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Amadeus is the leading distribution and technology
solutions
provider serving the world’s travel and tourism industry.
Its comprehensive data processing centre serves over 66,000
travel agency locations and some 10,000 airline sales offices,
totaling around 330,000 points of sale located in over 215
markets worldwide.
Through Amadeus, travel agencies and airline offices can
make
bookings on 95 per cent of the world's scheduled airline
seats.
The system also provides access to over 53,400 hotel
properties,
some 45 car rental companies serving over 29,000
locations,
as well as ferry, rail, cruise, tour operators and
insurance companies.
Amadeus is a leading IT solutions provider to the airline
industry;
149 airlines use Amadeus’ Alt?a Sell as the sales and
reservation system in their offices, to provide passengers with
superior and seamless service at optimal cost.
Amadeus’ new generation Customer Management
Solutions
include Alt?a Plan (inventory management system)
and Alt ?
a Fly (departure control system). British Airways,
Qantas and
Finnair are the first customers to implement these
solutions.
e-Travel, Amadeus’ e-commerce business unit, is the
global
leader in online travel technology and corporate travel
management solutions. It services travel agencies in 90
countries, and powers the websites of over 260 corporations
and more than 60 airlines and hotels.
Amadeus is headquartered in Madrid, Spain and quoted
on the
Madrid, Paris and Frankfurt stock exchanges. For the
year ended
31 December 2004, the company reported revenues
of EUR
2,056.7m and net income of EUR 208m. The Amadeus
data
centre is in Erding (near Munich), Germany and its principal
development offices are located in Sophia Antipolis (near Nice),
France.
The company has 6,000 employees worldwide, representing
95
nationalities.
