Akbar Travels, one of India’s leading travel agencies, has selected the Amadeus Selling Platform to drive sales in their home market of India and their expansion plans across the Middle East.

“With the Amadeus Selling Platform, Akbar Travels can access a wider range of more reliable content, and consistently lower fares. This means we can deliver a best-in-class level of customer service which is a crucial factor in our business success. The platform's easy to use interface will also help our travel agents to increase productivity and efficiency in their daily operations,” stated KV Abdul Nazar, chairman and MD of Akbar Travels.

The Amadeus Selling Platform is the world’s most-used retailing application for travel professionals. Over 90,000 travel agency points of sale worldwide – both offline and online – use the Amadeus system and over 55,000 airline sales office use it as their internal sales and reservations system.

“The Amadeus Selling Platform solution will not only help the travel agency to increase productivity but will also empower them to offer better customer service and gain higher returns on investment,” added Antoine Medawar, VP Mena, Amadeus.-TradeArabia News Service