Sabre Travel Network Enhances Sabre Cruises Booking Tool
- From: "John Sisker" <jsisker@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 21:06:49 -0800
To Whom It May Concern:
We received this information from the trades and thought it would be of
interest to this newsgroup as well.
Happy sailing,
John Sisker, SHIP-TO-SHORE CRUISE AGENCY®
(714) 536-3850 or toll free at (800) 724-6644 & (Agency No. 714.536.3850)
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Sabre Travel Network Enhances Sabre Cruises Booking Tool... to Offer Leisure
Agents Increased Efficiency and Sales
Dec 05, 2007
New Comprehensive Online Cruise Shopping Capabilities Boost Luxury and
Home-Based Agents' Business Performance
SOUTHLAKE, Texas-- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Sabre Travel Network announced today
new enhancements to its highly efficient cruise shopping and booking tool,
Sabre Cruises, specifically tailored to boost business performance for
luxury and home-based travel agents.
"No matter what travel segment agents target, Sabre Travel Network is
committed to being there both with the technology and services as well as
the training and information about the industry they need to keep their
customers satisfied and ensure a successful business," said Lee Rosen,
president of TRAMS and vice president of the Sabre Travel Network leisure
segment. "We believe, and feedback from the agency community confirms, that
part of the path to continued relevance of the agency community and success
of their business is industry knowledge, coupled with appropriately
leveraged technology, marketing services and networking opportunities.
The latest enhancements announced today focus on leisure offerings for
cruise bookings, which continue to gain in appeal, as well as the number of
offerings from the cruise industry. Rosen's remarks were made as part of the
2007 Luxury Travel Expo and Home Based Travel Agent Expo and Conference in
Las Vegas this week.
The new enhancements to Sabre Cruises bring value to agents by improving
online cruise shopping capabilities, comprehensive passenger services, and
integrated customer relationship management.
Online Cruise Shopping
With the new features to Sabre Cruises agents can now:
Sort through search results by port of embarkation,
See sailings that only match their request,
Book an available category and, if a category is sold out, select up to
three waitlist categories all in the same booking,
Easily look up past passengers' frequent cruiser numbers,
Determine alternate passenger category pricing based on changing factors
such as a passenger's age, insurance selection, origination city,
transportation or number of passenger in a cabin.
Comprehensive Passenger Services
Sabre has also added new capabilities at the passenger level. Sabre Cruises
allows agents to book additional trip components on a passenger-by-passenger
basis, including:
Insurance,
Cruise line air add-on, and
Pre-trip and post-trip packages.
Integrated Customer Relationship Management
Sabre Cruises will support Live Connect from TRAMS for all ClientBase agents
in the coming weeks.
The Live Connect feature will provide a direct connection to the Sabre
Cruises booking engine, with a two-way transfer of information. With Live
Connect, in one click, a user can automatically log in to Sabre Cruises, use
the client's profile to make Sabre Cruises reservations, and import
reservation details back into the client's Res Card in ClientBase. Agents
marketing cruises to their existing clients have the potential to grow their
repeat business rates from the average 20 percent to more than 80 percent
through ClientBase.
Now more than ever, travel agents have the ability to find the right cruise
to fit their clients' preferences and budgets. Sabre Cruises gives travel
agents direct access to 12 cruise lines all from a single source, offering
multiple cabin categories including suites for luxury travelers. Serving
luxury travelers is especially important, because they not only spend more
on cruises, but cruise more often. According to Cruise Lines International
Association (CLIA), luxury cruisers cruise nearly three times as frequently
as average cruisers (9.1 times compared to 3.4 times). Sabre Cruises saves
home-based and luxury agents time in servicing frequent VIP clients.
"We are committed to making travel agents' jobs easier by developing and
delivering products to help them improve productivity, as well as increase
sales," Rosen continued. "Our goal is to meet agents' needs before the needs
become problems. We're all about new horizons and new opportunities for all
agents large and small."
Attendees at the Luxury Travel Show and Home Based Travel Agent Expo and
Conference will have opportunities to see these enhancements and learn more
about the comprehensive leisure offerings in Sabre's exhibition spaces:
For the Luxury Travel Expo, booth #459
For the Home Based Travel Agent Expo, booth #313 for Trip Tailor, Sabre
Cruises and VacationStudio; booth #414 for TRAMS Marketing Alliance; and
booth #412 for Nexion
Sabre Cruises is available free of charge to Sabre Connected travel agents.
It is also available on the VacationStudio tab of MySabre and
www.vacationstudio.com, the travel agent's one-stop source for
commissionable cruises, custom packages and vacations from their favorite
tour packagers and more.
In 2008, there will be even more opportunities to participate and learn
about ways agents can leverage technology and marketing services to adapt to
the ever-changing and challenging travel industry landscape. One of the
highlights of the year will be the TRAMS-sponsored Technology and Marketing
University (TMU) 2008 to be held at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas,
April 22 - 25. With over 80 interactive workshops and breakout sessions,
over 60 travel companies and suppliers presenting, and over 800 travel
professionals in attendance, the Technology and Marketing University has
grown to be the best thing that happens in Vegas. Registration and
information about TMU is available at http://www.trams.com/TMU08/index.html.
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. Currently, Sabre collectively handles over 70 percent of the BTN
100 bookings.
Key brands of Sabre Travel Network include GetThere, for corporate travel
reservation technology; Nexion, a host agency; SynXis, for hotel reservation
management, distribution and technology services; TRAMS, mid- and
back-office solutions and marketing services for travel agencies; and TRAMS
Marketing Alliance (TMA), a marketing promotions services for leisure travel
agencies. Sabre Travel Network also markets TripTailor Vacations, a travel
wholesaler providing dynamic packaging for the travel agency marketplace.
Sabre Holdings 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.
Sabre Travel Network
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