Amadeus, a global leader in technology and distribution solutions for the travel and tourism industry, today announced a partnership with HTH Worldwide to provide its global health and safety databases to Amadeus' travel agency subscribers in North America. The partnership - the first of its kind for the travel agent market - enables Amadeus to integrate HTH products into the Amadeus Selling Platform desktop, allowing agents in the U.S. and Canada to provide their clients access to global healthcare and safety information from their wireless mobile devices, laptops or desktops via subscriptions to HTH Mobile Healthsm.
'Amadeus' mission to provide the best technology and products to help travel agents 'sell the world' is inherent to this partnership with HTH,' said Owen Wild, Marketing Director, Amadeus North America. 'HTH delivers to our agency customers valued-added booking opportunities and an additional revenue stream through new commissionable content.'
Amadeus travel agents are the first to be able to easily access HTH Mobile Health subscriptions for more than 180 countries directly through the Amadeus Selling Platform. When booking HTH Worldwide content, agents are eligible for commissions of up to 25 percent. HTH Worldwide also offers agents the opportunity to add the subscription sales link to their own Web sites free of charge.
According to HTH, two out of three international travelers experience health problems on trips lasting up to 90 days. Now agents can offer peace of mind to their clients while creating a new revenue stream by distributing subscriptions online and in person. Through HTH Worldwide subscriptions, travelers will be able to find out where to seek emergency or urgent care and how to fill prescriptions, look up profiles of carefully selected English-speaking doctors in a wide range of specialties, learn emergency numbers and vaccination requirements and translate medications and medical conditions.
'For HTH Worldwide, this is a great opportunity to partner with a global travel technology leader to expand the distribution of HTH Mobile Health subscriptions via travel professionals in North America,' said Angelo Masciantonio, Chief Executive Officer, HTH Worldwide. 'Amadeus recognizes the importance of HTH's global health and safety information and how to best offer their agents seamless access to content that can add value.'
Founded in 1997 as Highway To Health, Inc., HTH Worldwide has become a leading provider of international health insurance programs and an innovator in online healthcare information, medical assistance and insurance services around the globe. HTH offers a full range of individual and group specialty health insurance programs, all of which include HTH Mobile Health.
The Amadeus Selling Platform is the industry's first and most widely used browser-based point-of-sale tool that allows travel professionals to focus on selling travel and developing customer relationships. For more information on Amadeus, contact 1-888-AMADEUS or www.us.amadeus.com.
About Amadeus
Amadeus is the chosen technology partner for providers, sellers, and buyers of travel. The company provides distribution, IT and point-of-sale solutions to help its customers adapt, grow and succeed in the fast-changing travel industry. Customer groups include travel providers (airlines, hotels, car rental companies, railway companies, ferry lines, cruise lines, insurance companies and tour operators), travel sellers (travel agencies) and travel buyers (corporations and travelers).
Amadeus has central sites in Madrid (corporate headquarters & marketing), Nice (development) and Erding (operations - data processing center) and regional offices in Miami, Buenos Aires and Bangkok. At market level, Amadeus maintains customer operations in 75 countries covering more than 215 markets. The company has nearly 6,700 employees worldwide, representing 95 nationalities. Amadeus' revenue for the year ended December 31 was €2,418.7m. More information about Amadeus is available at: www.amadeus.com.
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