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Will Travelport’s New Tech Help the Company Regain Market Share?

2021-02-24 by Phil Butler

Travelport logo

Travelport rebrands in preparation for a much anticipated new tech rollout. All concerned wonder if the company can truly innovate.

Tags: aggregators, airlines, Apollo, Elliott Management Corporation, Elliott Opportunity II Corp., GDS, GDS companies, Greg Webb, Paul Singer, retail travel Amadeus, Sabre, Sabre holdings, stocks, travel aggregators, travel bookings, travel tech, travel technology, Worldspan

Global Travel and Tours Taps Sabre As Exclusive Tech Provider

2020-09-08 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Suhaib Kidwai

Bahrain travel agency Global Travel and Tours has signed an exclusive multi-year agreement with Sabre Corporation.

Tags: Bahrain, digital travel, Global Travel and Tours, Sabre, Sabre Corporation, tech solutions, travel tech, travel technology

A Sabre Corporation Statement About Merger Agreement with Farelogix

2020-05-04 by Argophilia Travel News

Sabre

Sabre Corporation issued a statement recently from Sabre President and CEO Sean Menke regarding its merger agreement with Farelogix.

Tags: airfares, CMA, Farelogix, mergers, Sabre, Sabre Corporation, technology, technology providers, travel tech

Sabre Corporation All Set to Acquire Innovator Farelogix

2018-11-18 by Argophilia Travel News

Sabre

Sabre Corporation announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Farelogix, a recognized innovator in the travel industry with advanced offer management and NDC order delivery technology used by many of the world’s leading airlines. Sabre expects that upon close, the acquisition will allow the company to accelerate delivery of its end-to-end NDC-enabled retailing, distribution and fulfillment solutions.

Tags: airfares, Farelogix, Sabre, technology, technology provider, tourism tech, travel tech

Sabre Labs Reveals Tech Trends a Dozen Years Out

2016-12-23 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Sabre Technologies report

Sabre Labs, a division of Sabre Corporation, has just released research on how the latest technologies that can have a significant impact on the tourism sector. The report unveils the potential for the next twelve years and tells of three major tech trends that will affect the tourism market for 2017.

Tags: Sabre, Sabre Corporation, Sabre Corporation 2017, Sabre Labs, tech, tech trends, travel tech

Sabre developing travel services for emerging wearable technology

2014-11-13 by Phil Butler

wearable tech from Sabre

Sabre Corporation is developing travel services that work across the emerging spectrum of wearable technology including smartwatches and Google Glass, preparing for the dramatic impact wearables will have on the way consumers shop for and experience travel.

Tags: press release, Sabre, Sabre technology, travel tech, wearable tech

Sabre and Azerbaijan Airlines pen new deal

2014-10-22 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Sabre

Travel agents in Azerbaijan now get the benefit of more efficient booking Azerbaijan Airlines via the Sabre global distribution system.

Tags: airlines, Azerbaijan, Sabre, tech

Sabre Introduces HRS Properties Content

2014-10-17 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Sabre has just announced the addition fo HRS content, giving agents far more flexibility and choice for serving clients.

Tags: hotels, HRS, news, Sabre, travel agents

Sabre Acquires Genares Global Hospitality Solutions

2014-09-14 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Sabre

Last week Sabre Corporation announced having acquired Genares, a global hospitality technology company. According to the news, Genares will strengthen Sabre’s hotelier partnership offerings worldwide. Specific terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Tags: hospitality, hotels, Sabre

Sabre to Auction Off Lastminute

2014-08-18 by Phil Butler

Sabre Holdings is to sell Lastminute.com according to their announcement. The advisory firm of Houlihan Lokey will oversee the auction of the once profitable booking platform.

Tags: booking, booking sites, Houlihan Lokey, LastMinute, Sabre, Sabre holdings

Q1 Profit and Loss: Weeding Out the OTAs

2014-05-09 by Phil Butler

In a 2014 economy seemingly stagnated OTAs and other travel businesses are feeling some pain. This is not the case for Priceline Group, which just showed a 1st quarter earnings jump of some 36% on international bookings. However, this company’s gain is evidently Orbitz’s and other digital travel business loss. Are we seeing a “weeding out” of good travel entities versus bad ones?

