Premium Package Travel Brand of Nouvelles Frontières Launches Successfully on CONTOUR Travel Management and Distribution System
PARIS, France, and REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., USA – 9 November 2006 – TUI France, the premium package travel brand of Nouvelles Frontières, France’s leading provider of tours and packaged travel, has launched reservations and call center operations on CONTOUR, the leisure travel management and distribution platform from Fourth Dimension Software (FDS).
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. TUI France is a premium package travel brand that offers flexible and fixed vacation packages to major leisure destinations worldwide to travel agencies throughout France. CONTOUR, a complete technology solution for travel management and distribution, enables the TUI France brand to deliver more flexible packaging and selling options to travel agents while benefiting from new efficiencies across its internal operations.
“We are very proud to announce the successful go-live of TUI France on CONTOUR,” said Jacob Gluz, President and CEO of FDS. “This accomplishment is a testament of the dedication, hard work and commitment from the project teams of both Nouvelles Frontières and FDS. Nouvelles Frontières will continue to achieve real and lasting benefits as we roll out CONTOUR across all of their business units and distribution channels.”
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., USA. 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
