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Ahead RM participation in Greek Tourism Expo 2016 has been once again successful and it established its presence in the tourism industry. Showcasing its innovative travel technology solutions EntradaCRS, EntradaERP, EntradaCRM as well as the innovative Entrada3D technology regarding 3D printing applications for the travel and hospitality sector. The Greek Tourism Expo enabled Ahead RM to create a powerful platform for meeting new customers, reaching out existing clientele (clients) and discuss with them issues that might have occurred throughout their collaboration. The Ahead RM Team introduced the travel technology solutions in diverse sectors of tourism industry (hotel owners, travel agencies, DMCs, tour operators) discussed with them the advantages of the Entrada platform solutions, as well as the various licenses they can obtain depending on the scale or products of the company. The AheadRM Team in collaboration with 3D Lino Group presented also innovative 3dprinting solutions which can be applied in the hospitality and tourism sector. Our visitors were very impressed by the process making of architectural designs, yacht sailing spares and souvenir miniatures which were displayed during the exhibition. About Entrada Entrada is an online travel reservation platform that allows the users to buy, sell and distribute via Internet, all of their travel related products & services. It also offers a flexible and customizable B2B, B2C & B2B2C online booking engine which couples together schedules & LCC flights with various land services (hotels, transfers, packages, rental cars, etc.)  Currently there are more than 800000 online bookable hotels in our system, more than 10,000 transfer services in 80 countries & 2,500 major cities, rental cars in 180 countries & 10,500 locations, scheduled and private flight fares from Sabre and from more than 100 low-cost airlines.      

GTC Travel Consultancy  has been successfully using Entrada platform since 2015. The company now having seen the benefits of the Platform expands its business by investing further and extending its license. GTC Travel Consultancy is one of the fast growing travel consultant agents offering to corporate enterprises a wide range of travel advices and services. Our management team is a group of experienced professionals in hotel and leisure industry for more than 14 years. Our Vision: To be one of the leading travel agencies in Egypt. Our Mission: Is to maintain constant high level of service, create memorable experience for our partners and build a wide platform of new worldwide loyal partners. We are in bliss to offer our services through our passionate experienced proficient team to fulfill our partners’ needs. Our Products: – Worldwide hotel reservations. – Direct contracting for hotels and transfers in several destinations. – Exclusive deals with the main wholesalers and consolidators. – Flight and trains tickets – Airport and city transfers. – Visa arrangement along with accommodation. – Meet and greet. – Car rental with driver. – Honeymoon and static packages (hotels, transfers and tours). – Private and Tailor-made travel arrangement. – Sightseeing tours & excursions. – Cruise excursions. – Groups offers. – Travel insurance policies. About Entrada Entrada is an online travel reservation platform that allows the users to buy, sell and distribute via Internet, all of their travel related products & services. It also offers a flexible and customizable B2B, B2C & B2B2C online booking engine which couples together schedules & LCC flights with various land services (hotels, transfers, packages, rental cars, etc.)  Currently there are more than 800000 online bookable hotels in our system, more than 10,000 transfer services in 80 countries & 2,500 major cities, rental cars in 180 countries & 10,500 locations, scheduled and private flight fares from Sabre and from more than 100 low-cost airlines.

Entrada, the online travel system platform incorporates in its system the potentials that WebHotelier offers. Travel agents and Tour Operators can now get automatically data entries in relevance with hotel availabilities, prices and stop sales without wasting time on manual data entry.  Rates and availability   are   automatically    distributed to connected affiliate’s  Entrada network making the whole operation, from hotelier to Entrada end-user, seamless. About Entrada Entrada is an online travel reservation platform that allows the users to buy, sell and distribute via Internet, all of their travel related products & services. It also offers a flexible and customizable B2B, B2C & B2B2C online booking engine which couples together schedules & LCC flights with various land services (hotels, transfers, packages, rental cars, etc.)  Currently there are more than 800000 online bookable hotels in our system, more than 10,000 transfer services in 80 countries & 2,500 major cities, rental cars in 180 countries & 10,500 locations, scheduled and private flight fares from Sabre and from more than 100 low-cost airlines.   About Webhotelier WebHotelier is a fully customizable online booking engine for hotels, which helps hotels to provide award-winning intelligence and online sales tools. WebHotelier’s technology platform and unparalleled distribution and connectivity solutions are currently used by more than 4,000 hotels in 45 countries. For Travel Agents who use EntradaTM and want the B2B functionality directly within their platform, WebHotelier provides a Web Service API that EntradaTM can connect with and get all available information regarding the hotels, search for real-time availability, make bookings and retrieve reservation summary.  

