21st April 2009, Renaissance Chancery Court, London

Meet the sponsors

Amadeus is the chosen technology partner for providers, sellers, and buyers of travel. The company provides distribution, IT and point-of-sale solutions to help its customers adapt, grow and succeed in the fast changing travel industry. Customer groups include travel providers (airlines, hotels, car rental companies, railway companies, ferry lines, cruise lines, insurance companies and tour operators), travel sellers (travel agencies) and travel buyers (corporations and travellers). Solutions are grouped in four solution categories – Distribution & Content, Sales & e-Commerce, Business Management and Services & Consulting.
 
The Amadeus system allows close to 84,000 travel agency locations and more than 27,170 airline offices to make bookings on some 500 airlines. It provides access to nearly 73,000 hotel properties and 27 car rental companies serving close to 35,700 locations.
 
Amadeus has central sites in Madrid (corporate headquarters & marketing), Nice (development) and Erding (Operations – data processing centre) and regional offices in Miami, Buenos Aires and Bangkok. At market level, Amadeus maintains customer operations in 76 countries covering more than 215 markets.
The company is majority owned by WAM Acquisition, whose shareholders are BC Partners, Cinven, Air France, Iberia and Lufthansa. Amadeus employs over 7,600 employees worldwide, representing 95 nationalities. Amadeus’ revenue for the six months year ended 30 June 2007 was EUR 1,534.1 million.
More information about Amadeus is available at: www.amadeus.com
 

The dynamic nature of today’s travel market presents a number of new challenges and opportunities for travel operators of all sizes. To succeed in this increasingly complex and competitive environment, a trusted solutions partner who offers a comprehensive solution, and also meets the needs of your business today and into the future, is a must.
 
Over the past six years, we have recruited specialists who have a combined 500 years travel and technology experience, thus ensuring BlueSky Travel Systems has a pivotal position in the travel sector - the result of which is a revolutionary product for today's diverse travel industry – itour.
 
itour, is a market leading reservation system, enabling tour operators and online travel retailers to improve inventory management, operate multi-distribution channels, dynamically package and price holidays and maximise yield. itour is a highly scalable product, and is aimed at travel operators of all sizes.  It has been built by BlueSky using a combination of industry leading third party technology, Oracle and Java. It is complimented by a unique management information system called insight based upon Business Objects.
itour - Powering the travel business forward
 
Since 1997 more and more of the world’s top travel brands have looked to Fortune Cookie to boost their online conversions, bookings and acquisition rates.
 
Websites designed by Fortune Cookie are findable, usable and beautiful. We can help you to smash your sales targets, deepen your relationships with customers, and even carry off a suitcase full of prestigious industry awards.
 
So whether you measure ROI in yen, dollars, euros or pounds we’ll make sure the figures all add up.
 
For over 50 years, Frommer's travel guides have been the trusted choice to help travelers explore destinations the way the locals do. Frommer’s Unlimited enables businesses to create high-value propositions for their customers by leveraging Frommer’s travel expertise, rich content resources and technical capabilities. Products and services provided by Frommer’s Unlimited include global destination and events content, private label Websites, mobile applications and custom publishing.
 
Whether your customers are venturing close to home or across the globe, whether your budget is limited or limitless, Frommer’s Unlimited delivers the most candid and reliable travel and event information, anywhere and anytime. 
  • Destination Guides
  • Global Events
  • Custom Publishing
  • Multimedia Delivery Services
  • Online Advertising and Sponsorships
  • Private Label Websites and End-to-End Solutions  
Frommer’s Unlimited. One Source. Endless Possibilities.
www.Frommers.biz Whatsonwhen is now Frommer’s Unlimited.
 iCrossing is a world-leading digital marketing agency. Ranked by Forrester Research in its most recent Search Wave Report as the best for both paid search and SEO, it puts its search expertise together with the most advanced social media framework in the market to deliver digital marketing strategies that truly account for customers’ online behaviour.
 
 
iCrossing’s view is that businesses that understand the fundamental shift that has taken place as we move from broadcast channels to online networks - and that begin to live and be valued in their customers’ networks - will succeed. These are what we call 'connected brands'. Search and social media are fundamental to this connected approach as they enable the conversation and navigation that defines online behaviour. Thus, we believe that to understand search and social is to truly understand the web.
 
 
Based on these foundations, iCrossing blends natural search (SEO), paid search, social media, content, display advertising, user experience, web development, and analytics & insight to build connected online marketing strategies for brands that include Channel 4, Lynx/Axe, MORE TH>N, Toyota, HBoS, Porsche, Cornhill Direct, Cheapflights, Kiddicare, Lipsy, Virgin Atlantic, Travelocity, and STA Travel.
 
 
iCrossing UK – formerly Spannerworks - is owned by iCrossing Inc, one of the largest digital agencies in the US, and has 110 UK staff working out of offices in London and Brighton.  Find out more at www.icrossing.co.uk or contact us on +44 (0)1273 828100 or results@icrossing.co.uk
 
Jumeirah Hotels & Resorts are regarded as among the most luxurious and innovative in the world and have won numerous international travel and tourism awards. The company was founded in 1997 with the aim to become a hospitality industry leader through establishing a world class portfolio of luxury hotels and resorts. Building on this success, in 2004 Jumeirah Group became a member of Dubai Holding - a collection of leading Dubai-based businesses and projects - in line with a new phase of growth and development for the Group.
 
