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Sabre Travel Network Enhances Tour Offering for Travel Agents to
Provide Great Vacation Deals
Exceptional Tour Opportunities for Agent Customers Offered Through New Sabre
Vacations Booking Engine and Additional Tour Operator
SOUTHLAKE, Texas, April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Sabre Travel Network, the Sabre
Holdings business that connects travel suppliers and agents through the world's
leading global distribution system (GDS), today announced the new Sabre
Vacations tour product and the introduction of a new tour operator, Air Jamaica
Vacations, to the Sabre Tours system. These tour offering enhancements are both
available in the Sabre system and offer great vacation deals for agents to
provide their customers and simplify the bookingof tour packages.
Sabre Connected agents in the U.S. now have access to Sabre Vacations, a
private-label version of Trisept Solutions' VAX Vacation Access product. Sabre
Vacations brings Sabre Connected agents this Web-based vacation package booking
engine with access to the best promotions, consumer deals, high- commission
vacation packages and unique agency offers from top brand names such as
Adventure Tours, Funjet Vacations, Southwest Airlines Vacations, and Club Med,
among others. It includes access to special pricing and agency incentives, new
travel content such as hotel pictures, destination information, and easy-to-use
functionality for booking complex vacation packages through an easy
point-and-click on the browser that is familiar to most agents. Agents can
increase revenue by adding service fees to the travel packages from
participating tour operators. Sabre Vacations creates a Sabre system passenger
name record at the end of the booking process for easy reservations management.
"As beta testers of Sabre Vacations we found the booking process to be very user
friendly. We enjoyed being able to change the components, such as air and
hotel, quickly without having to start over, and how the product allowed us to
create a tracking number, since we do not always have the passenger's name when
pricing," said Nancy Krogmann, senior agent for Navigant Vacations.
"Additionally, we found the breakdown of pricing as a nice feature to have for
our specific accounting purposes. We appreciate using the system and are so
glad it now interfaces with the Sabre GDS directly."
"Meeting the needs identified by our customers is our first priority," said Hugh
Jones, senior vice president of Sabre Travel Network, North America. "Agencies
have asked us to provide a user-friendly, graphical vacation package booking
engine. We are now offering this and also adding Air Jamaica Vacations to an
extensive list of participating tour operators, so agents can offer great
vacation deals to their customers."
The complete list of vacation brands available through the Sabre Vacations
private-label VAX includes Adventure Tours USA, AeroMexico Vacations, ATA
Vacations, Club Med, Continental Airlines Vacations, Delta Vacations, Funjet
Vacations, Future Vacations, MGM Mirage Vacations, Midwest Airlines Vacations,
Mountain Vacations, Southwest Airlines Vacations, TransGlobal Vacations, United
Vacations, Universal Parks & Resorts Vacations and US Airways Vacations. Agents
who have used VAX will find Sabre Vacations familiar. The intuitive display
contains everything necessary to book vacation packages, including vacation
package details, and complete hotel, vacation feature and destination
information. Sabre Vacations can be accessed at no charge to agents by
registering through Sabre Travel Network's Agency eServices site.
Air Jamaica Vacations has been added to Sabre Tours, the system that allows
Sabre Connected agents to access tour operators in order to book vacation
packages. The system now has 60 tour operators. Air Jamaica Vacations is now
also available in Sabre Vacations.
"Teaming with Sabre Travel Network in order to provide our content through their
system is a win-win situation for us," said Bryan Shilling, president of Air
Jamaica Vacations. "Because we are now distributing our content through the
largest North American GDS, we will expand our audience reach and increase our
global visibility. Additionally, this move will help us reduce cost associated
with call center bookings by moving us to an electronic distribution model."
Sabre Tours enables electronic tour product distribution and reservation
processing. The application features a mask-driven, common display of all tour
products, providing agents with instant access to leading tour operator systems.
The product provides true availability, up-to-date information and booking
capability with immediate confirmations.
About Sabre Travel Network
Sabre Travel Network, a Sabre Holdings company, provides access to the world's
leading global distribution system (GDS) enabling agents at more than 53,000
agency locations worldwide to be travel experts. The Sabre GDS, the first
system to connect the buyers and sellers of travel, today includes more than 400
airlines, approximately 60,000 hotels, 41 car rental companies, nine cruise
lines, 35 railroads and 220 tour operators. Key brands of Sabre Travel Network
include GetThere, the leading Web-based corporate travel reservation technology,
and Jurni Network, the unique leisure travel agency consortium that enables
members to sell more products from preferred travel suppliers using
sophisticated market intelligence.
Sabre Holdings Corporation (NYSE:TSG) is a world leader in travel commerce,
retailing travel productsand providing distribution and technology solutions
for the travel industry. More information about Sabre Holdings is available at
http://www.sabre-holdings.com/ .
Sabre Travel Network, Sabre Vacations, GetThere, Jurni Network, Sabre Tours and
Sabre Connected are trademarks and/or service marks of an affiliate of Sabre
Holdings Corporation. All other trademarks, service marks, and trade names are
the property of their respective owners.
DATASOURCE: Sabre Travel Network
CONTACT: Nanci Williams of Sabre Travel Network, +1-682-605-2271, or
Web site: http://www.sabre-holdings.com/