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Amadeus announced that Akbar Travels, one of India’s largest and fastest growing travel agencies, has selected the Amadeus Selling Platform to drive sales in their home market of India and their expansion plans across the Middle East.
K. V. Abdul Nazar, Chairman and MD of Akbar Travels said, “Amadeus’ commitment to the Middle East and its strategic collaboration with the Arab Air Carriers Organisation, coupled with the company’s expertise and leadership in the Indian market, makes it the ideal partner to support our growth in these markets. With the Amadeus Selling Platform, Akbar Travels can access a wider range of more reliable content, and consistently lower fares. This means we can deliver a best-in-class level of customer service which is a crucial factor in our business success. The Platform’s easy to use interface will also help our travel agents to increase productivity and efficiency in their daily operations.”
The Amadeus Selling Platform is the world’s most-used retailing application for travel professionals. Over 90,000 travel agencies worldwide – both offline and online – use the Amadeus system and over 55,000 airline sales office use it as their internal sales and reservations system, with access to over 269 of the world’s leading hotel chains, 25 car rental companies and 95 percent of all scheduled airline seats worldwide, including low-cost carriers. Travel agents can make bookings and issue tickets quickly and easily, and offer a higher level of service through functions such as graphical aircraft seat maps and automatic highlighting of customer preferences.
David Brett, President of Amadeus Asia Pacific said, “As the India and the Middle East markets continue to grow and mature, travel agents will need to make use of technology to differentiate themselves from rivals. Amadeus is delighted to have been selected as the technology partner to support Akbar Travels’ ambitious growth in these markets. Through this partnership and their adoption of the Amadeus Selling Platform, we are confident that Akbar Travels will increase productivity and thus improve their bottom line, as well as deliver greater value for their customers.”
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