TQ3 TRAVEL SOLUTIONS AND E-TRAVEL EXPAND GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP

Major travel players create multinational alliance to deliver corporate online booking solutions.

14 January 2003, Madrid – TQ3 Travel Solutions, one of the world’s largest providers of travel management services, and e-Travel, the global leader in online travel solutions and the e-commerce unit of Amadeus GTD, today announced a strategic partnership whereby TQ3 will provide e-Travel’s online self-booking tools to its corporate customers around the world.

TQ3 Travel Solutions will become a global reseller of e-Travel’s broad range of powerful online booking solutions. These solutions include e-Travel® Aergo and SAP Travel Management, designed for easy deployment in local markets worldwide.

The agreement springs from the existing global technology and business partnership between Amadeus and the TUI travel group. TQ3 is 50 per cent owned by TUI AG. Amadeus currently provides TUI with leading edge global distribution and e-commerce solutions, all supported on a common platform.

Today e-Travel and TQ3 already share an impressive roster of blue chip customers using e-Travel Aergo or SAP Travel Management, including DaimlerChrysler.

“Corporations are increasingly aware that focusing on travel is one of the most effective ways for them to cut costs,” said Ian Wheeler, managing director of e-Travel. “Our partnership with TQ3 deepens both companies’ commitments to delivering corporations solutions and services that significantly benefit their bottom line.”

“TQ3’s big focus has always been to provide our customers with swift and sure results,” said Jon Farrier, TQ3’s Chief Information Officer EMEA. “e-Travel’s proven solutions and global reach are a complement to our existing services and tangibly enhance our customer services across the globe.”

These e-Travel products include:
· e-Travel Aergo: The most widely deployed online solution for global managed travel. Aergo enables corporations and their travel agent partners to book ‘policy compliant’ travel itineraries covering air, rail, car and hotel bookings.
· SAP Travel Management: The world’s only integrated self-service corporate travel management solution for SAP, combining travel planning and policy with accounting, finance, payroll and human resource systems.

e-Travel is a leading global provider of online travel technology and business unit of Amadeus. It provides e-commerce solutions for airlines, corporations, travel agencies, and other online travel businesses, and is dedicated to its customers’ net success. e-Travel serves customers in more than 90 countries, including corporations like Airbus, DaimlerChrysler, Gateway, Inc., Ingersoll-Rand Company, Oracle Corporation and Philip Morris Companies, as well as travel suppliers such as Air France, Iberia and Qantas.

Parent company Amadeus Global Travel Distribution SA is a leading global distribution system (GDS) and technology provider serving the marketing, sales, and distribution needs of the world’s travel and tourism industries. e-Travel is a registered trademark of e-Travel Inc., an Amadeus company. For more information about e-Travel, please visit www.etravel.com.

TQ3 Travel Solutions, with global headquarters in Bremen, Germany, and EMEA-APAC headquarters in London, UK, is the quality provider of innovative end-to-end travel expense management solutions worldwide. Operating in over 60 countries with system-wide revenues in excess of $9 billion USD, TQ3 Travel Solutions employs more than 12,000 business professionals throughout 1,600 locations. TQ3 has reinvigorated the global business travel market through its progressive approach to Strategy, Innovation and Performance.

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For further information, please contact:
Melanie Garrett, Director of Marketing EMEA
Tel: +44 (0) 7736 105257 / +44 (0) 1279 636310
Fax: +44 (0) 1279 636333
[email protected]