NEWS RELEASE

1 September 2004

Konsortium Express and Tours uses Athena Bookings.

With the ever challenging and competitive outbound travel business in Singapore, Konsortium Express and Tours decides to appoint Athena to provide technology automation for the travel agency including their branch offices.

Konsortium will use Athena Bookings to manage overall operation activities of the agency, from reservation activities to back office accounting. The system will also provide full fledged tour packaging module for the creation of GIT, FIT and MICE packages.

"We hope with Athena's expertise and products, we will be able to manage the operations in more orderly manner and increase productivity for the company. The system looks user-friendly and sophisticated; it will certainly help us to grow even faster by creating more destination packages and reduce our operation overheads." said Lotus Ooi, Operations Manager.

About Konsortium Express and Tours Pte Ltd
Konsortium Express and Tours is one of leading outbound coach operation and Malaysian travel package providers in Singapore. With 5 branches all over Singapore (Golden Mile Tower and Complex, Boon Lay, Apollo and Sun Plaza), Konsortium offers comprehensive travel packages and in-house coach operations to Malaysia and other destinations.