Leading Nigerian travel company Skymiles selects Final Quadrant’s SuiteCase to launch first B2B travel portal in Nigeria following the launch of “Final Quadrant Solutions, ”.  a leading travel technology solutions provider has implemented its innovative SuiteCase SAAS model for Nigeria based Sky Miles, unique travel & tours company and enabled it to become what is thought be the first B2B travel portal in Nigeria.

SuiteCase SAAS (Software as a Service) will allow SkyMiles to aggregate travel content (air, hotel, car & packages) from various 3rd party travel suppliers like Galileo, Sabre & Tourico Holidays etc and distribute it through multiple selling channels (website, call center & sub-agent) thereby automating the entire search to fulfillment cycle. This innovative solution from FinalQuadrant will enable Skymiles to manage its growing sub-agents and will allow them to open their own online travel account to manage flights, hotels & cars, issue tickets & hotel vouchers receive invoices and make the payments. Their account can be seen only by them thus providing them with total control and privacy. 

Within few weeks of launch SkyMiles was able to cater to more than 200 online sub-agents. Skymiles MD Khais Sait expects the number of online agents to increase by about 500 in the next six months with the launch of the new booking engine. Commenting on the launch, Anuj Gupta, Chief Executive Officer of Final Quadrant said, “Final Quadrant SuiteCase provides travel companies, with new generation technology that transforms the way they do business”. With SuiteCase SAAS model, Skymiles eliminates the infrastructure and ongoing costs that traditional applications require and ensuring that important resources are allocated in areas other than IT. This solution enables the company to gain a competitive advantage at a fraction of the cost. We are delighted to be working with one of the leading travel companies in Nigeria to help them maximize the opportunity present in their market."

About Skymiles

Skymiles Travels & Tours Limited was incorporated in August 28, 2000 primarily to provide travel services to the general public. Between then and now, this organization has become so unique in the industry with wealth of expertise in international and domestic travel services supported by high technology driven solutions.

Today, Skymiles Travels & Tours Limited is a smart travel company providing information, pricing, availability and booking facility for air travel, hotels, buses and car rentals across 36 cities and small rural areas in Nigeria. As an online travel company, Skymiles travels acts as a complete tour planner for travelers and is a one-stop shop for every travel need.
 

Final Quadrant Solutions, a leading travel technology solution provider, has implemented its sophisticated complete web based travel platform SuiteCase for Interpass, one of the largest travel companies in Lisbon, Portugal. Travel technology specialist FinalQuadrant has implemented what is thought to be one of the largest multi-product, multi-supplier & multi Channel booking system in Portugal.

Established in 1989, Grupo Interpass is constituted by a set of companies in the most diverse areas of activity with headquarters in Lisbon offers a full range of travel services primarily for people in Portugal. The go-live follows business workflow re-engineering to ensure a successful launch.

FinalQuadrant's web-based multi-lingual system connects the agency's call centers, registered travel agents (B2B), consumers (B2C - www.interpass.pt ) & club members. This multi-part assignment enabled Interpass with flight booking engine with flight fare loading facility; a hotel booking engine with XML access to inventory from large hotel aggregators like Hotelbeds, Transhotel, GTA, Tourico etc; a car booking engine with XML access to Europcar; and payment gateways like Redunicre & Santander to ensure secure payments. FinalQuadrant has also integrated its dynamic packaging module for packaging flights, hotels, car rental and travel insurance in one seamless booking. Interpass now can not only manage its pre-made packages but can also suggest travel combinations to customers during their site visit.

With all sales channels of Interpass connected seamlessly through FinalQuadrant’s SuiteCase, Interpass is now able to streamline their operations as well as reduce the work required to manage the complexities of their club member travel booking which now uses the member based profile management system provided by Final Quadrant.

Joao Manso, CIO of Interpass Travel, commented, "We desired to implement a proven, scalable and robust platform that could deliver complete automation to our Travel operations. We feel that FinalQuadrant is the company that has the product and knowledge to work with us to achieve those objectives. Partnering with Final Quadrant provided innovative ways to multiply revenues and decrease operating costs thus giving us an added advantage over our competitors and unique experience for our Club Members”. FinalQuadrant’s CEO Anuj Gupta added: “FinalQuadrant’s initiative to deliver a complete web based fully integrated front-mid-back office across the Interpass group is to be applauded, and we’re delighted to be working on a project that is truly innovative. Their selection of SuiteCase over alternative products demonstrates that SuiteCase is the complete travel management system of choice for the modern, forward looking travel companies like Interpass”


About Grupo Interpass (Portugal) - Grupo Interpass is constituted by a set of companies in the most diverse areas of activity where if they detach the Interpass Clube, the Interpass Agencia, the Interpass Servicos and the Interpass Hotels, being all the group led by a SGPS (Managing Society of Social Participation). The Interpass Agencia is the company of the group that gives travel services to the associates of the Club, in the diverse sources of the trips and leisure, now trough the Interpass Online travel portal.
 

FinalQuadrant unveiled its new-look dynamic packaging module for its existing complete ERP system, SuiteCase with unique features designed to make it simple for customers to build and book the holiday package online or through the other channels.

Final Quadrant Packaging Module for Travel Companies enables travel suppliers to package their core product offering with other travel products. FinalQuadrant enabled travel companies can now offer their customers a guaranteed price saving by combining a flight with a hotel and if desired, car hire and travel insurance, than if they booked the same products individually on a customer site. The new service utilizes FQ SuiteCase’s unique 'shopping basket' facility which allows customers to compare selected travel items before 'checking out' in one single transaction. This new module offers travel customers the chance to create their own packaged holidays, combining flights and accommodation for the specific dates they prefer

The ability to offer one integrated booking for flights, accommodation and other ground products means you are in control of your passenger's booking and fulfillment experience. Ultimately saving travel agent’s time and increasing their revenue streams by providing efficient services to the end customers.
 

