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TravelTainment UK to launch TravelOffice Agency System
(05/02/2008)

Peterborough, February-5th-2008 – TravelTainment is presenting TravelOffice to the UK market. TT-TravelOffice is TravelTainment’s agency selling system which is based on the same technology as the Internet booking engine TT-IBE. This agent-optimised system provides access to holiday packages and late deals (last minute) of all the major tour operators within milliseconds. Furthermore, charter flights, hotels and insurance quotations can be requested and booked directly online. In Germany more than 6,000 travel agencies use TravelOffice.
The application functionality provides search criteria for a variety of customer preferences, and the fuzzy logic technology automatically suggests alternatives in addition to the primary search results. The travel agent can view tour operators' descriptions as well as TravelTainment's extensive travel content, delivering an unrivalled first-class knowledgeable service to the customer. TravelOffice provides an instant overview of comparison offers from different tour operators for the same package. Through its web-based technology, TravelOffice offers are always up-to-date and in-line with operators own product availability updates. All main Tour Operator Product is included.

Agents will pay a flat monthly fee for access to TravelOffice. The application is easily installed within seconds by downloading onto a PC.

TravelTainment UK is presenting its product range at the Travel Technology Show in London on February 5-6 at Stand B25.




About TravelTainment:
TravelTainment AG, located in Aachen, Germany has been developing software and capturing geographical data since 1991. In 2000 TravelTainment started to focus solely on the travel industry. Following the launch of the TT-IBE in 2003 the application was successfully applied on most of the major travel selling websites in Germany. In addition, travel agents have been supported by a highly efficient consultancy system which is today web-based: TT-TravelOffice is used be several thousand German travel agencies.

TravelTainment (UK) Ltd., located in Peterborough, was formed from the acquisition of Access e-Media Ltd, and relating brand TravelMedia. The market leader for content management and distribution of tour operator brochure holiday descriptions, TravelMedia services are utilised by many UK operators.

TT-UK launched the TT-IBE (Internet Booking Engine) to the UK market in 2007. IBE customers include Expedia and The Cooperative Travel.

The experience gained from the many years in IT plus the vast repository of content held in the shared databases, are together the basis for the unique selling applications and services now available to the UK travel industry.

TravelTainment’s IT systems process several billion travel offers and deliver several terabytes of data each month. This is only possible because of the sophisticated technology employed. This technology extracts selections of travel offers and information from this enormous data pool within milliseconds and then presents it in a user-friendly fashion. A large number of servers, together with a technically mature infrastructure and backup system guarantee the highest possible level of performance and reliability for TravelTainment solutions.

TravelTainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of Amadeus.



Contact
TravelTainment AG
www.traveltainment.co.uk
Illa Eggers
Phone: +49 - (0) 24 05 - 44 84-33
eggers@traveltainment.de


TravelTainment UK Ltd
www.traveltainment.co.uk
Colin Mckee
Phone: 01733 361345
colin.mckee@traveltainment.co.uk