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PASS VTO Upgrades Business Management Capabilities: Enhancements to Improve Profitability and Productivity

Posted on: Monday, 15 August 2005, 12:00 CDT

MIAMI, Aug. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- PASS Consulting Group has just announced its newest suite of services that increase the power and performance of the PASS Virtual Travel Organizer (VTO). With these new offerings, the VTO has evolved from a booking tool to a business tool with its hottest features including industry-leading capabilities in faring, profit margin management, business systems interfaces, and productivity tools.

"The PASS VTO's newest features have been developed in order to further meet the needs and exceed the expectations of our clients," said Michael Strauss, CEO of PASS Consulting. "By enhancing our powerfully flexible and independent system, we now offer services that were not only previously inexistent in the industry, but will now set a new standard for booking tools."

The Business Management Suite The Business Management Suite is comprised of the following components: -- Profit Margin Management: Fare displays show profit margins and these margins can be increased or decreased on the fly to meet market fluctuations. -- Split Screen: Published fares and private fares can be split into two screens and sorted low to high for easier comparison. This component is exclusive to PASS and allows for more informed booking choices. -- Itinerary Names and Back Office Coding: Multiple definitions can be made for a single entry. While the system may register a more specific name for the fee, such as a "ticket fee," the client might see "service charge." This whole feature adds to the flexibility of the VTO and even includes MCO processing. -- Contract Management Interface: VTO can interface with any CMS (Contract Management System) which gives the travel manager the ability to see and work with all relevant private fares from any CMS and GDS. The Productivity Suite The Productivity Suite is comprised of the following components: -- Interface Flexibility: In this feature, the user has the option to flip between a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and the native Green Screen. This capability is available only to PASS customers and it provides the user with the highest level of flexibility. -- Passport Ability: The VTO can easily change reservations where passports are needed for adults but not infants. -- Improved Hotel Booking: VTO has the ability to book multiple people in multiple rooms with different rates all under one booking, such as corporate and government rates. -- Improved Car Workflow: The VTO user can choose to use either car booking codes or GUI check boxes when selecting cars. -- Ability to Emulate Other Offices: This system makes it possible for the user to emulate other offices in order to access information available only to certain offices. -- Customizability: The GUI is ultimately customizable and can therefore look and feel any way that the user wants it to and can work with any other agency systems.

To serve even the largest agency operation, the VTO solution works in conjunction with the highly acclaimed PASS XX/1 Multi-GDS Transaction Server and Internet Booking Engine as a total management solution. The PASS XX/1 can manage 3000+ concurrent transactions and is a proven data pipeline that is used by companies such as E-Travel, Travelport, and Unique Vacations. The XX/1 has had no unscheduled downtime in the last 3 years. For more information on Virtual Travel Organizer or on PASS XX/1, contact Michael Strauss at (305) 269-6975. More information about PASS VTO and other PASS travel industry solutions is available at http://www.pass-consulting.com/usa .

About PASS Consulting:

Miami-based PASS Consulting Corporation's Graphical User Interface VTO has many features including integrated customer profiling, individualized look and feel on the web, customizable workflow, on screen profit margins, and synchronized GDS native interfaces. With its unique multi-GDS capabilities, the certified and proven PASS GDS adapters put agencies in a position to solve the challenges of multi-source customer servicing and agent training with the easy to use, fully integrated system. PASS clients include Amadeus, E-Travel, Worldspan, Cendant/Travelport, Omega World Travel, Thomas Cook, MTS Travel and Unique Vacations. PASS was founded in 1981 in Germany and now has 730 employees worldwide with revenues in excess of $100 million. More information is available at http://www.pass-consulting.com/usa or by calling (305) 269 6975.

PASS Consulting Group

CONTACT: Kate Koziol of K Squared Communications, Inc. for PASSConsulting Group, +1-773-412-6840, kkoziol@ksqrd.com

Web site: http://www.pass-consulting.com/usa

Source: PRNewswire

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