range of enhanced car features to give greater flexibility to travellers when making car reservations.

France Telecom’s decision to optimise the management of its employees travel with Amadeus is discussed in the “Our Customers” section while our “Did you know?” feature explores how travellers today have the flexibility to arrange to pick up or drop off their rented vehicle at an address other than a car rental office with Amadeus e-Travel Management.

Meet our Corporate Solutions team in the Asia-Pacific region with experts in Bangkok, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, India, Australia and New Zealand, ready to address the needs of corporations. The “What’s going on?” section gives details of the upcoming ACTE Global Education Conference in Washington, at which Amadeus will be attending as an Executive Circle and Platinum sponsor.

Finally, we are pleased to announce that Eberhard Haag, Executive Vice President of Global Operations and General Manager of Data Processing, has been named one of Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders for 2009.

We hope you enjoy reading this issue.

Best regards

 

 

Frank Palapies
Head of Global Commercial Operations, Corporate & Distribution Channels