Brazil’s LAHotels selects Amadeus to deliver multiproperty PMS

Established in 2007, LAHotels is the third largest hotel company in Brazil, with 27 hotels in operation to date – most of them branded as Tulip Inn and Golden Tulip Hotels. The rollout to the initial set of hotels is set to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2009.

The multiproperty installation will be hosted through LAHotels’ data-centre in Sao Paulo, and will include a bundle of features available through Amadeus Hotel PMS, including front office, conference management, sales & marketing, and interfaces for local third party systems. The solution will be available in Brazilian Portuguese.

“We have selected Amadeus as our technology partner due to their expertise, global reach and a track-record of delivering complex projects,” Peter van Voorst Vader, CEO, LAHotels. “As we continue to expand, we plan to bring our new properties onto the Amadeus platform as well – both in Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America.”

Amadeus multiproperty PMS provides a single view of availability across properties, as well as comprehensive insights into individual guest preferences, enabling hotel staff to provide personalised experience to their guests and improve yield management.

“Despite the current challenging economic times, Brazil is well poised for tourism growth, and we are looking forward to nurturing and growing our partnership with LAHotels,” said Wolfgang Emperger, Director International Sales, Amadeus Hospitality.

About Amadeus Hotel IT

Amadeus has served the global hospitality industry for over 20 years, supporting hotels' distribution and technology needs. Amadeus employs over 170 dedicated hotel specialists covering every aspect of development, delivery and support of hospitality technology solutions. Our comprehensive, scalable portfolio of advanced management systems includes: Amadeus Hotel Platform, an above-property single source solution for next generation hotel, reservations and distribution technology focused on single image inventory, single view of the guest and enhanced merchandising.

Amadeus also provides revenue management and global distribution systems, including the Amadeus Hotel Platform-Revenue Management.

Currently, Amadeus Hotel IT solutions are being used by 1,500 customers in 35 countries.
For more information, please visit www.amadeus.com/hotelit

About Amadeus

Amadeus is a leading transaction processor and provider of advanced technology solutions for the global travel and tourism industry.

Customer groups include travel providers (e.g. airlines, hotels, rail, ferries, etc.), travel sellers (travel agencies and websites), and travel buyers (corporations and individual travellers).

The group operates a transaction-based business model and processed 850 million billable travel transactions in 2010.

Amadeus has central sites in Madrid (corporate headquarters and marketing), Nice (development) and Erding (Operations – data processing centre) and regional offices in Miami, Buenos Aires, Bangkok and Dubai. At a market level, Amadeus maintains customer operations through 73 local Amadeus Commercial Organisations covering 195 countries.

Amadeus is listed on the Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao and Valencia stock exchanges and trades under the symbol "AMS.MC". For the year ended 31 December 2010, the company reported revenues of EUR 2,683 million and EBITDA of EUR 1,015 million. The Amadeus group employs around 10,000 employees worldwide, with 123 nationalities represented at the central offices.

To find out more about Amadeus please go to www.amadeus.com.

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