Amadeus Hospitality GmbH www.amadeus-hospitality.de www.amadeus.com

Hogatex-Optims is now called Amadeus Hospitality!

Vaterstetten n. Munich, 20 February 2006 - Munich based Hogatex-Optims, expert for hotel software solutions, operates now under the name Amadeus Hospitality. The business unit hotel IT is a result from the merger of the Optims Group - including Hogatex-Optims - and the hotel distribution department of Amadeus, a worldwide leading technology partner for the entire travel
and tourism industry.

Hogatex founder Richard Kurzl who is still running the company as Managing Director, says, “Nothing will change for our customers except for the name. The German Amadeus Hospitality GmbH remains an independent legal entity. And we, former Hogatex-Optims Munich, have been entrusted by Amadeus with further developing high end property management systems (PMS) for the entire Hospitality Group.”

Amadeus Hospitality provides international hoteliers and gastronomes with applications for profitable hotel management, worldwide distribution and IT hosting, plus technical consulting, project management and training.

Distribution and IT hosting have been added to the Amadeus Hospitality product portfolio.

About Amadeus Hospitality
www.amadeus-hospitality.de

Amadeus Hospitality is the hotel IT business unit of Amadeus, a worldwide leading technology partner for the entire travel and tourism industry. Our products are designed to maximise hotel revenue by optimising service and management methods. We offer solutions covering nearly the complete industry’s software demand: Property Management (PMS), Revenue Management (RMS/Yield), electronic and online distribution systems including hosting via Amadeus data centre, Point of Sale (POS), Back Office (stock and inventory control), Spa & Sport Management and Customer Relationship Management (CRM).

The Amadeus Hospitality group services 6,500 customers in more than 75 countries.

About Amadeus
www.amadeus.com

Amadeus is the technology partner for the travel and tourism industry with full support in four solution categories:

• Distribution & Content
• Sales & e-Commerce
• Business Management and
• Services & Consulting.

Amadeus stands for IT solutions that enable success in the travel and tourism industry, namely:

• Travel providers: i.e. airlines, hotels, car rental companies, railways, ferry and cruise lines,
  insurance companies and travel organisors
• Travel sellers: i.e. travel agencies and
• Travel buyers: i.e. corporations and travellers.

Amadeus has 6,500 employees worldwide, representing 95 nations.

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Amadeus Hospitality GmbH
Eva Markowitz
Tel.: +49 (0) 8106 321 401
Fax: +49 (0) 8106 321 111
E-Mail: markowitz@amadeus-hospitality.de
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