Sabre Launches Web-Based Cruise Booking Tool for Travel Agents; Sabre Cruises Saves Time, Enhances Customer Service and Increase
June 08 2005 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Sabre Travel Network, a Sabre Holdings (NYSE:TSG) company, today
announced the launch of Sabre Cruises, a browser-based cruise
shopping and booking tool for travel agents that offers exceptional
graphical content and industry-leading tools for group and
inventory management, revenue management and Web site integration.
In a partnership with OurVacationStore, Sabre now offers agents in
North America a cruise booking tool that helps them enhance their
revenue opportunities through high-margin cruise sales both offline
and online, serve their customers more effectively by providing
rich and relevant information in a graphical format, and increase
profit through reduced research time and revenue management. With
Sabre Cruises agents can help customers make more informed travel
choices with more than 200,000 pages of rich graphical content,
including descriptions of ports of call, ship views and deck plans,
attraction information, maps, overviews of itineraries and more.
Using the integrated Web site tool, agents can provide travelers
with complete cruise shopping and booking capabilities on the
agent's Web site, bringing added value to the agent and providing
customers the ability to shop and book through their preferred
agent 24 hours a day. Sabre Cruises also helps agents ensure
optimized returns through features within the revenue management
tool. This tool allows agents to load their negotiated rates with
specific rate codes into Sabre Cruises as well as apply filters,
such as minimum commission requirements, to cruise line inventory
so they can understand at any time which sailing presents the best
revenue opportunities. "Sabre Cruises will give travel experts the
information and efficiency to provide better customer service while
increasing their own revenue," said Chris Kroeger, senior vice
president, Sabre Travel Network, North America. "This tool helps
agents pursue the high-revenue, high-margin opportunities provided
through retailing cruises. The addition of Sabre Cruises is another
example of the Sabre GDS's evolution to a Travel Marketing System."
Sabre Cruises provides agents access to automated shopping and
booking for nine cruise lines -- Carnival, Celebrity, Crystal,
Disney, Holland America, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Princess, Royal
Caribbean and Windstar -- representing over 85 percent of Cruise
Lines International Association (CLIA) members. Using this tool,
they can easily present customers a selection that best fits the
travelers' custom requirements. Additionally, Sabre Cruises
provides easy options for up-selling cabin categories and selling
pre-and post-sailing packages. Sabre Cruises is available now
free-of-charge through the Sabre Agency eServices Website for Sabre
Connected agencies and will be available later this year on the
MySabre portal platform. 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 50,000 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, 32 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 products and 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 Cruises, Sabre Connected, Agency
eServices, MySabre, GetThere and Jurni Network are trademarks
and/or service marks of Sabre Holdings Corporation. All other
trademarks, service marks, and trade names are the property of
their respective owners.
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