Sabre Travel Network Enhances Tour Offering for Travel Agents to Provide Great Vacation Deals
April 07 2004 - 9:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
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/
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