Colombo to host Amadeus regional conference

Shirajiv SIRIMANE

CONFERENCE: Amadeus one of the leading aviation and travel booking systems is hoping to hold their regional conference in Sri Lanka the Head of Corporate Communications, Amedeus India, Karun Budhraja said.

He said that Sri Lanka is a very important market for them in the region. “The sales are increasing rapidly and

 this is very pleasing and this is one reason for us to look at holding this event in Colombo,” he said.

There would be over 200 participants and their spouses for this three day event,” he said. Sri Lanka will be using e tickets by the end of 2007 and this would help the airlines to save nearly US $ 7 per ticket. He said that this would also help 15 percent of their costs to low cost airlines.

The introduction of e tickets would help travel agents to reduce paper work, transport costs and help the passenger to save valuable time now loss when issue airline tickets.

The Colombo airport staff and security officers have been already educated as to how the e tickets would work.

Amadeus in India has always been at the forefront of travel technology providing the very best in this field.

The new genre of online travel is fast sweeping the nation and Amadeus is right there in the leadership slot empowering all major players who at present account for almost 65% of total online travel in India.