Abacus wins best new technology award

Abacus International, Asia’s leading provider of travel solutions and services, has been honoured with the ‘Best New Technology’ award at the TravelWeekly China & Events China 2011 China Travel & Meetings Industry Awards.

Abacus, having held a foothold on this award for the past five years, was recognised for superiority and popularity of its product, as well as outstanding achievements and competitiveness in the travel industry.

Abacus International President and CEO Robert Bailey said, ‚It is an incredible honour for us to receive this award five years running – although it has been another challenging year in the travel industry, to receive such prestigious recognition is great affirmation and motivation for our team based in China. We are pleased that our efforts to support the travel industry locally are being acknowledged and praised.

Abacus has recently launched three solutions, including Abacus WorkSpace, a Next Generation point-of-sale solution that helps agency increase productivity and drive higher revenue through content aggregation. It has also launched Abacus Mobile, a web-based point-of-sale mobile solution and Abacus TripPlan, an online corporate travel management solution. Abacus has also released two enhanced solutions: Abacus PowerSuite, Asia’s first choice front-to-back financial management solution for the travel industry, introducing a Business Dashboard with on-demand reporting, and Abacus WebStart, the premium white label Internet booking engine with a new Web Content Management platform which empowers non-technical users to become sophisticated Web publishers and marketers in less than a day.

Mr Jack Zhai, Abacus China’s General Manager, added, ‚We’re delighted with this award and proud of our considerable achievements. We’d like to thank our customer, partners and voters for their continued support and recognition of our efforts over the past five years. We are committed to continually deliver innovative solutions that will make a difference for the travel industry.

The 2011 China Travel & Meetings Industry Awards recognises outstanding achievements and contributions to tourism by travel companies in Asia Pacific. This year’s Awards received over 4.2 million votes by TravelWeekly China & Events China readers as well as industry peers in all categories.

The Awards were presented at a gala dinner event at The China World Summit Wing in Beijing on 29th August.

Singapore-based Abacus International is Asia Pacific’s leading provider of travel solutions and services with more than 20,000 travel agency locations in 24 markets. With over 23 years of experience in fusing international best practices and local expertise with global and local partnerships, Abacus provides travel information and reservations specifically tailored to the Asia Pacific region.

Abacus International is owned by a consortium of Asia’s leading airlines including All Nippon Airways, Cathay Pacific, China Airlines, EVA Airways, Garuda Indonesia, Dragonair, Philippine Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Royal Brunei Airlines, SilkAir and Singapore Airlines, together with Sabre. Sabre is the global leader in the electronic distribution of travel and travel related services.