  Ahead RM in partnership with its supplier Tourico Holidays presents in its online platform Entradanew feature; Best Value Hotels. Tourico, building on its reputation of providing clients, suppliers and customers with optimum booking tools   is simultaneously enhancing the online reservation process. New custom-generated prompts will feature the best value hotels in the area, which combine good location in a reasonable price.   The newly incorporated efficiency of Best Value Hotels will be defined with a flag on it, which will be shown as soon as the users sort out the results of their search. This feature will allow travel professionals to spend less time researching   hotels and more time assisting customers.

Güntur Turizm is a Turkish Company, founded in 2014, is a member of the Gündoğanlar Grup (Gundoganlar Group).   Güntur Turizm  has been one of the leading organizations in Turkey for the last few decades and  keeps up its  collaborations  with all major airlines of Turkey and Saudi Arabia, sea carriers and the largest hotel chains  in Turkey, Azerbaijan and abroad.   The services that are offered are the following: 1. Air tickets 2.Individual travel packages 3. Hotel reservations, car rental and transfers.   Güntur Turizm always keeps itself up to date, focusing on the clients’ needs, the technological advances as its main concern is to maintain premium quality   in the Business Travel and all tourism sectors as well as to offer innovative ideas so as to re-establish itself constantly.    

Turkish airlines airfares now on MyFareBox   MyFareBox, the leading B2B global airfare platform by Mystifly, incorporates Turkish Airlines into its exhaustive database of 900+ airlines. With this move, MyFareBox will now provide domestic fares that are not available to the major GDSs.   Through MyFareBox, travel providers will now be able to get:   Savings between 20-40% on  airline fares by ticketing through MyFareBox 24×7, 365 days support for bookings, amendments and cancellations Customised branding on e-tickets Option to hold PNR on time, mitigating the possible loss associated with uncertain PNR status Ease of payment through multiple payment and multi-currency options for bookings     About Mystifly   Mystifly is an anywhere-to-anywhere global airfare marketplace offering airfare consolidation from 900+ airlines including 170+ LCCs of 70+ points of sale countries across North America, South America, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia. Founded in 2009, the company focuses on cutting-edge solutions for the pertinent problems and gaps in the air travel and ticketing industry.   Mystifly’s flagship air ticketing platform – MyFareBox and technology variants in the form of white label solution, xml web services & corporate travel management tool are globally used by over 2500 customers.                

      CBS Travel Asia was established in 1999 and quickly became one of the leading Destination Management Companies in Thailand. This outstanding achievement in such a short period of time is a direct result of the vision and hard work of the company’s CEO, Mr. Chaladol Ussamarn, whose deep understanding of Asian tourism is rooted in over 35 years of hands-on operational experience. With dedicated team of travel industry professionals hand-picked for their expertise and scrupulous attention to detail, CBS offers a complete range of services throughout Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam with its head office located in Bangkok. All aspects of travel including transfers, airline ticketing, sightseeing tours, medical tourism, hotel accommodation, meeting & conference, leisure groups & incentive groups and package tours are provided and supervised by highly qualified and experienced Thai and International managers who fully understand the needs and idiosyncrasies of the many nationalities that the company handles on a daily basis. CBS’ strengths: Over 15 years of experience on handling Middle East, China, India, Spain, Portugal and Russia Market; Direct contracts with over 2,500 hotels across Thailand and very good relations with leading Thai hotels; Comprehensive list of the products and services that CBS offer: Hotel Reservations via Offline and Online (instant confirmation directly with hotels via our online booking system) Transport services: transfers, car rental VIP Services (Luxury cars, Airport Fast Track Service) Private and Exclusive Travel Arrangements Multilingual Guides Domestic & International Air ticketing, Charter Flights Meeting & Incentive Services FIT and GIT Group Series Tours Special Interest Groups Medical Tourism Sightseeing and Cultural tours in many destinations across Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos etc.) Diverse Travel Programs including Golf Tours, Adventure Tours, Family Holidays, Wellness & Spa Retreats

  In our latest version which we released we introduced a new feature called selectable request timeout. This new feature applies on all product initial searches allowing the end user to select the time he would like to wait in order to receive the results from the system. In this way the user can choose to either wait longer in order to get all results from even the slowest providers .   There is an option to enable or disable it and set your default value. By this way Entrada affiliates can differentiate their B2B & B2C strategy applying the desired wait time for each respective channel.    

MTS City Breaks is a global supplier of on-line hotel accommodation, car rental, transfers and tours, offering its services exclusively to travel agencies and tour operators. To date, MTS City Breaks is comprised of a highly capable and experienced team of professionals that is setting a new standard to the concept of service, by offering the following on a continuous basis: A portfolio of over 98.000 hotels, being located by 65% in Europe, 10% in the US, 15% in Asia and 10% in the rest of the world, which covers any need of any type of traveler, from budget establishments to 5 star hotels and luxury resorts.   A worldwide geographical coverage of 123 destinations; a fact which indicates that we offer most, if not all, travel destinations on a global scale.

