Amadeus e-Travel Launches New Business Unit in Latin America

Sao Paulo, 26 January, 2005: Amadeus e-Travel, the global leader in online travel solutions and the e-commerce division of Amadeus Global Travel Distribution, today launched its Latin American business unit for online travel booking solutions.

e-Travel will market its flagship online travel management solutions e-Travel^® Aergo, SAP Travel Management powered by e-Travel (SAP TM), e-Travel^® Planitgo, and e-Travel^® Amigo in Latin America, where the online travel market is predicted to grow more than threefold in next 3 years, to 1.5 billion EUR*.

• e-Travel^® Aergo offers an intuitive, easy-to-use interface that ensures corporations maximum control from a managed travel program that allows travel policy application and ensures policy compliance. Ticket price reporting allows travel managers to effectively measure traveler behaviour and drive change by comparing actual paid ticket prices with the lowest offered.
• SAP Travel Management powered by e-Travel (SAP TM) provides integration between policy-compliant online travel planning and booking through GDS connectivity and expense reporting within the company’s existing SAP ERP infrastructure.
• e-Travel^® Planitgo the airline and online travel agency industry’s most widely adopted internet solution for leisure and lightly managed travel ,which can be individually configured under the owner’s brand, where they select from a range of functional modules and settings to address business needs. Latin American airlines, including Varig, Aerolineas Argentinas, TACA, Southern Winds, Copa, UAir and Pluna have chosen Planitgo and registered a record 260% increase in transactions in 2004, compared to 2003.
• e-Travel^® Amigo is the quick, low cost, easy route to e-commerce. This solution provides an agency branded e-commerce website, where customers can check schedules and find the lowest fares, make bookings and access dynamic travel information based on departure and arrival cities from, automatic currency conversion to destination information and weather.

Latin American corporations and travel agencies requiring online corporate travel booking solutions that are policy compliant reduce costs and integrate seamlessly with existing software systems can now benefit from e-Travel’s solutions.

Volkswagen Mexico and CEMEX both chose e-Travel solutions following a market evaluation to streamline its entire travel management process, from reservations to reporting, and gain a reduction in overall travel costs.

Aitor Marin, Head of the of the new Amadeus e-Travel Business Unit , based in Sao Paulo, said ,”The creation of our e-Travel business unit 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 willing to implement online solutions and reduce their travel expenditures”.

More information about Amadeus e-Travel is available at: www.e-travel.com and www.amadeus.com

For information, please contact:

Aitor Marin
Amadeus e-Travel Latin America
Tel: +55 11 3147 4877
Fax: +55 11 3147 4876
E-mail: [email protected]
www.e-travel.com

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.

More information about Amadeus is available at: www.amadeus.com.

For further information, please contact:

Corporate & Marketing Communication
Amadeus
Tel: +34 91 582 0160
Fax: +34 91 582 0188
E-mail: [email protected]