Under the terms of the agreement, which runs from May 1, 1999 through December 31, 2002, the services offered by TRUST include TRUSTCrs, central reservation technology; TRUSTVoice, private label voice reservation services; TRUSTGds, seamless GDS services under the TX chain code in SABRE, Worldspan, Amadeus and Galileo; TRUSTWeb, seamless, real-time booking functionality on Pegasus’s TRAVELWEB and associated web sites powered by DAD, such as Preview of Microsoft Expedia. 

"We are proud to begin this long-term co-operative association with Treff Hotels," said Dr. Peter Agel, TRUST Managing Director. "Treff has the same dedication to the highest standards of service and technology as TRUST." Through new functionalities developed jointly by TRUST and Treff, member hotels will have access to the industry’s most advanced technology in the future, Dr. Agel added.

"As specialists in service, sales and marketing, TRUST supports our activities with one of the best reservation systems available in the marketplace," says Ernst Kesper, Member of the Board for Treff. "TRUST’s innovative technology focus pushed by its majority parent company Bertelsmann, a media and technology giant, motivated this true partnership with a win-win agreement on both service and cost elements."
 

About TRUST

TRUST International, a joint venture of the media giant Bertelsmann and SRS - WORLDHOTELS, develops and implements a state-of-the-art central reservation system, providing tailor-made, real-time reservations and global distribution solutions for the hospitality industry. TRUST provides real-time reservation solutions that seamlessly connect hotels and the bookers worldwide, including private label telephone lines, connectivity to all Airline Reservation Systems and to various web sites and Internet platforms. TRUST maintains four offices worldwide including the Headquarters in Frankfurt, and the Americas office in Orlando, Florida. Among TRUST clients: some 1,000 hotels at 450 destinations in 76 countries including Preferred Hotels & Resorts, Kempinski, Swissôtel, Park Plaza International, Park Inn Hotels, SRS-WORLDHOTELS, Pan Pacific Hotels & Resorts, Oberoi Hotels, Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Inter Europe Hotels and Treff Hotels. For more information call TRUST at 407-677-3198; email at [email protected] or visit the website www.trustinternational.com.