Enhancements to Sabre Cruises Provide More Streamlined Shopping, Booking Process
30 March 2007 - 9:00PM
Business Wire
Sabre Travel Network, the world's largest and most rewarding
marketplace for buying and selling travel, has added new
enhancements to its browser-based cruise booking engine Sabre
Cruises. The new features provide Sabre Connected travel agents
features that enhance their customer service when shopping and
booking the 13 cruise lines available in Sabre. �With these new
enhancements, booking cruises in Sabre Cruises is even easier and
more streamlined than before,� said Dan Westbrook, vice president
of merchandising, Sabre Travel Network. �Travel agents benefit from
managing every aspect of their cruise sales efficiently and
professionally while earning great commissions.� Agents can shop
and compare cruise lines, get live inventory, book automated group
rates, view deck plans, cabins, choose dining preference and can
even book pre- and post-sailing packages. With the latest
enhancements to Sabre Cruises, agents now also get: Enhanced
documentation, including the ability to print agent and customer
invoice deck plans, cabin pictures and more Integration with
ClientBase+ including the ability to LiveConnect into Sabre Cruises
so they can track and retain detailed customers records Expanded
passenger information, including more flexibility with name fields
More pricing options earlier in the shopping process, including the
ability to review special resident, senior, past passenger, child
fare or 3rd/4th passenger prices Functionality that enables them to
clone a booking, making multiple bookings much faster. �Since the
launch in November 2006, cruise bookings in Sabre Cruises have
doubled,� said Westbrook. �Our customers love how easy and fast it
is, and how much control they have over the end-to-end process
compared to booking by phone. And we are really excited about
enhancing the functionality of Sabre Cruises in a way that makes
both the travel agents and our cruise partners more efficient and
more profitable.� In an announcement made by Sabre earlier today,
Sabre Cruises is now available to all travel professionals in North
America, including agents that currently do not participate in the
Sabre GDS, through the new VacationStudio powered by MySabre.
VacationStudio, the latest addition to Sabre�s end-to-end leisure
collection, provides convenient access to a broad range of
commissionable leisure travel products through such solutions as
Sabre Cruises, TripTailor, Agent59 and more. About Sabre Travel
Network Sabre Travel Network, a Sabre Holdings company, provides
the most comprehensive end-to-end solutions for corporate and
leisure travel. The Sabre GDS is the foundation for these
solutions, providing a ready-built efficient marketplace that
connects travel suppliers, including hundreds of airlines and
thousands of hotels, with more than 50,000 travel agency locations.
Key brands of Sabre Travel Network include GetThere, for corporate
travel reservation technology; Jurni Network, a consortium of
leisure travel agencies providing marketing and promotion services;
Nexion, a host agency; SynXis, for hotel reservation management,
distribution and technology services; and TRAMS, mid- and
back-office solutions and marketing services for travel agencies.
Sabre Travel Network also markets TripTailor, a travel wholesaler
providing dynamic packaging for the travel agency marketplace.
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.
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