Amadeus announced it has reached an agreement with Avis Europe, the car rental company in Europe, Africa the Middle East and Asia, to offer direct links from Amadeus e-Travel Management (Aergo) thus enhancing the…
Amadeus announced it has reached an agreement with Avis Europe, the car rental company in Europe, Africa the Middle East and Asia, to offer direct links from Amadeus e-Travel Management (Aergo) thus enhancing the content offer already available through the self booking solution. The new functionality is called “e-Direct Connect for cars”.
“With this functionality, corporations benefit from seamless integration with the TMC’s back-office, a single PNR, while at the same time gaining access to the full range of content and pricing that goes having a direct link to the car rental company,” explains David Brett, President, Amadeus Asia Pacific.
Corporations signing up to “e-Direct Connect for cars” will benefit from the following features:
- Integrated shopping basket experience including direct car reservations along with flight, hotel and rail services
- Seamless connectivity to the inventory and rates of the content provider of their choice
- Multiple parallel direct links search
- Access to airport and non-airport car office locations
- Direct invoicing via unique billing reference number
- PNR integration on a range of travel distribution systems
Travel Management Companies will be able to offer all these features to their corporate customers and will be able to view the bookings made by their customers via the direct link.
This agreement will give corporations using Amadeus e-Travel Management the highest level of connectivity to our inventory and rates at over 2,900 locations in the 108 countries where Avis globally operates, says Peter Verhoeven, Director of Sales for Avis Group.
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