TRAVEL technology leader Amadeus has become an official global reseller of all conTgo mobile solutions, integrating conTgo products into its corporate product portfolio and marketing and selling those solutions to existing and prospective Amadeus customers.
The deal will enable the Amadeus Mobile Travel Assistant solution to be made instantly available to all travel management companies and corporations that use Amadeus technology to book and manage their corporate travel. Mobile Travel Assistant distributes relevant travel information directly to travellers’ mobile phones. This includes ground transportation and hotel details and any location-specific information identified by the traveller’s employer or travel management company.
Mobile Travel Assistant significantly increases the safety of corporate travellers as it provides specific warnings and global risk information to selected travellers. In the case of emergency or during crisis situations, it allows companies to effectively communicate with travellers through a graphical and informative user interface. At the same time, the service allows for genuine cost savings by ensuring improved compliance to the defined travel policies.
Furthermore, customers can use the unique MapCast module to create a visual overview of all travel activity in the company. The corporation can communicate directly with travellers from the map interface, using a combination of itinerary filtering and geo-spatial selection. MapCast can be opened from anywhere using a normal web browser and regular Internet access and works for any booking imported into Mobile Travel Assistant.
Albert Pozo, director multinational business and corporate travel Amadeus, said: “Corporations and TMCs require technology that considers duty of care to staff, corporate travel policy restrictions and cost saving objectives. Mobile Travel Assistant is tried and tested and works faultlessly worldwide. Furthermore, conTgo’s outstanding performance during disruption events such as the volcanic ash cloud crisis, the December snow chaos and the Queensland flooding is a strong sign of its bandwidth and capability to deliver superior service to our joint customers.”