The leading travel technology solution provider Final Quadrant Solutions has established a direct connectivity with Europ car, the European leader in passenger car and light utility vehicle rentals. The association with Europ Car gives Final Quadrant’s customers access to the full range of car-rental inventory.

Through this agreement FinalQuadrant’s customer’s will get a chance to provide the best possible rates and availability to their clients. Commenting on this, Anuj Gupta, CEO of Final Quadrant stated, “Real-time access to the extensive range of car rentals provided by Europ Cars will be a significant new benefit for SuiteCase customers and offers them further choice and flexibility in the way they package and sell holiday offers. It’s no longer sufficient for an airline or travel agency to provide a single car rental supplier to their customer base. Customers will shop around to make sure they get the best price unless the company provides access to all their options for car rental in one place

About Europcar - Owned by the French investment company Eurazeo, Europcar is the European leader in passenger car and light utility vehicle rentals. The company serves business and leisure customers throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia-Pacific. Excluding franchise operations, in 2007 Europcar signed more than 10 million rental contracts, with 7,700 employees and a fleet exceeding 215,000 vehicles.
 

FinalQuadrant, a global leader in travel technology for the travel industry has introduced direct connectivity with TouricoHolidays.com, one of the largest hotel portals in the world.

By adding Tourico's hotel inventory, FinalQuadrant will have one of the most competitive hotel pricing options available to its client base of travel agencies and tour operators. Travel agents using FinalQuadrant SuiteCase will be able to leverage these specially negotiated rates and combine them with its own exclusive airfares to offer discounted travel packages."

The connectivity will provide seamless access to the content, making the booking process easier, faster and more efficient.

Final Quadrant Solutions see this connectivity as an important step in making their hotel content more accessible. Similar partnerships, with other major travel suppliers are in the pipeline for the near future.

About Tourico Holidays - Tourico Holidays (www.touricoholidays.com) is the company's worldwide B2B subsidiary. The company distributes its proprietary inventory, including over 11,000 hotels, as well as airline, cruise and rental car inventory through a global network incorporating 2,500 tour operators and wholesalers, 102 international websites and nearly 200 direct connections to leading travel distributors. Tourico Holidays serves customers in 122 countries and its content is available via XML in 12 languages.
 

FinalQuadrant, a global leader in travel technology for the travel industry has introduced direct booking connectivity with Transhotel, a global consolidator of hotels and services, in a spate of supplier links developed during recent months.

The deal in developing new supplier links has been undertaken on behalf of FinalQuadrant customers that are expanding into new markets and wants to connect to new suppliers. The new links enable FQ customers to access an extensive range of booking inventory. SuiteCase customers will have real-time access to the entire hotels inventory of Transhotel - a global leader in on-line hotel bookings, offering instant confirmation at 50000 hotels worldwide, allowing them to check availability and price and make bookings.

The connectivity will provide seamless access to the content, making the booking process easier, faster and more efficient.

The move is to provide connectivity via FinalQuadrant to different type of third-party travel suppliers. FinalQuadrant already provides direct access to travel suppliers including GTA, Hotelbeds, Serhs, along with connectivity to the Amadeus, Galileo and Sabre GDSs and over 100 low-cost carriers.

About Transhotel - Transhotel Global Travel Services Provider is one of the world's leaders in the sector, with 26 international sales offices. The company's portfolio comprises over 50,000 hotels, offered to our 75,000 Travel Agency clients located in every continent. With 15 years' experience in hotel reservations and over 1,100 employees, Transhotel has become a reference thanks to its quality service and great product offer. Additionally, Transhotel provides transfer Services, tours and excursions in more than 110 countries.

FinalQuadrant, a global leader in travel technology for the travel industry has established direct XML connectivity with Gullivers Travel Associates (GTA)/Octopus Travel, subsidiaries of the Travelport Group, to its complete front-mid-back office system SuiteCase. FinalQuadrant will be able to provide its clients with a vast inventory of hotels, from budget to 5-star, across a wide range of destinations by accessing GTA content. GTA is one of the world’s largest suppliers of hotel inventory to the travel industry. Over 16 million bed nights in 23,000 hotels and apartments are booked through GTA, and its consumer-facing subsidiary Octopus Travel, every year. “a complete travel management system”.

FinalQuadrant SuiteCase allows travel agents to easily search compare and sell, from a single browser-based application, a wide range of products including flights (GDS, published and net fares, and low cost carriers), car hire and insurance. Using “shopping basket” functionality, all products can be sold separately or dynamically packaged together for an individual customer. The addition of GTA’s hotel accommodation will substantially enhance the range of bookable hotel content available to users of the application. FinalQuadrant already provides direct access to travel suppliers including various other large hotel consolidators, along with connectivity to the Amadeus, Galileo and Sabre GDSs and over 100 low-cost carriers.

Final Quadrant Solutions, a leading travel technology provider announced the direct connectivity with HotelBeds, a leading receptive and business to business provider of incoming travel services to travel trade professionals worldwide.

Under the new connection, Finalquadrant will provide its customers with direct access to HotelBeds.com's bed stock and other inventory.

The addition of Hotelbeds' inventory, with its particularly large European presence, is expected to significantly enhance the travel inventory available to FinalQuadrant's customers. This content integration is an opportunity for both FinalQuadrant & Hotelbeds to benefit from each other.

FinalQuadrant is continuously looking for opportunities to enrich its hotel content, as is highlighted by this key hotel consolidator addition in their system. FinalQuadrant is in various stages of discussions with other travel industry suppliers, continuing expanding its product offerings, which will have a direct connection between customers and suppliers.