Tags: booking sites, Booking.com, Expedia, lastminute.com, Orbitz, OTA's, SABR, Sabre, travel sites, Travelocity

Lastminute’s UK Boss Flies As Sabre IPO Takes Off

2014-04-21 by Aleksandr Shatskih

lastminute logo

News this weekend lastminute.com UK boss Mark Maddock had quit brought on rumors Sabre may be planning to sell the travel entity.

Tags: hospitality, lastminute.com, OTA's, Sabr Corp. Sabre IPO, Sabre, Sabre Stock, Travelocity

Sabre announces pricing of initial public offering

2014-04-17 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Sabre

Sabre Corporation (“Sabre”), a leading technology solutions provider to the global travel and tourism industry, today announced that it has priced its initial public offering…

Tags: GDS, IPO, Sabre, travel

Sabre and Marriott Pen Deal

2013-10-25 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Sabre news

Travel distribution giant Sabre has just announced having signed a new long term distribution agreement with Marriott International

Tags: distribution, GDS, global distribution, HRS, Marriott, room distribution, Sabre

Sabre Hospitality Solutions Boosts Europe Hotels Tools

2013-05-07 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Sabre Hospitality Solutions

Yesterday, Sabre Hospitality Solutions announced the expansion of their Internet marketing products and services across Europe with the launch of WebExpress. WebExpress, available for European, Middle Eastern, and Asian hotels, provides a managers and staff with a combination of tools for visibility and web traffic, and etc. Monique Jaspers-Wijn, vice president business development, EMEA, for […]

Tags: Europe hotels, GDS, hotel marketing, hotels, marketing, ppc, Sabre, Sabre Hospitality

Sabre Introduces Virtual Credit Card Services for TMCs

2012-02-02 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Sabre Solutions landing page

Sabre, the global travel industry technology solutions provider, has announced that the UK will be its testing ground for the launch of a new, streamlined hotel booking payment process for travel management companies (TMCs).

Tags: Conferma, Global travel industry, Sabre, technology solutions, TMCs, travel and expense booking solutions, travel industry technology, Travel Settlement Services, virtual credit card

Selling Soap, Seats, & Other Hospitality Services In 2012

2011-12-28 by Phil Butler

Online travel

An article on Tnooz last Friday peaked our interest, Xotels boss Patrick Landman offering up key variables in what will become the biggest online trade war ever. When Google, all the big corporate OTAs, and key independent online travel entities lock horns for a final round, a few will not be left standing.

Tags: airlines, American Airlines, Bookings, Delta, Expedia, GDS, GHX, Global Hotel Exchange, Google, Google Flight Search, Google hotel finder, hotel bookings, hotel finder, hotels, Magnuson, Magnuson Hotels, Orbitz, OTA, rate parity, rooms, Sabre, seats, Tom Magnuson

Travelport & Orbitz Safe for Now – and Tomorrow?

2011-10-01 by Phil Butler

Jeff Clarke

Everyone associated with Travelport has to have breathed a sigh of relief on the news that Travelport Holdings successfully revamped their debt, extending their PIK until December of 2016. Unanimous support from their lenders now ensures the travel giants ongoing operations.

Tags: Expedia, Facebook, G+, Google, Gordon Wilson, Hilton, Hilton Hotels, InsideTrip, Jeff Clarke, Jetsetter, Offbeat Guides, Orbitz, Oyster, Room 77, Sabre, Travelocity, Travelport Limited, TripAdvisor, Twitter

Sabre and South African Airways Deals

2011-07-12 by Aleksandr Shatskih

South African Airlines landing page

South African Airways and Sabre Travel Network have just penned a multi-year deal for Sabre to distribute South African’s fares across Sabre’s vast global network.

Tags: Africa Travel, African airlines, air fares, air travel, Sabre, Sabre travel, Sabre Travel Network, South Africa travel, South African Airlways, travel distribution

GetYourGuide: Swiss Movement for Tours

2011-07-08 by Phil Butler

GetYourGuide offices Berlin

Travel and tourism in the digital world is branching out in “pioneer” fashion more and more these days. One startup we took a look at today, GetYourGuide, illustrates vividly what is possible with the right people behind an endeavor. GetYourGuide, founded in 2008, is a development that has been hard at work becoming the digital world’s tour and specialty activity “go to” platform.

Tags: activity booking, city tours, City-Discovery, CrunchBase, Expedia, GetYourGuide, isango!, Johannes Reck, Martin Sieber, online marketing, OTA's, Pascal Mathis, Sabre, Tao Tao, tickets, Tobias Rein, tour bookings, tourism, travel tools, TripAdvisor, Viator

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