Meet the sponsors
Amadeus is the chosen technology partner for providers, sellers, and buyers of travel. The company provides distribution, IT and point-of-sale solutions to help its customers adapt, grow and succeed in the fast changing travel industry. Customer groups include travel providers (airlines, hotels, car rental companies, railway companies, ferry lines, cruise lines, insurance companies and tour operators), travel sellers (travel agencies) and travel buyers (corporations and travellers). Solutions are grouped in four solution categories – Distribution & Content, Sales & e-Commerce, Business Management and Services & Consulting. The Amadeus system allows close to 84,000 travel agency locations and more than 27,170 airline offices to make bookings on some 500 airlines. It provides access to nearly 73,000 hotel properties and 27 car rental companies serving close to 35,700 locations.
Amadeus has central sites in Madrid (corporate headquarters & marketing), Nice (development) and Erding (Operations – data processing centre) and regional offices in Miami, Buenos Aires and Bangkok. At market level, Amadeus maintains customer operations in 76 countries covering more than 215 markets.
The company is majority owned by WAM Acquisition, whose shareholders are BC Partners, Cinven, Air France, Iberia and Lufthansa. Amadeus employs over 7,600 employees worldwide, representing 95 nationalities. Amadeus’ revenue for the six months year ended 30 June 2007 was EUR 1,534.1 million.
More information about Amadeus is available at: www.amadeus.com
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Comtec travel technology helps to make the business of selling and managing travel simpler, more productive and highly cost effective. 
Doyoutravel.com is the first travel focused social networking website which provides a completely free tool for businesses to use to promote their services straight to the consumer. The site encourages companies to promote themselves directly to consumers through classified ads, videos, blogs and profiles as well as link to individual websites.
Mark Garwell, one of the creators of Doyoutravel.com said: "With Doyoutravel.com we have removed the myths of social network marketing and the barriers to entry for business. Businesses now have a free to use fully editable content management system and direct access to one of the fastest growing travel communities on the internet. Companies using Doyoutravel.com can be as social or introverted as they like and interact with others or just publish private travel content on a dedicated web space.
iCrossing, formerly know as Spannerworks in the UK, is a global digital marketing company that combines talent and technology to help world-class brands attract, engage with and acquire customers.
Find out more at www.icrossing.co.uk or contact us on +44 (0)1273 828100 or results@icrossing.co.uk.
Jumeirah properties are regarded as among the most luxurious and innovative in the world and have won numerous international travel and tourism awards. The company was founded in 1997 with the aim to become a hospitality industry leader through establishing a world class portfolio of luxury hotels and resorts.
Jumeirah’s core essence to STAY DIFFERENT™ promises guests experiences that are as unique and innovative as the brand itself. It recognises the distinctiveness of luxury travellers and the importance of personal experiences in their lives.
Latitude is a multi-award winning digital marketing agency. We can help you win new customers, accelerate revenues and build your brand on the Internet.
We have developed our own accredited technology and the passion and professionalism of our people gives you world class management of your paid and natural search marketing campaigns, display advertising and social media strategies.
Contact us to discuss how to improve your marketing return.
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Puregenie.com was established to cater for the increasing demand for talented people with specific online skills in the online travel environment. Our clients are businesses who either specialise in online travel, or who are looking to boost their online capabilities within the travel, leisure and hospitality industry. The online jobs we recruit for on behalf of our travel clients include: online marketers; e-marketing managers; search engine marketing experts; pay per click campaign managers (PPC Managers); search engine optimisation specialists (SEO Managers); CRM and e-CRM managers; web analysts; online account managers; online business development managers; white label specialists; customer acquisition managers; customer insight managers; all round e-commerce managers; project managers; programme managers; affiliate marketers; web masters and many more.
Puregenie is backed by the highly respected travel specialist headhunting firm Gail Kenny Executive Search Limited - www.gailkenny.com
Travelmarket enters the UK market.
The Scandinavian based travel search engine www.travelmarket.com is now officially launched in the UK, and the company has a special offer for the travel trade.
The dynamic booking engine is for both IATA and NON-IATA, and it makes multiple searching in several reservation systems at the same time.
“We want to offer the UK travel agencies and tour-operators as many benefits as possible, and we have more than 150 website customers in Scandinavia. Now we will offer our web and booking solutions to companies in the UK travel trade” – says CEO Ole Stouby from Travelmarket.
TripAdvisor is the largest travel community in the world, with more than 25 million monthly visitors, five million registered members and 10 million reviews and opinions. Featuring real advice from real travellers, TripAdvisor-branded sites cover 280,000+ hotels and attractions TripAdvisor® provides travel suppliers with graphical advertising opportunities and a cost-per-click marketing platform.
To find out about sponsorship opportunities please contact Charlotte Davies on 020 8652 3860 or email charlotte.davies@rbi.co.uk