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Fujitsu Case Study: Thomas Cook

Overview Thomas Cook is one of the world's leading travel and financial services groups. thomascook.com knew that it needed to enable its customers to search, based on specific requirements, over 2 million holidays and deliver results fast. In addition, Thomas Cook wished to encourage customers to use its online booking facility and create multiple access to it by delivering the service to mobile devices, such as WAP phones and PDAs. Fujitsu has worked closely with thomascook.com to develop a complete online travel service across multiple channels.

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Publisher	Fujitsu	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	November 2004
Format	Case Studies
Topics	WAP

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