A new site developed by Billian for Dawson & Sanderson and aimed at couples who wish to ask for a 'gift with a twist' has now gone live. The giftmyhoneymoon.co.uk site offers couples the ability to create a savings fund for their honeymoon as an alternative from the usual gift list. Donations are taken online and the couple create their own honeymoon profile using photographs and text. This has been a slightly different venture for Billian and an exciting one for us to be involved in. It's a great idea and hopefully it will be a big success for Dawson & Sanderson.

We are very pleased to be working with Sabre to provide their customers across the EMEA region with a B2C web booking engine. This exciting new product has been developed specifically for Sabre customers and offers flights, hotels and cars with a choice of language, colour and branding options with full online payment processing capabilities. Features include calendar shopping, multi-sector itineraries, integration with low cost carriers, single PNR generation and auto-ticketing.

Full details of the product and a demonstration is available from Sabre representatives in each region.

Once again we will be exhibiting at the Travel Technology Show on 7th and 8th February at Earls Court, London. All of our products will be available for demonstration including our new B2C solution, developed for Sabre customers.
If you would like to arrange a demonstration of any of these products, please call Laura on 01254 699065 to book an appointment in advance or call in and see us on stand A14. We look forward to seeing you there.

Keep an eye out for our new and improved website coming soon including links to our brand new Twitter and Facebook pages, and updates on our exciting new solutions developed in conjunction with Sabre for their worldwide customers.

Due to further expansion, we are looking for a person with travel industry experience to join our customer services team.

Ideally, you will have over 3 years experience in the travel industry and a flair for technology. You should be self motivated, confident on the phone and have the ability to see projects through to conclusion.

GDS knowledge would be a distinct advantage as would the ability to speak French.

If you feel you have the relevant experience and need a new, challenging role in a different area of the industry, please send your CV to sales@billian.co.uk.

TTS 2011 has come to an end today and it looks as though this will be one of the most successful shows ever for us !

Visitors from UK and Europe came to see both our well established and new products and the feedback was extremely positive, especially for our corporate booking tools and dynamic packaging solution. It was also excellent to meet up with our existing customers, many of whom have been with us for many years and it is always a good opportunity to catch up and see how their businesses are doing and get new ideas for future product development.

If you didn't get chance to visit us at the stand and would like to know more abut our products, please get in touch with sales@billian.co.uk and we can easily arrange a product demonstration.

We very much look forward to seeing you at TTS 2012 !

We will be exhibiting this year at TTS which is being held on 8th & 9th February at Earls Court.

All of our products will be available for demonstration, including our competitively priced GDS Lite application, our new self booking tool for corporate travellers with full travel policy authorisation and also our dynamic packaging and event management products.

If you would like to arrange a demonstration of any of these products, please contact Gill to book an appointment in advance or call in and see us on stand A14. We look forward to seeing you there.

We are very excited to be working closely with Travelport within Europe and especially with the team in France with whom we are finalising our Dynamic Packaging solution for Travelport customers within the French market. There is a lot of interest and we are very much looking forward to deploying this to our first joint customer very soon. All our other products, including our corporate profile and self booking tool and B2B and B2C airfare solutions are also available with the Travelport GDS.

We have now completed the Travelfusion No-Frills integration and passed their certification process. We are now in a position to start integrating this onto customer sites. If you are interested in offering No-Frills airlines on your website in conjunction with GDS fares please give us a call and we will be pleased to demonstrate the new offering to you.

On 1st June 2010, Billian International BVBA will be operating out of Belgium. Trading initially as a sales and distribution office, this will enable us to provide a better service, both to our existing and new European Customers. Whilst all the development and technical work will be done in the UK, we plan to operate local support from the office in Belgium early next year.

We are extremely pleased to announce that we have an important new customer in Holland. World Ticket Center is a major player in the Dutch market and they have chosen our Package-it product to work with for Phase 1 of their dynamic packaging project. This new sale is an important step towards our future expansion into Europe and we are very much looking forward to working with the team at World Ticket Center on their exciting and challenging project.

Billian I.T. Solutions are pleased to be attending Travel Technology Europe 2010 at Earl's Court once again.
The show has already attracted a high number of registrations from both exhibitors and visitors, and is promising to provide innovative & integral technology solutions for the travel industry.

We can be found on stand A18 and will be pleased to discuss your requirements with you. If you would like to arrange an appointment in advance, please give us a call. We look forward to seeing you there.

