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DAVS Agency and Amadeus extend strategic partnership agreement

DAVS Agency, one of the leading Russian agencies specializing on business and individual travel, and Amadeus Commercial Organization in Russia have announced the extension of their partnership agreement for 3 years.

DAVS Agency will continue to benefit from using Amadeus revolutionary products and technologies to support online and offline sales of tickets and ancillary travel services. Today DAVS is one of the largest Russian players in air ticket online sales.

Vladimir Maltsev, General Director, DAVS Agency said: ‘Amadeus is setting trends for travel industry offering innovative IT solutions that revolutionize travel experience and sales. DAVS has been working with Amadeus from the beginning of its operations in 1996. In partnership with this technology leader we constantly discover new opportunities to strengthen our competitiveness’.

Alexey Syrykh, General Manager, Amadeus Russia, commented: ‘We are delighted to continue our successful long-term partnership with DAVS Agency, one of the leading travel companies on local market and a pioneer of travel e-commerce in Russia. Amadeus local team will continue to support DAVS in its business strategy to further improve market position and provide sophisticated services and more benefits to customers’.

Andrey Maltsev, Head of Business Development, DAVS Agency: ‘Our sales volumes via Amadeus is above the average market rates, mainly because of online bookings growth. Together with Amadeus we have dramatically expanded the range of online services for our customers having access to best offers of the leading airlines worldwide. Our web-site constantly develops, following the evolution of Amadeus internet booking engines, and today we are creating our own application based on Amadeus Web Services’.

DAVS also perform stable growth in off-line sales participating in Amadeus & TCH project in Russia. This allows to offer a full range of air tickets from Russian and international airlines combining benefits from two air transport billing, settlement & e-ticketing systems available in Russia - IATA BSP and TCH ATSS.

Additional Amadeus products help DAVS to ensure end-to-end customer travel service following the best of the world standards and increase revenues thanks to more profitable ancillary services bookings. DAVS Agency was granted a Diploma from Chartis Insurance Company (referred to as AIG company starting from November 2012) for active sales of travel insurances.

For more information please visit: www.davs.ru