As the Entrada travel reservation platform keeps on growing, we make changes in order to create an as much as possible user-friendly environment. From now on, just below the sub-affiliate’s credit limit users can see their future reservations. This means that they are able to see the price of the Confirmed Hotels bookings, the price of the Option Hotels bookings and the price of Flights, Transfers, Cars and Static Packages bookings. In this way users will be able to forecast their future sales revenue against the credit limit provided.

In Ahead RM we like to keep our innovation and new ideas in a high standard, always in need of our clients. That is why we are happy to announce Entrada’s New Version including major advancements including:  New redesigned layout for Administration module, Combinable Discount Policies, Partial Discount Policy, Buyer Future Confirmed Reservations, Filter car results by local supplier, fixed bugs in Chrome browser for Google maps.

In Ahead R.M. as we continue to grow, we feel the need for innovation, for creativity and making ourselves and our Entrada Platform better. For all our effort we were Awarded Silver Prize from the “Tourism Awards 2016 – Travel & Hospitality” for the innovative use of technology! We would like to thank Boussias Communication for the award and all our employees for making this possible. On behalf of Ahead R.M., our Managing Director, Agis Anastasiou received the Award. About Entrada Entrada is an online travel reservation platform that allows the users to buy, sell and distribute via Internet, all of their travel related products & services. It also offers a flexible and customizable B2B, B2C & B2B2C online booking engine which couples together schedules & LCC flights with various land services (hotels, transfers, packages, rental cars, etc.)  Currently there are more than 800000 online bookable hotels in our system, more than 10,000 transfer services in 80 countries & 2,500 major cities, rental cars in 180 countries & 10,500 locations, scheduled and private flight fares from Sabre and from more than 100 low-cost airlines.  

Founded in 2001 in Nicosia, Cyprus, SeeYou Travel has a major role in the Cypriot Tourism Industry.  Focusing primarily at the customers’ needs and their travel experience, SeeYou Travel offers the best service at the best price.  Official IATA member since 2008 maintaining close collaboration with airline and cruise companies as long as other stakeholders of the Travel Industry. SeeYou Travel offers services including hotel bookings, transfers, car rentals, travel packages and tickets for special events such as football matches abroad.

Entrada is proud to introduce its new Transfer Module. The module involves new design, more functions and smoother navigation. Apart from Airports, it now serves Ports and Train stations as starting or ending points as well as the usual City and area points in 101 Countries (based on A2B service). Furthermore, the new module supports multicurrency which means that you can buy and sell in any currency you wish.

Ahead RM Introducing the Entrada Platform at Emitt 2016 in Istanbul, Turkey. The Visitors of Emitt 2016 had the opportunity to get to know all of the Entrada services and benefits.

Destination Santorini Travel Bureau is a newly established office in Fira, Santorini. It was founded in 2013. Their key pursuits are to excel in service, extend to their clients the famous warm Greek hospitality (pholoxenia), satisfy the needs of their clients and introduce new ways of experiencing holidays in Santorini.

We are happy to announce that from Monday 18/01/2016, Ahead RM will operate from our new offices. The company will move on Friday 15/01/2016 and therefore our call center and email services will be temporarily unavailable. Mobile telephones will be operable for emergency cases.                 Our New Corporate Location: Sygrou Avenue 188, Kallithea, 17671, Athens Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this unavailability of our services causes you. Please update your files with our new address information.    

Entrada has launched a new module to supply the user with an advanced search engine with more geographic settings. From now on, you have the option to restrict your product searches in only one or more countries. You can enable and manage the new module through your Iframe Admin. This New feature is especially designed for DMCs and incoming agencies that are only activated in specific country -or countries-. You may enter all the country codes you wish to restrict of your product searches separated easily with comma, and make your search more filtered and your results even more  accurate. This module is designed to help your everyday work within the platform and execute your searches faster. The module is currently applicable to all products except Flights and Flight+Hotel. If you need more information in enabling this feature, please contact our support department.