We are pleased to announce that John Melchior has taken up the position as Sales Director for Billian. John brings a vast experience and in depth knowledge of the travel industry both in Britain and Internationally. Born and educated in Denmark John came to the UK in 1981 and became Managing Director of Maersk Travel and later Scanscape Holidays. Later he joined the airline sector by becoming Sales and Marketing Director of Birmingham European Airways and in 1991 he became Executive Vice President of Radius, The Global Travel Company.

Since 2005 John has been Managing Director of JME Enterprises and Consultancy Ltd, a consultancy company who has helped a number of suppliers to the travel industry including several technology companies develop their business in UK and Europe. The consultancy also advises travel agencies on how to do better business and corporate clients on making best use of their travel budget.

In taking on this new task John Melchior said: “JME has made a point in only representing and working for high quality companies and I have got to know Billian, their products and their people over the last few years and I have no hesitation in representing and helping them get their products more widely distributed. The company has an excellent track record, very happy clients and products that appeal to the travel agency community today as they help making their operations more flexible and more efficient”

Ian Jones, the Chief Executive of Billian added: “ John has all the experience and contacts in the industry which will help us achieving our objectives. We know the appeal our products have, but by recently employing another industry veteran Luc Dethaey as Managing Director and now John Melchior to head up our sales efforts we are confident that Billian will become one of the leading suppliers of Travel agency systems over the next few years”.

We are pleased to announce that on 1st October, Luc Dethaey joined the company as Managing Director.

Some of our customers may know Luc from his previous work, however we would like to give you some background and are sure you will see why the decision was made to bring Luc onboard.
Luc was the founder of ICSAT, a Company specialising in front and mid-office solutions with customers in more then 20 countries worldwide. ICSAT was bought by Amadeus some years ago and since then Luc has been working as a consultant for various companies, including Galileo and Agresso. Luc has more then 20 years experience in the Travel Technology sector and knows the industry very well.

In addition to sales and business development, Luc's main aim in the first 6 months will be to streamline the business and put more processes and organisation into the way we work currently, we are sure that this will have a positive impact on both customers and staff.

Ian & Vicki remain the major shareholders and will continue to work alongside Luc. Ian's role will now be Chief Executive and all major decisions will be made jointly.

Whilst Ian's main role will continue to be focussed on Development, ensuring that work is done to a high standard, on time and to specification, he will also be looking at ways to move the products forward by investigating emerging technologies and new processes. As you are aware, our industry changes rapidly and Ian will also spend time working with industry specialists to review new requirements and to further enhance the products to the benefit of both existing and new customers.

We are hoping to arrange customer visits over the next few weeks so that Luc can meet everyone personally, however if there is anything in the meantime that you would like to discuss please do not hesitate to contact us.

Our Fares Assist IBE has now been certified by Amadeus, this now means that we are now able to offer links with all 4 GDS's for our B2B and B2C applications.

We are in the process of developing a new Fares Assist module for customers who have their own allocation of seats or who have chartered their own aircraft.

The new module enables sales either via the desktop application or via a website and in addition to the standard Fares Assist functionality, includes allocations, seat maps, passenger lists and reports. For more information please contact vicki@billian.co.uk

We have setup a new hotline for emergency out of hours calls. The number is +44 (0) 870 112 7080

From today, customers will be able to log support issues and requests for enhancements via our website. The support area has been greatly enhanced and customers are able to log calls, track progress and produce reports based on their activity.

In-house, logs are checked and updated on a regular basis and customers will receive e-mail notifiction of each update.

Customers wishing to access this facility should request an access code from us.

The latest version of Fares Assist supports both open jaw fares and mixed class fares.
In addition to the above, we are now also able to accept charter fare feeds for display on a website. The next new feature will be allocations for fares which will be available within the next 4-6 weeks.

In conjunction with a partner company based in India we have enhanced our fare-loading services. If you are an existing "Fares Assist" customer and need your airline contracts loaded for you - then please contact us for a quotation.

Scuba-diving specialist operator Barefoot Traveller launched their new website at the 'Dive Show' last month. This has been possible by using our dynamic packaging tool "Package-it" in conjunction with "Fares Assist" and "Hotel Assist". Check out www.barefoot-traveller.com and contact us if you need similar functionality for your own website.

It has been announced that Ickenham Travel Group's online division, Letsgo2.com are finalists in the Dynamic Packaging Website Of The Year category of the e-tid.com awards 2005.

The site is powered by our newly launched dynamic packaging solution Package-IT. The software takes fares and accommodation data from our Fares Assist and Hotel Assist products and incorporates a powerful booking solution and a comprehensive reporting facility.

We are thrilled to be the sole technology provider for this innovative site and wish LetsGo2 every success in the awards.