Making The Investment

The European Commission (EC) has recognized Amadeus as the number one European R&D investor in the travel and tourism sector as part of its annual EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard. The scoreboard, which examines R&D investment by both European and worldwide companies, ranks companies based on total R&D investment.

Herve Couturier, executive vice-president of research & development at Amadeus, commented that: “Our R&D team is over 5,000-people strong and between 2004 and the end of 2014 we have invested over 3.5 billion Euros in total R&D across Amadeus. However, what is most important is the fact that thanks to these investments we are improving the travel experience — from managing flight disruptions to streamlining the process for booking a passenger’s ticket online. And making this difference is what drives our passion to continue shaping the future of travel.”

Couturier continued: “We want to be recognized as the best R&D team in travel to support the continued growth of the company. At the same time we are driven by our ambition to be the very best in innovation & quality and the most reliable in delivery. We are a global team of very talented people that together work to create the solutions our industry and our customers demand.”

The company said in a statement that it recognizes that to shape the future, it needs to invest in the future – in 2014 Amadeus invested 568.4 million Euros in R&D, taking the total invested in R&D between 2004 and the end of 2014 to over 3.5 billion Euros.

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