The deal will enable the Amadeus Mobile Travel Assistant solution to be made available to all travel management companies and corporations that use Amadeus technology to book and manage their corporate travel.

Mobile Travel Assistant distributes relevant travel information directly to travellers’ mobile phones at the time they need it. This includes ground transportation and hotel details and any location-specific information identified by the traveller’s employer or travel management company.

American Express Global Business Travel was the first to globally partner with conTgo and integrate its mobile capability into its new mobileXtend solution and Michel La Bianca, VP Global Travel Technology Strategy at American Express Travel, said, “This proprietary means of integration allows the mobile solution to work across platforms, including Amadeus. We are pleased to have our approach with conTgo confirmed with Amadeus signing this agreement.”

Mobile Travel Assistant provides specific warnings and global risk information to selected travellers. In the case of emergency or during crisis situations, it allows companies to effectively communicate with travellers through a graphical and informative user interface. At the same time, the service allows for cost savings by ensuring improved compliance to the defined travel policies.

Mika Kiljunen, CEO of Kaleva Travel Group, commented: “The Amadeus conTgo partnership has been in place for a while, but with the new closer level of co-operation between the two companies, the overall value of Mobile Travel Assistant combined with the Amadeus distribution system increases substantially.”

Mobile Travel Assistant customers, such as the launch customer Microsoft, can also use the unique MapCast module to create a visual overview of all travel activity in the company. The corporation can communicate directly with travellers from the map interface, using a combination of itinerary filtering and geo-spatial selection.

MapCast can be opened from anywhere using a normal web browser and regular Internet access, and works for any booking imported into Mobile Travel Assistant.

Albert Pozo, Director Multinational Business & Corporate Travel, Amadeus said that “conTgo’s outstanding performance during disruption events such as the volcanic ash cloud crisis, the December snow chaos and the Queensland flooding is a strong sign of its bandwidth and capability to deliver superior service to our joint customers”.

Download conTgo’s White Paper on “Leveraging Mobile Technology and Social Media at Times of Crisis” here