Amadeus Signs Premier Inn for Hotel Services as InterContinental Deal Steams Ahead
Skift Take
In the context of Amadeus Hospitality's progress, the Premier Inn deal gives a semblance of traction to woo other chains.
Amadeus has made a big bet on tech services for the hotel industry, and InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has been its high-profile launch partner for Amadeus' new guest reservation system.
But Amadeus revealed Friday that the InterContinental rollout, which previously had been slated to take place in 2018, would now be delayed until 2019 at the request of the hotel chain.
CORRECTION: A mistaken notion was introduced during the conference call. In questions during a call with analysts, an analyst said that Amadeus had previously said InterContinental would have its rollout through 2018 and asked about what appeared to be a delay. This mistake was not clearly corrected during the call.
Amadeus's executives said that they don't talk about customer's timetables but that everything was fine on their end and that sometimes customers request a slowed pace to fit with their own business needs.
