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World Travel Mart 2009 in London 
Staged annually in London, World Travel Market is a vibrant must attend four day business to business event presenting a diverse range of destinations and industry sectors to UK and International travel professionals.
It is a unique opportunity for the whole global travel trade to meet, network, negotiate and conduct business under one roof. By attending World Travel Market, participants efficiently, effectively and productively gain immediate competitive advantage for their business and stay abreast with the latest developments in the travel industry.
TO.TE.C. 2009 - videos et interviews
Accovia : major sponsor and speaker at TO.TE.C 2009
Learn more on this event at http://www.totec.travel
Comtec Group Signs Strategic Alliance with Accovia in CanadaComtec has reached an agreement with the Canadian travel solutions technology provider Accovia, a member of GFI Solutions Group Inc. The multi-year deal will enable Accovia to become the exclusive distributor of Comtec's Travelink Tour Operating Software in the Canadian marketplace.
As part of this concerted move into the Canadian market, Comtec will work jointly with Accovia to localize the Travelink product, leveraging their industry knowledge and expertise. Â Building on the successful foundations of the alliance in the French markets, Accovia will act as the primary sales and support contact for customers, with Comtec offering back up services.
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"This is a key move into the Canadian market for Travelink," comments Simon Powell, Comtec CEO. "The combination of Travelink's technology providing optimized performance as well as an increased return on investment with Accovia's in-depth understanding of the Canadian market."
Michel Simard, Accovia's Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer comments: "This is exciting news for Canadian Tour Operators. With Travelink, Accovia will extend its services to better include small and medium size companies. Travelink is a complementary technology to Accovia's suite of solutions. Our combined expertise will bring greater value to our customers." Â
Paula Morris, Senior Director, Sales and Customer Service, adds: "By putting its 24 years of experience behind Travelink, Accovia is bringing to market the cost effective alternative Canadian Tour Operators have been waiting for." Comtec will be exhibiting at World Travel Market in Excel, London from the 9th to the 12th of November 2009. Accovia is a major sponsor and speaker at the Sabre Tourism Technology Conferences - TO.TE.C in Paris on the 6th of November 2009.
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New Product: Hubiz Flights AnalyzerBringing together industry, government, and supplier flight data in the context of your own business is a challenge. Finding and using the applicable data to improve and enhance your business is the goal.Â
Understanding the data to enable market competitive strategies is the benefit of using Flights Analyzer.
- Forecast potential flight capacity compared with your offerings.Â
- Identify airports and carriers pronged to delays.
- Calculate market average ticket prices.Â
- Compare the competitiveness of your contracted/negotiated fares.Â
- Visualize the wealth of your business' historical data.
- Recognize opportunities to optimize margins and mitigate losses.
Flights Analyzer works with your business to exploit industry data and information to improve your bottom line.
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Ibiza Update from Pierre et VacancesLast fall, Accovia defined with target customer Pierre & Vacances an ambitious plan of 4 deliveries up to the deployment and operation of its new platform for wholesalers. This new product, aka internally under the code name IBIZA, is based upon a BRMS (Business Rules Management System) in which the wholesaler can define its own business rules for package offering, price reductions, sales conditions, etc. Last June, the Ibiza team proudly delivered to P&V the version 0.8 (second of four), for which their teams have just completed running the test scenarios during the UAT (User Acceptance Testing ) phase. It is with this release that product configuration has started with the help of the Accovia's implementation team.
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Works are fully under way for the next release, version 0.9. The development phase is now completed in various teams, and integrated QA is at its peak. Of course, this release is extremely important for us, since the first bookings will be made with version 0.9 at Pierre & Vacances. Before the end of December, development for version 1.0 will be completed. It will include all the functionalities required by P&V to operate this solution seamlessly for all their residential accommodations.