The Group’s activities are, however, not restricted to hotel and resort management. The Jumeirah Group portfolio also includes Jumeirah Living, the Group’s luxury brand of serviced residences offering effortless living in luxurious surroundings; global spa brand Talise Wellness; The Taste Department, the company’s dedicated restaurant division; Wild Wadi water park; The Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management, the region’s only fully accredited third-level academic institution delivering specialised degree programmes in hospitality management; and Jumeirah Retail, with its 15 stores and dedicated luxury online store www.jumeirahcollection.com
 
Platform-A is made up of the UK’s leading properties in the digital marketing arena. We allow marketers to harness the full power of digital media advertising with a guiding principle of delivering measurable results driven by the world’s best technologies. Platform-A reaches 87.7% of the UK internet population (32m people, comScore, Dec 2009).  
 
We deliver solutions across the breadth of the digital landscape from branded content experiences to direct-response and behavioural targeting to search, mobile and affiliate marketing. It’s not a case of ‘one-size fits all’, we build bespoke solutions for our clients who benefit from having one point of contact for all their digital marketing needs.
 

www.puregenie.com is the leading recruitment agency in the online travel sector, and is backed by the highly respected travel specialist headhunting firm Gail Kenny Executive Search. We cater for the increasing demand for talented people with specific online travel skills on behalf of our clients - Expedia, Virgin, Opodo, Trip Advisor to name a few. The types of roles that we recruit for on behalf of our travel clients include online marketers, SEM/SEO/PPC experts, CRM and e-CRM managers, web analysts, online account and sales managers, customer acquisition and insight managers, all round e-commerce managers, project and programme managers, affiliate marketers, webmasters, web designers and many more.

Certain areas of the travel industry are more specialised than others and this is particularly true for travel technology. SKYPATH was established in 2001 as an IT recruitment specialist within the travel industry. SKYPATH has a team of consultants that specialise in travel technology; our clients include GDSs, technology solution providers, online travel agencies and IT departments. Our dynamic and proactive approach to this marketplace enables us to position candidates in software development, testing, design, project management, implementation, analysis, sales and training. SKYPATH has gained an impeccable reputation and grown organically over the past few years thanks to repeat business and trust. Our number one aim is to connect candidates seeking to further their careers with clients wanting to improve their resources.

We look forward to seeing you at the Summit.

Specific Media, the advertising industry's largest independent online advertising network, leads the industry with ground-breaking technology which enables advertisers to target consumers throughout Western Europe and North America based on demographics, behaviours, geographic locations and the contextual relevance of websites visited.
 
The combination of reach and proprietary targeting technologies allows Specific Media to create highly customised unique audience segments for advertisers and offers the opportunity to deliver maximum impact campaigns through network and category takeovers. Specific Media’s advanced in-house technology displays adverts to the relevant audience and avoids wasted impressions on the wrong customers. 
 
Travel has become a tailor-made, customisable experience for the individual rather than a 'one size fits all' package. Specific Media’s approach to delivering a unique user-focused online experience mirrors this; as leading partner to travel marketers, we develop tailored campaigns to meet advertisers’ unique needs through network and category takeovers. Since 1999, Specific Media has been enabling advertisers to build relationships with their target audiences across the top consumer branded publishers.

 

 

 

Travelzoo (Europe) Ltd is the European subsidiary of Travelzoo Inc. (NASDAQ: TZOO), a global Internet media company. With more than 15 million subscribers in the U.K., the U.S., Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Spain and Taiwan, Travelzoo® publishes offers from more than 1,000 advertisers. Travelzoo's deal experts review each offer to find the best travel deals and confirm their true value. Travelzoo's media properties include the Travelzoo® Web site (www.travelzoo.com), the Top 20® list, the Newsflash™ e-mail alert service, the Travelzoo Network™, the SuperSearch™ search tool, and the Fly.com™ search engine.

 TripAdvisor is the largest travel community in the world, with more than 25 million monthly visitors, nine million registered members and 20 million reviews and opinions. Featuring real advice from real travellers, TripAdvisor-branded sites cover 300,000+ hotels and attractions. TripAdvisor® provides travel suppliers with graphical advertising opportunities and a cost-per-click marketing platform.
To find out about sponsorship opportunities please contact Charlotte Davies on 020 8652 3860 or email charlotte.davies@rbi.co.uk
 
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