Opodo Agreement Brings Millions More Potential Guests To Otedis; Optims' e-business Subsidiary, Hotel Customers

John Ryan, Director Hotels, Opodo commented: “Opodo is committed to providing our customers with the widest possible choice of good value, quality products. This partnership with OTEDIS enables us to offer our discerning travellers a wide range of niche hotels in some of the key destinations in Europe. We are also delighted that in partnering with OTEDIS we are adhering to our philosophy of working together with partners on a supplier-friendly model, building long-term partnerships both with key intermediaries as well as direct to hotels.”

“The partnership with Opodo demonstrates our commitment to meeting the distribution needs of our hotel customers,” explained Pierre Matuchet, Managing director of OTEDIS. “With one agreement we have delivered millions of potential guests who visit Opodo each month to the door of every hotel connected to our reservation system. We are more than happy to offer a new distribution channel for our properties, after the success of Amadeus direct connection we have launched last year. ”

Since it launched in 2001, Opodo has quickly established itself as one of the leading European online travel agencies, with a reputation for delivering good value, quality products. Currently operating in eight European markets, Opodo customers can access deals from nearly 500 airlines, 45,000 hotels, and a worldwide fleet of hire cars, as well as package holidays, charter flights, city breaks, ski offers and a host of value added travel services.

About Opodo | Opodo addresses the real needs of today’s traveller by offering an unbiased and competitively priced online travel service for world travel. With access to flights from nearly 500 airlines, over 45,000 hotel properties, 7,000 car hire locations, package holidays, city breaks, lifestyle holidays, ski deals, comprehensive travel insurance and value added services such as airport parking, with Opodo you really can ‘Travel Your Way’. Opodo was created by nine of Europe's leading airlines - Aer Lingus, Air France, Alitalia, Austrian Airlines, British Airways, Finnair, Iberia, KLM and Lufthansa. Amadeus, the travel technology company based in Madrid, took a 55% controlling interest in the company in June 2004, which increased to 74% in March 2005. Opodo launched its first site () in Germany in 2001, and its UK site () and French site () in 2002. Other companies within the Opodo Group: Quest Travel, (one of the UK’s leading independent long-haul travel specialists), Karavel, (a leading French online tour operating company) Eviaggi (Italian online travel agency) and Travellink (Nordic online travel agency).

About Optims | With 6,500 customers in more than 70 countries, Optims is the European leader in Information Technology solutions dedicated to the optimisation of management methods and revenue in Hospitality, Catering and Tourism. Optims has been serving its clients with three complementary technologies. These include Property Management Systems (PMS), Yield Management Solutions known as Revenue Management Systems and Central Reservation Systems (CRS). Otedis, Optims’ subsidiary dedicated to e-business for the Hospitality industry, is in charge of the CRS offer. Initially created as an online catalogue for hotels in France, Italy and Spain, Otedis is today a virtual hotel chain made of 4,000 hotels (2,000 using the real time reservation technology). Amadeus, one of the worlds leading global distribution system (GDS), owns 100% of Optims. More information is available at: