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CTM adds Abacus top Australian agency award
CORPORATE Travel Management won the Top Australian Agency award in the global distribution system Abacus International Conference Awards, presented in Abu Dhabi on October 17.
The travel industry’s prestigious supplier-voted awards recognise outstanding achievement and performance among travel agencies operating in the highly competitive Asia Pacific region. 
The awards were part of a three day conference, coined ‘Breaking New Ground’, which hosted more than 500 leaders from the Asia Pacific travel industry to debate the latest travel technology innovations and the trends now driving booking behaviour.
Abacus International wholly owns Sabre Pacific, a leading provider of technology to the travel industry in the South Pacific region. Corporate Travel Management (CTM) utilises the Sabre global distribution system (GDS) for booking clients’ corporate travel in Australia and New Zealand.
CTM’s CEO for Australia and New Zealand, Laura Ruffles said, “We are thrilled to have been acknowledged by our peers as the best agency in the Asia Pacific region. Winning such an award is testament to the shared vision that CTM and our valued partners hold in providing our clients with customised solutions and innovative travel technologies on a local and global scale.”
This latest award for CTM marks another highly successful year, having taken the 2014 AFTA award for Australia’s Best Corporate Travel Management Company for the ninth time in 11 years.
CTM entered the Asian travel market in November 2013 with the acquisition of Westminster Travel, and further extended is US footprint with the acquisition of USTravel and Avia International Travel.
The company now operates out of 37 cities in 15 countries.
CTM is also a network partner of International Leaders, having been a successful graduate and now supporter of its foundation organisation, Queensland Leaders, which works to foster a new generation of leading Australian companies.
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