Amadeus, a leading travel technology partner and transaction processor for the global travel and tourism industry, is celebrating the success of its long-term partner House of Travel for winning the People’s Choice Award for New Zealand’s Best Travel Site at the NetGuide Web Awards last Friday for the fifth consecutive year.

Amadeus and House of Travel have enjoyed a successful partnership for close to five years with the companies, both young and dynamic, sharing a philosophy of industry leadership, technological innovation and strong customer focus.

With more than 200,000 votes cast for the People’s Choice Awards, the win communicated to House of Travel that its websites - houseoftravel.co.nz and mixandmatch.co.nz – are user-friendly, flexible and above all meet the needs of New Zealand travellers. House of Travel uses Amadeus Master Pricer, a powerful low fare search engine, to power the shopping and availability of fares for its sites.

“Working with Amadeus and using their Master Pricer technology has been an important part of providing a better customer experience on our sites and winning the People’s Choice Award is proof of that”, said Niall White, Strategy Director at House of Travel. “Amadeus Master Pricer is fast, with results returned in just seconds, and we are able to give consumers more search options, and therefore a wider range of fares to choose from.  Amadeus’s technology has been instrumental in finding new ways to improve our offering to the New Zealand public.”

Amadeus Master Pricer allows consumers to search fares using a range of criteria including price, schedule or airline with up to 200 of the lowest fare options being returned. There are several ‘flavours’ of Amadeus Master Pricer available, each with its own features and benefits. House of Travel use Master Pricer Agent Fare Families and Master Pricer TravelBoard to provide an optimal combination of choice and flexibility to their customers. Amadeus Master Pricer Agent Fare Families is a relatively new addition to the Master Pricer portfolio and in using it for their websites House of Travel has demonstrated its typical ingenuity in adopting the latest and best technology and tailoring it to suit their needs.

Amadeus Master Pricer Fares Families expands the search options available to consumers, offering more service driven criteria such as fare type, cabin type and ticket changeability, and allows them weigh those options against price in a single screen.  Amadeus Master Pricer TravelBoard is designed for the cost-conscious traveller and enables customers to narrow or broaden the search process by airline, schedule, price range and connections.