France’s Leading Leisure Travel Group to Deploy CONTOUR as a Complete Inventory Management, Reservations and Distribution System
PARIS, France, and REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., USA – 22 June 2006 – Nouvelles Frontières, France’s leading provider of tours and packaged travel, has chosen the CONTOUR® travel management platform from Fourth Dimension Software (FDS). The company will deploy CONTOUR to manage its inventory and distribution processes across all of its leisure travel brands.
Nouvelles Frontières, part of Europe’s leading tourism group TUI AG, offers an expansive array of flights, hotels, package tours, flexi-packages and independent holidays to travel agencies and consumers throughout France. CONTOUR, a complete technology solution for travel management and distribution, will enable Nouvelles Frontières to expand its electronic distribution, deliver more flexible packaging and introduce new efficiencies across its operations.
The replacement of our current reservation system had become vital in order to undertake new initiatives in online distribution and dynamic packaging,” explained Eric Debry, President of Nouvelles Frontières. We’ve chosen CONTOUR after an extensive selection process, through workshops organized with the efforts of more than a hundred employees. CONTOUR’s extremely rich functionality should allow us to enhance our dynamic packaging production models and introduce new e-commerce solutions for travel agents and customers. For 2009, we expect to achieve a 30 percent reduction in IT system costs among other important gains in productivity and efficiency.”
“We are very proud to announce Nouvelles Frontières as our newest customer,” said Roman Stanell, Vice President, Business Development and Implementation Services at FDS. “CONTOUR is uniquely designed to meet the needs of Europe’s largest and most sophisticated tour operators, and we are committed to the European leisure travel marketplace.”
About Fourth Dimension Software
Fourth Dimension Software (FDS) is a software development and services company for the travel industry. FDS delivers CONTOUR®, the leading travel management and distribution solution for tour operators and wholesalers, travel suppliers and retailers. CONTOUR enables travel enterprises to take advantage of sophisticated reservations and inventory management of complex travel products, dynamic packaging, call center and online travel distribution, and comprehensive business automation. FDS is privately held and based in Redwood Shores, Calif. Additional information is available at www.4ds.com.
About Nouvelles Frontières
Nouvelles Frontières was founded in 1967 and is today the number one tour operator in France. It carried 1.6 million clients in 2005 with a turnover of 1.18 billion Euros. The Nouvelles Frontières Group is part of the first worldwide travel industry TUI Group. Nouvelles Frontières counts 3400 employees, the two tour operators brands Nouvelles Frontières and TUI France, 292 retail travel agencies (212 Nouvelles Frontières agencies and 80 Havas Voyages agencies), the eight-aircraft airline Corsair, the 24 Paladien hotel-clubs, and five websites: www.nouvelles-frontieres.fr, www.corsair.fr, www.havas-voyages.fr, www.tui.fr, and www.ultravacances.fr. Fourteen Nouvelles Frontières holiday brochures are distributed throughout the Nouvelles Frontières retail network, and two TUI brochures throughout the 2,500 partner agencies of TUI France. Additional information on products and services is available at www.nouvelles-frontieres.fr.
Media Contacts
Douglas Quinby
Director, Marketing & Communications
Fourth Dimension Software
Tel: 1 404 760 9182
Email: dquinby@4ds.com
Monique Richter
Head of Communication
Groupe Nouvelles Frontières
Tel: 33 1 48 51 83 06
Email: mrichter@nouvelles-frontieres.fr
