Amadeus e-Travel Appoints Aitor Marin as Head of the Newly Created e-Travel Business Unit in Latin America

Madrid: 27 January , 2005: Amadeus e-Travel, the global leader in online travel solutions and the e-commerce business unit of Amadeus Global Travel Distribution, today announced the appointment of Aitor Marin as Head of Amadeus e-Travel, Latin America.

Based in Sao Paulo, Aitor will be responsible for the overall Sales, Marketing and Management of e-Travel’s online travel booking solutions, including corporate travel mangement solutions e-Travel^® Aergo and SAP Travel Management powered by e-Travel (SAP TM), and leisure solutions e-Travel^® Amigo and e-Travel^® Planitgo.

Aitor joins e-Travel in Latin America after more than five years at Grupo Iris, a technology company providing IT services to the Travel Agencies (Front, Mid and Back Office products) and Azor System, the e-commerce branch of Grupo Iris, where he was Sales Manager responsible for sales and marketing for both companies.

Marcos Isaac, Director Corporate and Distributor Channels, e-Travel, based in the Madrid headquarters, said “The appointment of Aitor demonstrates the determination of Amadeus e-Travel to become the technology leader of the online travel industry for the corporate and leisure travel agency segment in Latin America. We are seeing an increasing demand from our customers to offer additional services to their direct customers, and from big corporations eager to implement online solutions and reduce their travel expenditures.”

Aitor added, “Many prospects and customers are confirming that Amadeus e-Travel is synonymous with superior account and the best management solutions on the market. With the newly created e-Travel business unit in Latin America, I think that we are very well positioned to exploit the huge potential this market presents for e-Travel.”

Aitor holds a Masters Degree in Tourism from the University of Las Palmas, the Canary Islands and a degree in Business Studies with Tourism. He is a native Spanish and Catalan speaker and is fluent in English and Portuguese.

Notes to the editors:

About e-Travel:
e-Travel, the e-commerce business unit of Amadeus Global Travel Distribution S.A., is the leading global provider of online travel technology. It provides e-commerce solutions to airlines, corporations, travel agencies and other online travel businesses, and is dedicated to its customers’ net success. e-Travel serves customers in 90 countries including corporations such as Airbus, DaimlerChrysler and Oracle Corporation, airlines and travel suppliers such as Air France, Iberia and Qantas, and online agencies such as Opodo. Parent company Amadeus Global Travel Distribution S.A. is the leading global distribution system (GDS) and technology provider serving the marketing, sales and distribution needs of the world’s travel and tourism industries. For further information, please visit our Web site at www.e-travel.com.

Amadeus (MAD: AMS)
Amadeus is the leading global distribution system (GDS) and technology provider, serving the marketing, sales and distribution needs of the world’s travel and tourism industries.

Amadeus is a leading IT solutions provider to the airline industry, providing a Customer Management Systems portfolio, including: Altéa Sell (distribution), Altéa Plan (inventory management system) and Altéa Fly (departure control system). British Airways, Qantas and Finnair are the first customers to implement this full suite of Customer Management Systems.

e-Travel, Amadeus’ e-commerce business unit, is the global leader in online travel technology and corporate travel management solutions.

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