Karachi, 7 March 2007 – Abacus International, Asia Pacific’s leading travel facilitator today announced the Pakistan launch of a major new airfare pricing system which delivers more fare options for travel agent fare queries, while improving the efficiency of the fares and pricing process by over 50%.

Abacus International CEO and President Mr Don Birch said the launch of Abacus SmartPrice would boost the competitiveness of Pakistan travel agents in the battle for best fares, and followed extensive research into the needs of corporate and retail travel agents across Asia Pacific.

Karachi, Pakistan.

Celebrations following the successful launch of Etihad Airways’ new route to New York City have continued with the UAE’s national airline launching “Sell New York See New York”, a joint promotion with Abacus.

This initiative by Etihad Airways is aimed at encouraging the agencies, by announcing attractive awards for the agents who manage to sell the maximum number tickets of the newly launched New York Route. To participate in this campaign, all Etihad tickets have to be sold through Abascus.

Abacus held its annual Abacus Kick Off 2007 from 24th – 26th January at the Marina Mandarin, Singapore.

This year’s themes was “Rewarding relationships –Together We Build the Future”.

The conference included main Plenary, Break-out Tracks, Seminar and closing Plenary. The break out tracks focused on cross-sharing of experiences, information and updates on new solutions to help customers.

The three days of conference engaged the Abacus National Marketing Companies in discussions from strategies to solution deployment in the Abacus markets. This year Abacus invited Dr. Jack Loo of ISSR as a special speaker to highlight the business issues faced by travel agent.