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National GetThere Survey Identifies Ten Most Cost-Effective U.S. 'Meeting' Locations Jacksonville, Florida Tops GetThere's List for Second Year in a Row MENLO PARK, Calif., Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- GetThere, the leading provider of online corporate travel reservation systems, serving more than 1000 companies, including over half the Fortune 200, today announced results from its national survey that identifies the ten most cost-effective locations for corporate meetings. For the second year in a row, Jacksonville, Florida ranks as the most economic location for corporate meetings, according to results generated by GetThere's online meeting planning tool -- GetThere DirectMeetings. Columbus, Ohio, and Raleigh, North Carolina, both new to the list, followed in second and third place respectively. "It's important for corporations to understand the cost-savings that efficient meeting planning can provide," said Mike Malinchok, director of meetings products, GetThere. "Companies are continuing to reduce expenses and see the value in combining online meetings technology with online travel reservations systems. By integrating these two technologies with cost- effective meeting locations, corporations can achieve even greater cost- savings." To identify the ten cities, GetThere planned a mock three night, four-day meeting made up of one hundred attendees, with two attendees coming from each of the top fifty most populated cities as ranked by the U.S. Census Bureau. GetThere DirectMeetings evaluated cities with a minimum of twenty-five three or four-star hotel properties that included business services as part of their amenities, leveraging information from its database of 12,000 hotel properties. The online system took into account air and ground transportation for all attendees, room accommodations, meeting room rates, audio-visual equipment and estimated food and beverage expenses. Results were tabulated and ranked based on overall meeting cost. The ten most affordable meeting cities compiled by GetThere DirectMeetings: 1. Jacksonville, Florida 2. Columbus, Ohio 3. Raleigh, North Carolina 4. Knoxville, Tennessee 5. Nashville, Tennessee 6. Indianapolis, Indiana 7. Greensboro, North Carolina 8. Norfolk, Virginia 9. Milwaukee, Wisconsin 10. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania About GetThere DirectMeetings GetThere DirectMeetings offers one integrated system for corporate travel managers to strategically manage meeting and transient travel expenses -- resulting in immediate travel procurement efficiencies. The integration simplifies the entire experience for meeting arrangers, meeting attendees and corporate travel managers, providing comprehensive meeting site selection, automated attendee management and group travel booking all from a corporation's intranet. In addition, corporations can now customize individual meeting registration sites with branded logos, colors and content to integrate the online meeting attendee experience with the meeting content -- while working within the company-supported online environment. About GetThere GetThere(R), a Sabre Holdings company(TM), is the leading provider of Web- based travel reservation systems for corporations and airlines. Its online booking system is used by more than 1000 companies, including over half of the Fortune 200. GetThere provides Web-based travel procurement including air, hotel, car and meeting planning to employees at leading corporations such as American Management Systems, Boeing, ChevronTexaco, Cisco, Honeywell, PricewaterhouseCoopers and SBC Communications. GetThere also powers Web-based travel booking for leading airlines, including Air New Zealand, Alitalia, All Nippon Airways, Aloha Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways and United Airlines. Sabre Holdings Corporation (NYSE:TSG) is a world leader in travel commerce, 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/ . More information about GetThere can be found at http://www.getthere.com/ . DATASOURCE: GetThere CONTACT: Michelle Sibbitt of GetThere, +1-682-605-2244, or Web site: http://www.getthere.com/ http://www.sabre-holdings.com/

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