Agents Can Now Create Customized Travel Packages on the Fly Between More Than 1500 Destinations with TripTailor from Sabre Hold
August 08 2006 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Sabre Holdings (NYSE: TSG) today announced the launch of
TripTailor(TM), the newest addition to the Sabre Holdings family of
travel brands. TripTailor is a new travel wholesaler business from
Sabre that is part of its one-stop shop offerings for travel
agencies to create customized trips for their customers - a unique
travel package built specifically for each traveler to more than
1,500 destinations throughout the United States and around the
world. With the debut of TripTailor, Sabre(R) connected agents gain
the capability to easily search for the best and most
cost-effective combination of air, hotel, car and travel extras for
both advanced and last-minute bookings. TripTailor provides a
single source on an agent's desktop to shop for packages available
worldwide, offering more than 1,700 travel extras in over 150
destinations, including admission or reservations to attractions,
shows, special events, tours, fine dining, transfers, parking and
many more activities, as well as travel protection. Agents can book
fully customized vacations including flights to more than 200,000
city pairs months in advance, or just prior to departure for long
or short, domestic or international, and budget or luxury
vacations. Agents access TripTailor directly through TripTailor.com
or through the MySabre(TM) agent booking portal. "Trip Tailor has
made travel agents and travel agencies a force to reckon with in
this competitive travel marketplace," said David Butler, president
of Travel Club Advantage. "On behalf of our agency and our many
clients, we say thank you and look forward to a continued
relationship in bringing great travel prices and packages to our
clients. We will be making use of it on a daily basis." According
to PhocusWright research, packaged travel is expected to reach $23
billion in 2006 - up from $15 billion in 2002. Not only is the
total packaged travel market growing, but the percent of dynamic
packages booked will also grow from 11% of all packages to 45% in
2006. "TripTailor offers a tremendous breadth of travel
alternatives and enables agents to search through all of them to
create a package that is, quite literally, tailored to the
individual traveler's needs, interests and tastes," said Dan
Westbrook, general manager of the new TripTailor brand. "Now,
agents have the opportunity to sell packaged travel on almost every
booking that involves more than one element of travel - and it puts
this capability on the agents' desktop -which means increased
efficiency, as well as improved customer value and additional
revenue opportunities. "TripTailor reinforces the expertise of the
travel professional, and provides 24-hour, toll-free support. We
are on call to be sure that what the travel agent sells is
delivered," Westbrook continued. TripTailor can be used for all
types of travel. By combining arrangements for flight, hotel and
rental car, and even making dining reservations and excursion
bookings simultaneously, travelers benefit with a lower price than
if they purchased everything separately, agents provide more value
to their customers, and the added value adds more to the agents'
bottom line as well. TripTailor is the first of the new offerings
to be announced that will be part of Sabre Travel Network's leisure
end-to-end portfolio, first announced in June. TripTailor joins the
existing Agent59(TM) last-minute package offering. Agent59 feeds
into TripTailor - when searching through TripTailor, if a better
deal is available through Agent59, the agent is alerted. "The real
key to TripTailor is the almost unlimited flexibility and choice it
offers - with myriad destinations and 1,700 travel extras, it
significantly expands the vacation package concept. Ultimately
TripTailor is designed to be a great partner for agencies looking
to boost their profitability and enrich the lives of their
travelers." About TripTailor TripTailor, a Sabre Holdings key
brand, is a travel wholesaler that provides travel agencies the
opportunity to offer packaged value everywhere their customers want
to go, bringing vacation dreams to life for consumers to over
200,000 origins and destination combinations. Through its
relationships with the world's leading airlines, hoteliers and
destination service providers, TripTailor enables travelers to have
a truly customized vacation experience. TripTailor values the
expertise of travel counselors in enhancing the travel experience,
and provides its products only through travel agencies. TripTailor
is a sister brand of Agent59 in North America, HolidaysAndMore in
the UK, TotalTrip in Argentina, and is part of Sabre Travel
Network's end-to-end suite for travel agents focused on leisure
travel. Sabre Holdings (NYSE: TSG) connects people with the world's
greatest travel possibilities by retailing travel products and
providing distribution and technology solutions for the travel
industry. More information about Sabre Holdings is available at
http://www.sabre-holdings.com. TripTailor, Agent 59, MySabre, Sabre
Holdings, Sabre Travel Network and Total Trip 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.
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