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Farelogix and PASS Consulting Partnership Results in Best of Breed Multi-sourced Point of Sale Application to the Travel Industry Marketplace
July 6, 2005
MIAMI
Farelogix Inc., a leading provider of independent faring and multi-source distribution technology to the global travel industry, and Miami-based PASS Consulting, a leading travel technology vendor, announced today that they plan to market and distribute the PASS Virtual Travel Organizer (VTO) travel agency point of sale application (POS) as a preferred POS integrated with the Farelogix FLX™ Platform. The partnership will provide travel service providers full control to manage content from all sources GDS sources, direct supplier connections, web connections, and a variety of private sourced databases.
PASS Consulting is a leading developer of independent multi-GDS applications, serving as a point of sale tool for travel agents, travel brokers, and travel departments within companies. VTO combines outstanding flexibility with many additional features including integrated customer profiling, individualized look and feel on the web, customizable workflow, on screen profit margins, and synchronized web and GDS native interfaces. With its unique multi-GDS capabilities, VTO solves the challenges of multi-source customer servicing and agent training with the easy to use, fully integrated system.
With this partnership, Farelogix delivers a complete full service agency point of sale solution that is fully integrated with the FLX™ Platform allowing travel agencies full control for content aggregation from multi-GDS sources, direct supplier connections, web connections, and a variety of private sourced databases.
VTO is a perfect match for Farelogix, said Jim Davidson, CEO of Farelogix. There is a compelling need in the industry for a multi-source, independent agency point of sale application and we see VTO as one of the best available. Allowing travel agency operations to manage all sources of content provided by the FLX platform is critical to their future success, and the VTO technology is independent of any one specific data source and can be used to manage all the required point of sale functionality.
Davidson continued, Through our FLX™ Technology Platform we provide total flexibility and control to our customers by enabling easy access and integration of multiple sources of travel content. VTO enhances the presentation of this content while providing the most robust GDS independent point of sale application available.
PASS is very enthusiastic about our partnership with Farelogix. Having access to multi-sourced content while allowing the travel agency to control the management of where bookings are done is a significant added value at the point of sale, said Michael Strauss, CEO of PASS Consulting Corporation and Director of Travel Mgt. Solutions Worldwide. Strauss continued With VTO we see the opportunity of becoming the industry standard virtual graphical user front end for agents, regardless of GDS affiliation. A self booking tool is also available ensuring easy interaction between traveler and agent.
About Farelogix
Farelogix is a leading provider of lower-cost, multi-source distribution and independent faring technology to the global travel industry. The companys FLX™ platform aggregates content from all four major Global Distribution Systems, as well as airline, private and Internet fare sources, while its sophisticated pricing technology enables comparative shopping across sources. Farelogix was founded in 1998 and counts among its customers some of the largest travel companies in Canada and the United States including Navigant International, American Express and Carlson Leisure Group Services. Farelogix has offices in Toronto, Canada and Miami, Florida. For additional information, visit www.farelogix.com.
About PASS Consulting
Miami-based PASS Consulting Corporation is an end-to-end technology product and service provider meeting the needs travel industry customers such as Amadeus, E-Travel, Omega World Travel, MSC Cruises, Brendan Worldwide Tours, Worldspan, Galileo, Travelport, Thomas Cook, MTS Travel, Discovery Travel Systems, Farelogix, OnVantage, Vodafone, E-Plus, Hotelexpress, Lufthansa and Unique Vacations. PASS was founded in 1981 in Germany and now has more than 650 employees worldwide with revenues in excess of $100 million. More information about PASS Consulting is available on the Web at www.PASS-consulting.com/usa or by calling (305) 269 6975.
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Media Contacts:
Jodi Echakowitz
Echo Communications on behalf of Farelogix
Telephone: 905-709-9600
E-mail: press@farelogix.com
Kate Koziol
K Squared Communications, Inc. on behalf of PASS Consulting
Telephone: 773-412-6840
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