Amadeus Global Travel Distribution S.A. is the largest global distribution system (GDS) provider, serving over 200 markets around the world. It has a comprehensive data network and database of more than 67,000 travel agencies, 10,500 airline sales offices, 58,000 hotels and 50 car rental companies. It also serves other companies including ferry and rail services, cruise lines, tour operators and insurance agencies.

DUN & BRADSTREET (NYSE:DNB) is the world's leading provider of business information, enabling business-to-business commerce for 160 years. D&B's information and technology solutions help businesses reduce credit risk, find profitable customers and manage vendors efficiently. Avenues, the owner of the website www.ccavenue.com is globally registered with worldwide DNB numbers – i-934-40364 (USA), 894-834-824 (Singapore) and 91-843-3652 (India). The D&B D-U-N-S Number is a unique nine-digit identification sequence, which provides unique identifiers of single business entities, while linking corporate family structures together. In today's global economy, the D&B D-U-N-S Number has become the standard for keeping track of the world's businesses.

Expedia by Pegasus, is an online travel agent, offers thousands of negotiated-rate hotels to supplement those supplied by Worldspan , the global distribution system (GDS) that links it to hotel, air and car suppliers worldwide. By combining these hotels with airfares, it can provide some competitively priced packages that are suitable for business travelers with relatively fixed itineraries.

Established in 1955, Federation of Hotel & Restaurant Associations of India (FHRAI) was founded by the 4 Regional Trade Associations of the Hospitality Industry. It functions as an apex trade association for the existing associations in hotel and restaurant industry in the country. Its purpose is to represent, promote, develop and preserve the hospitality industry as a lobby before the Ministries and Agencies of the Central Government.

Galileo , owned by the Cendant Company, is one of the world's leading GDS providers. Its core business is providing electronic global distribution services for the travel industry through its computerized reservation systems, leading-edge products and innovative internet-based solutions. It also is a value-added distributor of travel inventory dedicated to supporting its travel agencies and corporate customers, and through them, expanding traveler choice. It connected to approximately 43,500 travel agency locations to 460 airlines, 23 car rental companies, 58,000 hotel properties, 430 tour operators and all major cruise lines throughout the world. (as of 2005) .

Hotel Booking Solutions develops and provides unique, revolutionary solutions to connect and manage bottom-line results for the hospitality industry. Its premier product, hobooBox TM , is a channel management software which increases hotel occupancy, minimizes labor costs and increases the efficiency of hotels' reservation systems, by allowing hotels to manage multiple distribution channels seamlessly from their PMS or CRS.

Hotwire.com is a leading discount travel web site for airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, cruises and vacation packages. Launched in 2000, Hotwire negotiates deep discounts from its travel suppliers to help distribute their excess inventory. Hotwire is a wholly owned business of IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ: IACI).

Founded in 1999, Korvac's vast experience in financial payment technologies & solutions as catapulted it into a pre-eminent position in the payment & financial services market. Based on a highly flexible & secure payment platform, Korvac's solutions & services cater to three key channels;e-Commerce, m-Commerce & Physical Payment.

Merchantfraudsquad.com: The Merchant Fraud Squad is a not-for-profit organization founded in September 2000 by American Express and other e-commerce leaders. It provides education about fraud prevention techniques and encourages businesses selling online to adopt best practices and anti-fraud technologies. The Network's merchant focus distinguishes this group from others that are trying to combat this problem. This Worldwide E-Commerce Fraud Prevention Network seeks to significantly reduce merchants' exposure to online fraud and promote the growth of e-commerce through enhancement of consumer confidence.

Founded by Singapore 's leading banks in 1985, Network for Electronic Transfers Singapore (NETS) pioneered the concept of convenient cashless payments in Singapore . NETS' offers a range of payment solutions suited to different lifestyles and transactions. Its products give consumers the freedom to choose the best payment method for their lifestyle, control over their expenses. Moreover, customer can make payments from different devices and locations with a guarantee of security and reliability.

NETS services are available with more than 12,500 merchants across 30,000 points of access, including retail outlets, educational institutions, government establishments and car parks.

Orbitz, Inc. is an Internet travel company based in Chicago , and owned by the Cendant Corporation. Orbitz also operates portals for business purchasers of travel and travel vendors, and is a partner of Hotwire.com. Orbitz differs from competitors in that it neither consolidates inventory (such as Priceline.com) nor provides a gateway to a GDS. Orbitz searches directly for room inventory in from the computer reservation systems (CRSs) or inventory management systems of travel suppliers such as airlines. As such, it searches the entire inventory of available prices simultaneously, rather than retrieving a representative subset.

Priceline.com, the leading Internet-based travel auction website is powered by the Worldspan . Priceline.com offers leisure airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, vacation packages and cruises. Priceline.com owns and operates the retail travel Web sites Travelweb.com, Activereservations.com, Lowestfare.com, RentalCars.com and BreezeNet.com.

