1. Amadeus e-Power Consolidator
Empower your affiliates, drive your business
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2. 1
Introduction

3. Your needs
If you’re looking for a distribution platform that enables you to :
Maximise your distribution reach
Counter back shrinking revenues and margins
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Manage and control efficiently your network
Ensure your travel agents quick and reliable access to the relevant fares
Then look no further…
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4. Empower your affiliates, drive your business
For consortia, consolidators and distributors with a sales dedicated network of non-IATA agencies, selling, advising and servicing both leisure and business travellers.
Amadeus e-Power Consolidator is the easy to deploy online platform enabling you to boost and drive your business performance while servicing your affiliated agencies. It comes also with the most intuitive interface and relevant content for your business.
Unlike current available solutions Amadeus e-Power Consolidator enables you to fully manage your network and hierarchical structure with the relevant revenue management tools including secondary level service fee and mark- up settings.

5. What our customers say Jorge Lamirán President of Aquatravel
“Travel agencies value the speed and flexibility of Amadeus e-Power Consolidator. With this solution we offer our customers a tool that allows them to compete with large agencies.”
Jorge Lamirán
President of Aquatravel

6. Amadeus e-Power Consolidator
Empower your affiliates, drive your business
Because what’s good for your affiliated agencies is good for you, Amadeus e-Power Consolidator provides your network with the best sought features both at sales and management levels.
Amadeus e-Power Consolidator
Maximise your distribution reach
Ensure higher margins and more revenue
Manage and control efficiently your network
Easy to deploy
Quick & easy to operate
Reduce your operational costs
Make the most of advanced revenue management features
Support your network by providing relevant content
Manage your credit levels and payments
Streamline your performance through hierarchical business logic management
Benefit from accurate reporting

7. 2
Continuous improvements
8.1 key features

8. Click and sell more with the new user interface!
Facilitate both booking and customisation
New appealing look and feel
Short booking flow:
Plan (your Trip),
Check-out
Confirmation
Redesigned flight + hotel booking flow
Total price displayed with the savings including an additional discount for the simultaneous flight+hotel
Consolidators: developp your network and provide a quicker access to the relevant fares
Travel agents: Clearer and easer search and book, focus on selling
Administrators: easy and fast site maintenance

9. Calendars with extended views
Easy to identify two months overview with holiday periods per selected zone
Consolidators: Provide a quicker access to the relevant fares
Travel agents: new revenue opportunities

10. Dynamic cross-sell
Contextual proposal of hotels and cars in the shopping basket page, once a flight is selected
Consolidators: Provide a quicker access to the relevant fares
Travel agents: new revenue opportunities

11. Satisfy customers with an enriched proposal of alternatives
Quotation module
Display of trip proposals for flights, hotels and LCC
Retrieval by the traveller:
(.pdf)
checkmytrip.com
Checkmytrip mobile app,
Retrieval by the agent in the system (or in Selling Platform) and confirmation into a booking in a single transaction.
Integration of unique Amadeus Offers
Consolidators: synchronised management of customers’ requests
Travel agents: increased productivity and revenues, replacement of time consuming workarounds
Travellers: enhanced customer satisfaction

12. Improve payment processes and allow storing travel agencies’ credit cards in the system
Payment rule module
Define payment rules to attach credit card methods to predefined providers, depending on:
content,
carrier
or affiliated agency
Consolidators: stay in control of your credit levels and payments while giving more flexibility
Travel agents: save time and increase flexibility

13. 3
Maximise your distribution reach

14. Maximise your distribution reach
Easy to deploy
Web based solution : access is provided through a work station with internet and a web browser making it convenient for agents to work from their office or home
All upgrades are done automatically
Minimum training sufficient: even novice users can make the full use of e-Power consolidator in a matter of days
Possibility for agencies to self-register as sub-agents
Good for your network

15. Good for your affilated agencies
Maximise your distribution reach
Smooth user experience
Fully customisable user interface
Easy & quick to operate
Intuitive and guided booking flow
Consistent navigation and user experience
Good for your affilated agencies

16. Maximise your distribution reach
Easy to deploy at minimum cost
Hierarchical administration of the travel agency groups
Possibility to configure your global business logic at your HQ level
Group layers to facilitate affiliated agencies’ network handling
At the travel agency level, specific business logics can be developed to support your processes
Each agency can manage their multiple booking users
No investment in software, hardware, network or hosting is required
Good for your network

17. 4
Ensure higher margins and generate more revenues

18. First level service fee/mark-up Second level service fee/mark-up
Ensure higher margins and generate more revenues
Advanced revenue management features
Customise your solution to manage service fees, mark-ups and discounts according to your policy with:
Hierarchical business logic between your headquarters and affiliated agencies with additional group level management,
Secondary level service fee and mark up settings.
Provider
Headquarters
Net fare
Network’s fare
Affiliated agencies
Traveller
Affiliated agency fare
First level service fee/mark-up
Second level service fee/mark-up
Good for your headquarters
Good for your affilated agencies

