Amadeus to unveil new self-booking tool
Amadeus has revealed it is working on a new feature for its corporate self booking tool that will further improve transparency for corporations looking for total control over their employee travel spend.
The upgrade to version 12.1 of Amadeus e-Travel Management, due for market release in the first quarter of 2009, will allow TMCs to collate information about offline bookings as well as those made online.
Amadeus says the aim is to improve adoption rates further.
UK and Ireland director of marketing Una Bennett said: “This is all about achieving the economies of scale that we promised. Corporations struggle with adoption rates and take up so we are now trying to maximise adoption.
“We think this product will change the fact that corporations ask TMCs for SBTs and then they don’t get used as much as they should be.â€
Meanwhile, the IT provider says hotels offering their best available rates through the GDS now account for 75.3% of its hotel bookings.
by Dinah Hatch
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