PARIS, France, and REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., USA – 25 March 2008 – Nouvelles Frontières, France’s leading provider of tours and packaged travel, has successfully completed on-time deployment of the CONTOUR® travel management platform from Fourth Dimension Software (FDS) across its major brands and distribution channels in the French travel marketplace.
Nouvelles Frontières, part of Europe’s leading tourism group TUI Travel, offers an expansive array of flights, hotels, package tours, flexi-packages and independent holidays to travel agencies and consumers throughout France. CONTOUR enables full reservations, distribution, inventory management and operational control for Nouvelles Frontières’ major brands and distribution channels. Following a phased 18-month implementation program, Nouvelles Frontières’ has deployed CONTOUR for online and call center reservations as well as a front-office booking platform for the company’s 200 travel agencies throughout France.
CONTOUR enables Nouvelles Frontières to manage and distribute thousands of flexible and fixed packages, sharing and optimizing inventory across hundreds of product lines while enforcing specific rules and business processes for different brands and distribution channels. CONTOUR is tightly integrated with Nouvelles Frontières’ fulfilment procedures and company financials platform to support documentation, payment handling and commissioning, and for improved operational efficiency across the organization. CONTOUR also delivers powerful business flexibility, enabling Nouvelles Frontières to adjust pricing and other rules quickly to adapt to new market conditions.
“The complete deployment of CONTOUR represents a significant milestone for Nouvelles Frontières and our partners in the travel industry,” said Jean-Marc Siano, CEO of Nouvelles Frontières. “The technological transformation of a company as large as Nouvelles Frontières is an extremely complex and challenging undertaking, and to complete such a project on schedule is no small accomplishment. With a flexible, future-oriented technology platform, we are achieving significant improvements in operational efficiency and adapting quickly to the demands of a changing marketplace and the needs of our travel agencies.”
“The successful implementation of CONTOUR as Nouvelles Frontières’ core technology system speaks volumes for the tremendous dedication of the teams at Nouvelles Frontières and FDS,” said Ilya Pavolotsky, COO of Fourth Dimension Software. “CONTOUR’s flexible architecture and unparalleled scalability with the HP NonStop platform will ensure Nouvelles Frontières’ continued ability to grow, adapt and succeed well into the future. We offer our congratulations to their entire organization.”
“We are extremely pleased to be able to contribute to the success of Nouvelles Frontières by providing the HP Integrity NonStop Server platform, which offers the highest service levels and reliability to customers,” said Neil Pringle, Director, NonStop Enterprise Division, HP EMEA. Nouvelles Frontières’ installation of CONTOUR runs on the HP Integrity NonStop NS14000 Server.
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 2006 with a turnover of 1.16 billion Euros. The Nouvelles Frontières Group is part of the first worldwide travel industry TUI Group. Nouvelles Frontières counts 3400 employees, the two tour operator brands Nouvelles Frontières and TUI France, 340 retail travel agencies (220 Nouvelles Frontières agencies and 120 Havas Voyages agencies), the eight-aircraft airline Corsair, the 30 Paladien hotel-clubs and 6 Koudou Clubs, and five websites: www.nouvelles-frontieres.fr, www.corsairfly.com, www.havas-voyages.fr, www.tui.fr, and www.nf-en-ski.fr. Eleven Nouvelles Frontières holiday brochures are distributed throughout the Nouvelles Frontières retail network, and two TUI brochures throughout the Nouvelles Frontières retail network and 2,600 partner agencies of TUI France. Additional information on products and services is available at www.nouvelles-frontieres.fr.
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.
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Fourth Dimension Software
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Email: dquinby@4ds.com
