As Sabre began this summer to bring a new lodging program to corporate travel agencies and intermediaries, implementation wasn’t expected to be easy. SAP Concur made that much clear in a recent message to users, suggesting that they should not use Sabre’s new Content Services for Lodging via Concur Travel. According to Sabre, Concur missed…
Sabre expects to soon deliver to travel management company subscribers more efficient access to over a million hotel properties through its Content Services for Lodging program. Just like moving to application programming interfaces related to NDC, implementation takes a lot of work. DataArt, a tech consultancy and software builder, this month announced a Sabre-validated accelerator…
Travelport on August 1 will have a new chief executive officer as former Sabre vice chairman Greg Webb succeeds Gordon Wilson. Webb has been a senior vice president and general manager at Oracle Hospitality since June 2018. Before that he worked at Sabre for about 20 years, ultimately leading the Sabre Travel Network GDS business….
The United States Patent and Trademark Office in February granted Sabre a patent on “post-booking travel assistance and organization.” This covers some key functions in the Sabre TripCase mobile app. It came nearly a decade after Sabre applied for the designation and despite more recent comments about its lack of desire for patents. Sabre was…
American Airlines, American Express Global Business Travel, Carlson Wagonlit Travel and Flight Centre Travel Group joined with Sabre to develop, integrate and test New Distribution Capability-enabled offers and orders. Under the program, called Beyond NDC, these launch partners and Sabre would seek to integrate NDC with the “retailing, distribution and fulfillment systems that support the travel ecosystem,”…
Sabre intended to sunset its old traveler profile system by 2013, but Stars is still shining. The company of late told travel management company users they would be charged if they did not set a date for migration to the new(er) Sabre Profiles. “We have not charged anyone to date,” said Sabre Travel Network vice president…
Purchased for $757 million in 2000, the GetThere corporate booking tool is hardly mentioned in Sabre’s annual reports. The TripCase mobile app isn’t mentioned at all. As usual, neither came up during this morning’s earnings conference call. Along with Sabre’s virtual payments offering, these products have bounced around inside Sabre and had four leaders in…
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