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TravelCarma to showcase its Innovation at PhoCusWright’s “The Travel Innovation Summit” Oct 2011: Travel Technology provider TravelCarma has been selected to showcase its Innovation at PhoCusWright’s "The Travel Innovation Summit” on 15 Nov 2011, US. TravelCarma, the sole entry from India, is proud to share space amongst world’s leading 30 innovators who will demonstrate their applications, technologies and solutions which they expect will forever change the face of travel planning, purchasing and memorializing. "After being awarded twice for Innovation (Top 100 Innovators in 2007 & Top SaaS-AppS in 2011), we continued our efforts towards developing innovative products for travel industry. While industry has just started talking about importance of Cloud Computing and SaaS in Travel industry, we have already launched our product on Travel Cloud." said Saurabh Mehta, CEO and Technical Visionary – the guiding force behind all innovations at TravelCarma. In the ever-growing online travel space, travel companies without significant online presence are losing customers, market-share and revenue against their online competitors. TravelCarma empowers these companies by providing them e-commerce enabled complete online travel portals with their own branding and content, mobile and social media booking portals and access to global travel inventory. The pay-as-you-go SaaS model makes the technology available with no upfront investments. From the technology standpoint, TravelCarma’s innovation – “A Cloud-based Applications Delivery Platform integrated with an Open-Distribution based TravelXchange” provides travel companies with multi-platform POS and distribution of travel content across multiple channels. About TravelCarma TravelCarma is promoted by Avani Cimcon Technologies – an IS/ISO 9001:2008 certified / CMM level 3, software services and solutions provider having offices, resellers, partners and representatives in US, UK, Argentina, India, Australia, Germany, Malaysia, Thailand, UAE and Aruba. For more than 20 years we have been working with companies across the globe and have helped them leverage technology for their business growth. For more information, please visit www.travelcarma.com. Media Contact: Mr. Hiren Yadav Sr. Manager – Marketing & Communication www.travelcarma.com hiren@travelcarma.com Tel: +1 904 328 3090, +91 79 2687 2171
"TravelCarma" awarded as best SaaS system for Travel industry TravelCarma's suite of SaaS based solutions for Online Booking and Distribution, bags award of "Top 8 SaaS-AppS"at NASSCOM EMERGEOUT Conclave on 7th June 2011, India. From the list of 50+ SaaS systems, TravelCarma is recognized as the best in Travel industry segment. NASSCOM along with Zinnov did the evaluation based on criteria such as: uniqueness of the product, customers, no. of users for the product, marketability and the potential, online support, usability, performance, and upgrade capability etc. "After being awarded as Top 100 Innovators in 2007, we continued our efforts towards developing other innovative products, this time for travel & hospitality industry. While industry has just started talking about importance of Cloud Computing and SaaS in Travel & Hospitality industry, we have already launched our product on Travel Cloud." says Mr. Saurabh Mehta, CEO, TravelCarma.
About TravelCarma TravelCarma, promoted by Avani Cimcon Technologies., is a suite of enterprise level, completely modular SaaS solutions that provides complete IT infrastructure for Travel & Hospitality businesses. It enables the companies leveraging IT for their business growth at an affordable price. TravelCarma also provides first-of-its-kind Social e-commerce system which includes a complete booking portal with booking engine and other modules which runs entirely inside facebook. The solutions caters to all the entities of travel & hospitality industry including small to enterprise travel agent, tour operator, hotels, wholesalers, restaurants, buses, tourism organizations, car rentals, etc. Media Contact: Mr. Hiren Yadav Sr. Manager – Marketing www.travelcarma.com hiren@travelcarma.com 1-904 328 3090, 91-79-2687 2171
THAI HOTEL AND HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION SELECTS AVANI CIMCON TECHNOLOGIES AS TECHNOLOGY PARTNER FOR TRAVEL PORTAL The Thai Hotel and Hospitality Management Association (THMA) announced today that they have awarded Avani Cimcon Technologies the contract to utilize Avani Cimcon’s travel solutions for their On-line Direct Travel & Booking Portal and as their Travel Technology Consultants. Customers will direct-book hotels, auto rentals, excursions and restaurants by using the state of the art booking engine. The on-line portal will provide a user friendly environment as well as rich and informing media provided by the Associations 160+ members. As this is a direct booking model, with no middle man, the cost savings are passed on to the consumer. THMA is one of the most unique and progressive hotel entities in Thailand. Established in 2004, the main objective of the association is to focus on the marketing, training and development of small and medium size hotel entrepreneurs in Thailand. Presently, THMA has 160+ hotels members all over Thailand, ranging from 24 room resorts to 200 room properties. THMA aims to move forward to strengthen the marketing network concept by establishing a Central Reservation System under the name of Small Hotel Alliance Reservation Portal (SHARP) for added global distribution. Avani Cimcon Technologies. (avanicimcon.com) is global IT Company specializing in Travel technology based in the United States. They bring 18+ years of software development experience to this project.
THE ARUBA HOTEL AND TOURISM ASSOCIATION (AHATA) SELECTS AVANI CIMCON TECHNOLOGIES AS TECHNOLOGY PARTNER FOR DESTINATION PORTAL The Aruba Hotel and Tourism Association (AHATA) announced today that they have awarded Avani Cimcon Technologies the contract to build their next generation destination portal. The new destination portal will provide a complete experience allowing the user to easily find, navigate and book their entire travel package with the association's 120+ members. Air, hotel, restaurants and excursions will be among the options offered through the portal. In addition, the site will contain rich media and social networking capabilities along with Association Member tools that will allow for Customer Relationship Management and site specific destination analysis. AHATA is one of the most unique and progressive hotel and tourism entities in the Americas. For more than four decades it has made significant contributions to Aruba's tourism industry by bringing together private sector ideas and funding in support of the industry and community at large. Avani Cimcon Technologies. (avanicimcon.com), based in Santa Rosa, CA, was co-founded by Lomesh Shah and Saurabh Mehta. Avani Cimcon is a global, innovative and leading edge IT company with clients in Australia, New Zealand, Greece and the US. They bring 15 years of software development experience to this project, while specializing in the travel, retail and financial services verticals.

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Avani Cimcon Technologies is proud to announce the recent achievement of our software solution - DXchange. We have been short-listed by NASSCOM to be profiled in the listing of NASSCOM's 100 IT Innovators - 2007 at www.nasscom.in/100itinnovators. DXchange is short-listed as one of the best innovation in the category of "Market facing innovation". This initiative of NASSCOM recognizes the organizations that have made innovation a part of their DNA and developed extraordinary and pioneering products and services. It showcases innovation in India and aims to provide a perspective on the concept of innovation and on how Indian IT-ITES companies can explore its various facets.

Innovation is an important part of our growth strategies and has emerged with an Intellectual Property. It is an implied promise to our customers and prospects that we are striving constantly to provide with all new technological possibilities helping them achieve their business objective.

The NASSCOM IT Innovation in India award aims to encourage, support and reward innovative and breakthrough solutions, approaches and recognizes the people and the organizations behind these endeavors. Avani Cimcon Technologies is proud to be a part of this wonderful league of innovators!