HitchHiker Partners

HitchHiker enjoys cooperations with different companies that develop wide-ranging technology solutions and leverage new sales channels, solutions and product offerings.
These cooperations include among others Gateway N.V., Bewotec, Iso, Traffics, Travelink/Comtech, Amadeus, Galileo, Sabre, Worldspan.

The open and modular architecture of our software tools simplifies the integration of systems.

 

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Through the Amadeus System over 57,500 travel agency locations and more than 8,500 airline sales offices around the world are able to make bookings with:
- approximately 450 airlines, representing more than 95% of the world‘s scheduled
  airline seats
- over 57,000 hotel properties
- some 45 car rental companies, serving some 24,000 locations
- other travel provider groups (ferry, rail, cruise, insurance companies and tour operators)

Amadeus also provides the most powerful, fully integrated, mid and back office travel management applications for today‘s travel industry.

Bewotec is a leading back-office system for travel agencies, consolidators and tour operators. Thanks to automated interfaces, Bewotec´s Jack software can be linked with visualFares. The back office generates procedures and calculations automatically and can guide the visualFares ticketing process. Furthermore, both sets of customers can be aligned.

Comtec Europe Ltd is the leading software provider to the UK leisure travel sector.
Comtec distribute market-leading brands in the leisure travel sector, incorporating Agency Selling Systems (Comtec EasySell), Agency Management System (Comtec TravelCat) and Tour Operator Sales and Management sectors (Comtec Travelink). The company’s customer base includes Thomas Cook, First Choice, My Travel, and Travelcare along with leading independent travel agents and operators.
Additionally, the Comtec Transaction Centre powers and provides holiday and flight availability data to hundreds of travel industry websites, including leading ecommerce players Thomascook.com, Expedia.co.uk and Lastminute.com.

At Galileo International, we make it our business to provide the travel industry with reliable, accurate access to inventory, schedule and pricing information.

With 30 years of experience we have the expertise that airlines, other travel suppliers and travel agencies around the world depend on. Maybe that’s why we’re one of the world’s leading providers of electronic global distribution services -- connecting approximately 45,000 travel agency locations to 500 airlines, 32 car rental companies, 50,000 hotel properties, 368 tour operators and all major cruise lines throughout the world.

Gateway is the specialist in creating, distributing and maintaining airfare databases for airlines.
We have more than 15 years of experience and are active in every part of Europe.
As an independent company we guarantee the absolute confidentiality of your data.
We offer a large range of services and are currently the market leader in data processing for the travel industry in Europe.
Non-published fares, exclusive deals, corporate fares, all kinds of fares are carefully processed from our offices in Belgium and India.

The maintenance of your fare database is an important factor for your success!
This specialised activity requires both knowledge and extreme accuracy.
Gateway has all these properties and is the ideal partner for managing the maintenance of your fares databank.

The ISO group is one of the leading and successful software companies in the European tourism sector and has now been in the market for 25 years. Today, more than 200 employees work in international projects at several locations in Germany, Austria, Poland and Canada. Apart from the tourism sector the company has software solutions in many other sectors such as airport and air traffic management, medical techniques and automotive. All processes and products are certified according to the quality assurance guide lines of the ISO 9001.

The tour operator solution OCEAN is a strategic system within the World of TUI. It is also used by other tour operators world wide such as Emirates Holidays in Dubai and Air Canada Vacations in Montreal and Toronto.

The incoming tour operator solution Canary is used by Diethelm Travel in Bangkok. A special incoming solution, named TOMAS, is used by the destination agencies of Thomas Cook.

For further information about the systems and their integration with Hitchhiker solutions, please contact Markus Kretschmer, Sales Director (info@isotravel.com).

Sabre Travel Network, a Sabre Holdings company, provides access to the world's leading global distribution system (GDS).  The Sabre GDS is a ready-built efficient marketplace that connects suppliers - including more than 400 airlines, 70.000 hotels, 37 car rental companies, nine cruise lines, 36 rail companies and 232 tour operators - with 56,000 travel agency locations.  Suppliers get access through one single connection; travel agents get real time access to thousands of travel products from multiple suppliers through one source integrated into their businesses; consumers get access to a global supermarket of the world’s greatest travel possibilities. 

Key brands of Sabre Travel Network include GetThere, the leading Web-based corporate travel reservation technology.

Sabre Holdings (NYSE: TSG) connects people with the world’s greatest travel possibilities by retailing travel products and providing distribution and technology solutions for the travel industry.

A success story with no borrowed capital: when it was founded in 1999 in Berlin, Traffics Softwaresysteme für den Tourismus GmbH set itself the task of developing innovative technologies for electronic transactions in the tourism business. Traffics has since established itself among the market leaders of travel booking systems with its wide range of products (IBEs, counter systems, mid-office and back- office solutions). Traffics has operated its own touristic CRS (Computer Reservation System) since mid-2004 with more than 140 direct connections to Tour operators, Airlines an Hotels. In addition, they also own a computer centre at Alboin Kontor in Berlin with more than 400 servers spread over a high-tech area of 1,000 m². 
The founder members of Traffics are Jens Muskewitz (CTO) and Salim Sahi (CEO).
Further information is available at http://www.traffics.de.
Traffics – Book it-all-in-one!

Worldspan provides worldwide electronic distribution of travel information, Internet products and connectivity and e-commerce capabilities for travel agencies, travel service providers and corporations. The company‘s three lines of business are travel supplier services, e-commerce and travel distribution for the worldwide travel industry. The Worldspan reservations system provides more than 20,021 travel agencies and other users worldwide with travel data and booking capabilities for hundreds of the world‘s leading travel service suppliers. Worldspan is the market leader in e-commerce for the travel industry, processing more than 50 percent of all online travel agency bookings.