Dallas-based Pegasus Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: PEGS) is a global leader in providing technology and services to hotels and travel distributors. Founded in 1989, Pegasus' customers include a majority of the world's travel agencies and more than 60,000 hotel properties around the globe. Pegasus' services include central reservation systems, electronic distribution services, commission processing and payment services, and marketing representation services, including the consumer Web site, hotelbook.com™. The company's representation services, including Utell by Pegasus™ and Unirez by Pegasus™, are used by nearly 7,000 member hotels in 140 countries, making Pegasus the hotel industry's largest third-party marketing and reservations provider. Pegasus has 18 offices in 13 countries, including regional hubs in London , Scottsdale and Singapore . For more information, please visit www.pegs.com.

Sabre Inc. is a leading provider of technology for the Travel Industry. It provides a broad range of innovative products that enable travel e-commerce and services, and enhance airline, supplier and travel agency's operations and their ability to serve the traveler. Sabre connects to more than 50,000 travel agencies worldwide, approximately 400 airlines, 55,000 hotel properties, 52 car rental companies, 9 cruise lines, 33 railroads and 229 tour operators. It also owns Travelocity.com (an online travel service), Sabre Travel Network (an electronic network for travel buyers and sellers), and Sabre Airline Solutions (providing services to optimize airline operations and reduce costs).

Travelocity is an online travel agency that pulls most of its hotel rooms through the GDS operated by parent company Sabre . Travelocity is the sixth-largest travel agency in the US In addition to its primary US consumer site, Travelocity operates a full-service business agency, Travelocity Business, and comparable websites in Canada , Germany , France , the Scandinavian countries, and the UK , and is a partner in Asian travel hubs Tabini and Zuji. Other brands include Site59.com, World Choice Travel, and Showtickets.com.

TravelWeb is owned by Priceline.com, and powered by the Pegasus . Travelweb offers specially negotiated published-price accommodations for thousands of quality hotels around the world, including those owned and affiliated with Travelweb's founding hotel partners: Marriott, Hyatt, Hilton, Starwood and Pegasus Systems.

VERISIGN INC.(Nasdaq:VRSN) is the world's leading provider of trusted infrastructure services to Web sites, enterprises, electronic commerce service providers and individuals. Verisign provides to CCAvenue the critical Web identity, authentication and transaction infrastructure to conduct secure ecommerce transactions and communications.

Worldspan is a GDS that provides software used by travel agents to book airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, etc. It was formed in early 1990 when Delta Air Lines, Northwest Airlines, and Trans World Airlines decided to merge their reservations systems into a single system. It is currently connected to 16,000 travel agencies in nearly 90 countries and territories, 421 airlines, 210 hotel companies, 40 car rental companies, 39 tour and vacation operators and 44 special travel service suppliers.

Consumers have enjoyed using credit and debit cards for many years. However, sophisticated thieves have been able to extract credit and debit card information from unsecured databases and other means. This has resulted in a higher incidence of identity theft, a crime that affects merchant companies, financial institutions, e-commerce companies and individuals.

Because of these security breaches, the major credit card companies - American Express, Discover, MasterCard and Visa - decided to create regulations to help prevent theft of consumers' data. The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards were created by MasterCard and agreed to in 2004 by the four major credit card companies. Each of the credit card companies has its own term for these standards. On June 30, 2005, the regulations took effect.

The American Express program is called Data Security Operating Policy (DSOP); the Discover program is called Discover Information Security and Compliance (DISC);The MasterCard program is called MasterCard Site Data Protection (SDP); and the Visa program is called Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP).

Founded in 1951, the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is the recognized authority on Asia Pacific travel and tourism. It provides leadership and advocacy to the collective efforts of nearly 100 government, state and city tourism bodies, more than 55 airlines and cruise lines, and hundreds of travel industry companies.

PATA's mission is to enhance the growth, value and quality of Asia Pacific travel and tourism for the benefit of its membership. It is a not-for-profit organization

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PayMate is a Mumbai based wireless transactions platform provider. PayMate is a spin-off from Coruscant Tec a sister concern with a focus on wireless content. PayMate has created a viable ecosystem to enable wireless transactions connecting banks, switches, merchants and customers using a simple, secure and seamless technology. For more information visit: http://www.paymate.co.in.

ITZ Cash is another innovative product launched by Intrex India in Year 2003. ITZ Cash is a unique payment instrument available for Indian consumer, which is safe and convenient to transact online. Intrex India Limited is a public limited company incorporated in Year 2000 by Essel Group. Essel Group is truly diversified with its business activities spread over different Industries like Media and Entertainment, Tourism and Amusement, Packaging, Telecommunications and Publishing. The group is known for its successful implementation of unique business ideas. For more information visit: http://www.itzcash.com.