Ahead RM’s successful presence was apparent in the Greek Tourism Expo 2015. The Ahead RM Team introduced Entrada in many interested parties from the travel industry, discussed with them the advantages of the Travel Sales System and the different ways it can integrate in any agency regardless the scale or products of the company.   Discussing the Evolution of Greek Tourism‬ Industry with Alternate Minister of Tourism Elena Kountoura at the Entrada Booth.           Ahead RM’s successful presence in Greek Tourism Expo 2015 – Round Up.             The Ahead RM Team  

OPERA TRAVEL was established in Cyprus in 2006. As Travel Consultants they can meet all of their customers travel requirements, always according to the traveler’s expectations. The company is IATA accredited and offers scheduled flights, low cost carriers or a combination of the two to ensure that the best prices are always offered. More than 50,000 available hotels and tailor made packages are offered to the customer.  www.opera-travel.com See Entrada’s Portfolio

Bedglobal is a global online B2B channel, founded in Athens Greece. They are a dynamic company consisted by committed professionals in digital tourism. ΒedGlobal provides high quality digital services on FIT bookings, group bookings, tours and packages, transfers and car rentals around the globe. They also cooperate with local tour operators, wholesalers and hotels in direct. Bedglobal is committed to provide high quality services at the most competitive rates. www.bedglobal.com See Entrada’s Portfolio

ViaggiOggi is an Italian  taylor made tour operator based in Rome and exclusively oriented to the Greek destination since 1992. Today is the preferred partner in Italy for various Greek Agent , Hotels and generally speaking various tourist activities.Is one of the Italian top partner for Aegean Airlines and from the 1st January 2015 is official sales agent for Celestyal Cruises for central Italy. Their product is oriented to all the Greek destinations all year around according to customer requests and groups.

Blue Aegean  is a prominent incoming tour operator since 1999, offering all kinds of services such as: Accommodation in hotels,villas,apartments,home,traditional houses for individuals or groups. Tailor made holidays, events, incentives, private or group tours. They also specialize in private or group transfers, prices for rent a car or rent a limo with driver.

Executive Travel always keeps itself up to date, focusing on the clients’ requirements, the improvements of technology and the changes of times, always making sure to maintain classic principles in the Business Travel and Tourism fields as well as proposing innovative ideas so to re-establish itself constantly.

Entrada is now linked with “Arab African International Bank“, making it easier for our partners to make their transactions. Their Vision “To be the leading financial group in providing innovative services with a strong regional presence being the gateway for international business into the region.”

Entrada is introducing the new Currency Exchange Feature. Now it is easier and more efficient for our clients to buy and sell in any currency. This feature allows the user to manage all the exchange through a single field or use our official exchange rate list if they are selling in EUR, GBP or USD. How will this feature change our customers’ everyday workflow: FASTER everyday activities without managing exchange from different fields MORE EFFICIENT buying & selling in any currency IMPROVEMENT in everyday tasks . We are always trying to find ways to improve and evolve our services to for our customers’ everyday activities. ABILITY to target any customer in a wide range of countries    

Boutros Tours is a Destination Management Company founded in Athens. The company is successfully established in the Greek and International travel market, since 1997, due to its philosophy which can be summarized into one thing: High quality of Service with a personal touch. Also available for Entrada Affiliates, 700 self contracted hotels and numerous packages in the Middle East including United Emirates, Egypt, Jordan and Kenya in Africa.

Democritus Travel is the largest travel agency in Alexandroupolis, with its own busses and tours throughout Europe.

Their clients are economic migrants, tourists, greek small business and individuals. Daily, over 2000 customers in average, visit their branches. The reason they prefer KapaTravel is simple. They trust them, because they have quality products and the cheapest prices. Their stores operate from 08:30 until 20:30, seven days a week. Their policy of attracting customers is simple. In order to increase the customer visits in our branches, they must not lose anyone of their existing customers.

Rhodos Direct Holidays is a specialist independent incoming travel agent DMC based in Rhodes, Greece since 1992. They specialise in direct and alternative holidays to Rhodes and are proud of their unique understanding of the island and knowledge of it’s many diverse aspects and wealth of accommodation. their services include villas and apartments rental in Rhodes as well as all range of hotels.

MYKONOS ACCOMMODATION CENTER is located since the year 2000 above the Mykonos Nautical Museum, on Enoplon Dynameon street, just a bit further then the end of main street Matoyianni. Pleasant, more spacious and still right in the heart of Mykonos Town: comfortable for them to work in, and for their clients and friends to visit, when on Mykonos!

Quite simply, their passion and commitment is to delight their customers by bringing only the best standard of hotels and unique accommodation around the world. From beach and budget otels to boutique breaks and luxury castles – and everything in between – you can find exactly what you’re looking for with them. And you’ll find all of their hotels covered by their Best Price Guarantee, meaning when you book, you can book with absolute confidence.

Their ambition is to expand abroad directly and offer competitive and innovative services to the public. They combine technological knowledge with experienced staff to achieve a customer oriented approach. Almost every month they introduce new services and continue to invest for the future. They’re trying to achieve even more and continue to believe that Greek companies can be competitive internationally. They are here to prove it.