NR SCS Solars announces pricing for TourTrek Service Bureau
09:58 GMT-04:00 Tuesday, April 17, 2001
SCS Solars announces pricing for the TourTek Service Bureau
Vancouver, B.C. - April 16, 2001 - SCS Solars Computing Systems Inc. ("SCS"), a leading provider of information management and electronic distribution solutions for the travel industry, today released pricing on the TourTek Service Bureau offering for small to mid-sized tour operators.
TourTek, a wholly owned subsidiary of SCS, will power the Service Bureau. TourTek is a robust inventory management and reservation system for tour operators that utilizes an Oracle 8i database and Windows 'point and click' navigation. The TourTek Service Bureau will offer similar functionality to that offered in a full in-house system at a fraction of the cost. The modules being offered in the TourTek Service Bureau, at this time, include the base, payables and group modules.
Each tour operator's data will be housed on their own 100% secure Oracle database disc partition. This enables TourTek to guarantee the integrity of the Service Bureau's customers product.
The TourTek Service Bureau is priced to be very affordable to the smaller tour operator with a 'pay as they go' pricing structure. The cost of the service to tour operators is an up front, one-time payment of US$ 1,000 per reservation clerk. There is a mandatory US$ 5,000 cost for training up to six people in Toronto for a total of twelve days and a US$8 per departed passenger fee. There is also a small monthly charge of US$500 that will be waived if the departed passenger fees exceed US$500 during the month.
"We have priced the Service Bureau as inexpensively as we could to give smaller tour operators the advantage of the technology offered by our TourTek system. The response so far has been very encouraging and our plan is to take this concept to Europe and beyond as the demand warrants," stated Larry O'Brien, Chairman and CEO of SCS.
"One of the goals we set out to meet when we first conceived of the TourTek system, was to be able to offer a world class solution to all segments of the Tour operator industry, irrespective of their size. Our announcement today fulfills that goal," stated John Latremouille, President of the TourTek division.
SCS Solars provides solutions in information management and electronic distribution for the travel industry. Proprietary products include SolarNet LiveLinx, LiveLinx*PLUS, NewsWire and TourTek. SCS Solars is a public company, trading on the Canadian Venture Exchange (CDNX) under the symbol SCS.
For more information contract:
Bob Wilson 604-903-2040
John Forde 905-709-1710