Athena eBookings is an IBE (Internet Travel Booking Engine) providing a facility where consumers can book their own travel products through the Internet. With Athena eBookings, travel suppliers are able to diversify distribution channel and provide convenience for their customers to view travel information, locate and search for products (tour packages, air, hotel and others), make a reservation and retrieve previous bookings.

 Athena eBookings is applicable for Corporate or Retail users where different workflows of reservation can be configured.

Athena eBookings can be installed independently or integrated with Athena Bookings and Magellan, making a complete travel technology solution.

Fares are supplied by Magellan, and reservations made through Athena eBookings will be automatically exported to Athena Bookings, where consultants are able to manage the bookings without re-keying the data. Similarly, confirmation and status changes are updated in the agency’s Athena Bookings are also reflected in the eBookings.

Athena eBookings infrastructure is developed using Microsoft .NET technology and based on XML and web-services for communication and interface to other systems.

Key Features:

• Able to book air, hotel and tour packages, insurance and other travel products.

• Able to book multiple trips with different travel arrangements

• Developed using Microsoft .NET, utilising XML and web-services

• Integrated with Athena Magellan for Fares Management

• Integrated with Athena Bookings to achieve seamless integration with internal agency system

With Athena Corporate eReporting system, travel agencies are now able to deliver online and real-time reporting facilities to their corporate clients.

Corporate clients are able to retrieve their own financial and travel reports based on purchases of travel products from the travel agency. Information provided includes travel expenses report by specific dates, airlines and hotels usage, statement of accounts, and other travel-related reports.

The system is also able to generate charts and graphs, for example to show the usage of different airline carriers for the month or the year.

Athena Corporate eReporting relies on the data transmitted from Athena Bookings, which includes all financial data such as selling price, discount and rebates given to the corporate.

In this manner, Corporate will be able to retrieve complete travel-related information including insurance, service fees and other travel arrangements.

With Athena Corporate eReporting, corporate travel agencies are equipped to deliver better services to their corporate and at the same time reduce operating overheads in manual generation of reports.

Key Features:

• Online and real-time retrieval of travel-related reports
• Flexible selection of reporting period and other parameters, e.g. specific airline or passenger
• Access rights are issued by the travel agency to specific corporate
• Developed using Microsoft .NET, utilising XML and web-services
• Integrated with Athena Bookings to achieve seamless data integration

The product name - WarBoard derives from the table where commanding officers in wartime discuss and plan actions based on the movement of troops and terrains which are laid out on that table. The objective of this product is similar in enabling managers to make decision by the presentation of the real-time data of the agency.

Based on the implementation of Athena Bookings suite, Athena WarBoard further extends the power of automation by offering advance reporting and management functions. This real-time analytical reporting draw from all data – operational and financial, generate performance metrics, and present a pictorial and situational of your current travel business.

Information such as Revenues and Cost are presented with the breakdown of the details of your customers buying patterns – which type of travel products, what kind of itineraries, which suppliers the products are from, and which consultants are selling them.

Senior management or owners of travel agencies will appreciate Athena WarBoard because it is designed for business where success is contingent upon the speed, accuracy, clarity and effectiveness of the data presentation. This solution will empower the organization to plan, analyze and adapt in real time, for better business performance.

This revolutionary business intelligence tool will give a big advantage over the competitors in better management of the agency and plan better for profit maximisation.

• Interactive real-time data access
• Fast retrieval and easy to understand data presentation
• Extensive Reporting Selection Criteria
• Drill down capability for displaying detailed operational data
• Multiple reports display at anytime for planning and comparison purposes
• More than hundreds of reports and combinations offered
• Auto-update capability

Athena Magellan maintains about 14 types of fares from airfares, hotel, car, cruise, ferry to tour packages. It includes a tour packager, which creates tour products comprising itineraries and options (hotel or land choices).

As part of a fares management system, Magellan also provides wide-ranging distribution channels through print, download into Magellan Client edition and through Internet (as part of Athena eBookings).

Athena realizes Fares management is a tedious and laborious process and Magellan has features to reduce repetitive tasks in creating fare data. In addition, Magellan accepts fare imports from Excel and text files that can be used as a master fare copy, i.e. the Excel file is the master fare sheet for changes and addition into Athena Magellan.

When you purchase Athena Magellan license, you will be able to distribute Magellan (Client Edition) free-of-charge as part of the distribution module. Magellan (Client Edition) is a read-only module which search and read Magellan fare files. These fares can be integrated into Athena Bookings.

Key Features:

• More than 14 types of travel products – air, hotel, car, cruise, ferry, tour packages, and others

• Import from Excel or text files, which can be used as master fare files

• Distribute fares through Internet, print, and download facility to Magellan (client Edition)

• License to distribute Magellan (Client Edition) free-of-charge

Athena Focal
Centralisation (HQ and Branches) Solution

As a solution for travel agencies having multiple locations (branches), Athena Focal automates the consolidation of data across all sites into a single central depository. The mechanism ofAthena Focal utilizes the low-cost Internet connectivity and setup-and-forget installation.

To complement the data consolidation function, Athena Focal Reporting compiles critical reports of all offices financial figures and presented them in a single module.