19. Good for your affilated agencies
Ensure higher margins and generate more revenues
Support your network with relevant content
Provide both aggregated GDS and non-GDS content on:
>> Air: more than 500 airlines connected directly to Amadeus + 35 airlines connected via third party aggregator
>> Hotels: GDS properties of which 90% ensure the best availability rates + 5 external aggregators or providers of aggregator content
>> Cars: 30 rental companies which translate to rental locations in 250 countries
>> Insurance: 40 of the most prominent insurance providers worldwide
>> Your network’s negotiated content
Detail of the hotel content: Real-time sourced content from multiple providers including:
Amadeus GDS (90’800+ properties)
and seamlessly integrated non-GDS content
PGoGlobal (150’000 properties)
PContent Inn with notably:
PGTA, Hotelbeds, Transhotel, Tourico, etc.
PHotelsPro (95’000 properties)
PGateway ( 250’000 properties)
PTBO/Content Store (100’000 properties)
Good for your affilated agencies

20. Good for your affilated agencies
Ensure higher margins and generate more revenues
Support your network with relevant content
Smooth integration of external providers through the unique Amadeus Integrated partners framework
No development needed for each provider
Development is done by the provider itself
Amadeus provides functional and technical support
Suggestion: While Amadeus provides functional and technical support, the integration of external content is primarily done by the providers themselves
Good for your affilated agencies

21. Good for your affilated agencies
Ensure higher margins and generate more revenues
Together with relevant features
Cheapest and most reliable fares with the leading low-fare search product Amadeus Master Pricer and up to 250 air recommendations in a single transaction
Possibility to search simultaneously for different products within the same booking
Merged display itineraries for GDS and low cost carrier air content (one way combinable fares)
While Amadeus provides functional and technical support, the integration of external content is primarily done by the providers themselves
Good for your affilated agencies

22. 5
Manage and control efficiently your network

23. Good for your headquarters
Manage and control efficiently your network
Manage efficiently your credit levels and payments
Control the credit limit offered to affiliated agencies when invoicing payment through the administration module
Limit the maximum number of tickets that can be created by an affiliated agency for a certain period of time
Manage roles and permissions for all affiliated agency users
Grant limited administration rights to an agent or create a “booking role” to selected affiliated agency users
Good for your headquarters

24. Manage and control efficiently your network
Streamline your performance
Implement a hierarchical business logic between the network and affiliated agencies with additional group level management
Manage more efficiently sub-agents’ skills and time: while some focus on selling travel, your headquarters can perform more complex tasks, such as ticketing, changes, etc., using the automatic e-ticketing facility for instant ticketing.
Good for your headquarters
Good for your affilated agencies

25. Manage and control efficiently your network
Rely on accurate reporting
Each booking is tracked via the reporting tool enabling integrated reporting with real time information on created PNRs, saved commissions, credit limit balance as well as service fee markups, for each affiliated agency
Good for your network

26. Pricing / ordering procedure
Pricing scheme consists of:
Set-up fee
License fee – charged monthly
Additional modules’ fees
Transaction costs
Custom fees for bespoke developments

27. Competitive positioning
The best distribution platform for headquarters and their affiliated agencies
Amadeus e-Power Consolidator provides networks with the most adapted online distribution platform including the relevant management features adapted to a hierarchical structure as well as double layer service fees and mark-ups.

28. FAQs Q Q In which markets is Amadeus e-Power consolidator launched?
Amadeus e-Power Consolidator is currently deployed for customers in Canada, US, Spain, France, Turkey, Yemen, Gulf & Jordan
Upcoming globalisation is closely linked to product assessment as well as to the readiness of the markets in terms of implementation and support. Q
What if I have affiliates in markets where it is not launched?
Please check check with your local Amadeus Sales representative.

29. Benefits for your network

30. High-level roadmap 8.2* 9.01* 9.0* 9.1* Q4 13 Q1 14 Q1 14 Q2 14
Online help for admin
SNCF integration for France
Amadeus Mini rules
Hotel module improvements
B2B2C module
New Ancillary Services (Phase 1)
Car module improvements
Q4 13
8.2*
Q1 14
9.01*
Q1 14
9.0*
Hotel Multisource integration
New payment services via Amadeus payment server
Localisation for Italy
Gestour Integration for France
New Ancillary Services (phase 2)
Buffer for new consolidator launch
Ticketless Access integration
Air user generated content
Buffer for new consolidator launch
Q2 14
9.1* 30
* All release content to be confirmed 30

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