TQ3 Travel Solutions and Deloitte announce birth of ADVITO

London, 3 February 2004 – TQ3 Travel Solutions, one of the leading global travel management companies, and professional services firm Deloitte, today announced a strategic partnership, which marks a major collaboration between a global travel management company and a leading consulting firm. This partnership, called Advito, will work with multinational companies to drive down their costs of travel. Using experts from both the travel management and consultancy industries, Advito will provide comprehensive advisory, technology and outsourcing services to targeted multinational companies. Announcing the launch of Advito, Marc Hildebrand, Chief Executive Officer of TQ3 Travel Solutions, said: “Travel expense is in the top three controllable expenditures on a company’s profit and loss account and the potential for more focussed travel consulting is largely untapped. Advito is uniquely positioned to provide services that will help our clients manage these costs more effectively.” Advito will provide companies with global consulting services for optimising their travel management processes. A fully integrated programme including, among others, supplier management and process re-engineering, can deliver up to 23% savings from purchased travel and related infrastructure on an annual basis. There is also an opportunity for clients of Advito to capture additional savings through the use of specialised data and technologies implementation, since a large majority of companies do not currently have electronically automated procedures in place for managing their travel arrangements. “In today’s challenging economy we are looking at ways we can help clients enhance their bottom line results. Advito has been launched in response to market demand for a professional services firm to apply core business analysis, procurement and process knowledge to the intricacies of travel,” said Dries de Vaal, Lead Partner for Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure, Deloitte. To learn more about Advito, visit www.advito.com. – END – Notes to editors About TQ3 Travel Solutions TQ3 Travel Solutions is the leading provider of quality, innovative travel expense management solutions to companies worldwide. With system-wide revenues in excess of $9 billion, TQ3 operates 1,600 locations in over 70 countries. For more information about TQ3, please visit our website www.tq3.com. About Deloitte Deloitte & Touche LLP is the UK’s fastest growing major professional services firm based in 21 UK locations, with over 10,000 staff nationwide and fee income of £1,228 million in 2002/2003. It is a member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, a leading professional services organisation, delivering world class audit, tax, consulting and corporate finance services, with around 120,000 people in over 140 countries. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is a Swiss Verein, and each of its national practices is a separate and independent legal entity. For further information about Deloitte and its services and products, please visit our website www.deloitte.co.uk. For further press information please contact: Melanie Garrett, Director of Marketing EMEA TQ3 Travel Solutions Greater London House Hampstead Road London NW1 7HQ Tel: +44 207 153 3333 Mob: +44 7736 105257