Galileo International to deploy the GRSNetwork™ Leisure GUI
Under terms of the agreement with GRS, Galileo can deploy TourExpert to its travel agency base worldwide. TourExpert provides the user with a single, intuitive, interface for booking tours without the need to learn a different coding "language" for each tour supplier. The Windows®-based application interfaces with the Galileo LeisureShopper® platform and allows the user to book tours with any tour operators participating in LeisureShopper.
"This agreement represents our continued commitment to provide innovative business and leisure solutions for our valued partners," said Terry Lazar, GRS' Senior Vice President Business Development. "TourExpert will allow Galileo's subscribers to expand revenues in this lucrative market segment of leisure tour sales. Its' ease-of-use and format also affords the opportunity for less experienced travel agents to serve clients in real time with minimal training."
GRS also has granted Galileo a worldwide license agreement for the Auto Service Fee application (ASF). The ASF application will be modified and distributed initially to travel agencies on Galileo's Apollo® system. Galileo was the first GDS provider to develop and introduce the paperless service fee product in 1999. The ASF application further enhances the product's features by allowing users to selectively choose whether they want to collect only a service fee document or collect a service fee in conjunction with a passenger ticket, or an invoice and/or a back office interface record. Additionally, ASF was designed to allow users to set default values for repetitive information or tasks such as the service-fee amount, the need to print a passenger receipt, and standard remarks for the customer invoice or back-office system. This application will substantially improve the current procedure by reducing the number of entries and by simplifying some existing repetitive processes.
"The ASF application provides our travel agencies with a fully integrated set of Apollo system processes that are flexible and easy to use. One of the key benefits of ASF is the fact that the travel agent can now easily collect a service fee that is fully cross-referenced with a traveler's air ticket in the agency's back-office system," said Randy Shotwell, Galileo's director of Global Agency Products. "Subsequently, if a customer elects not to travel, the air ticket can be voided or refunded while the well-earned service fee remains intact for the agency."
About GRSNetwork
GRSNetwork is an Internet infrastructure technology company providing business-to-business-to consumer (B2B2C) travel and procurement solutions.
GRSNetwork has developed a powerful suite of Internet-based, point-and-click tools that provide travel agents with an alternative to the traditional CRS, including key products such as TravelExpert™, TourExpert™, PrintServer™, IAR Expert™ and CruiseExpert™. Commissionable services such as selling foreign currency, travelers' checks, travel insurance, passport and visa services as well as event ticketing are integrated into the Web-based professional products and offer agencies the ability to increase service and revenues.
GRSNetwork's B2B2C model empowers Internet customers to book air, car, hotel, cruise and tour bookings at any time while allowing agencies to receive full commissions. These transactions are made through agency-branded Web sites supplied by GRSNetwork.
GRSNetwork's products are available in English, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Malay, Japanese, French, German, Dutch, Latin Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.
For more information about GRSNetwork, visit the website at www.grsnetwork.com or call (415) 289-4200.
About Galileo
Galileo International is one of the world's leading providers of electronic global distribution services for the travel industry. The company provides travel agencies, corporate travel managers and Internet users with the ability to book travel by accessing schedule, availability and pricing information. Galileo e-enables the travel industry, providing industry-leading technology solutions such as an advanced suite of wireless applications and numerous Internet initiatives. Through its Internet subsidiary, TRIP.com, the mobile business professional can access premier one-stop online travel services and technology solutions from Galileo. Building one of the largest TCP/IP global networks through its subsidiary Quantitude, Galileo is providing advanced telecommunication services for a variety of customers both in the travel industry and beyond. Headquartered in Rosemont, Ill., USA, Galileo International has offices worldwide and operates its state-of-the-art Data Center in Greenwood Village, Colo., and USA. To learn more about Galileo International, visit http://www.galileo.com.
SOURCE: GRS Network