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Sabre® Advanta.Res^SM Internet booking engine is a cost-effective solution featuring choice, value and flexibility for your customers. Advanta.Res can help you expand your online business by reaching and retaining more customers. And Advanta.Res offers special features, such as low-fare search options and seat map displays, that your online customers will value greatly.

Key benefits

Offers popular Sabre system features, such as weather and destination information, for your Web site
Includes access to negotiated fares
Features graphical seat map displays
Enables customers to book travel with your agency 24 hours a day, seven days a week
Offers multi-language and multicurrency options, and displays price and availability simultaneously

FEATuRES

Powered by the Sabre® global distribution system, Advanta.Res provides users with all the main booking options, as well as a number of value-added tools that can enhance the booking process.

Standard Features. With Advanta.Res, your customers have access to all the core tools needed to book travel online, including:

The ability to select air, car and hotel availability, rates and other travel information from more than 400 airlines, 52 car rental companies and 55,000 hotel properties.
The freedom to select travel dates based on a particular airfare – offered through our Fare-led Pricing feature.
The benefit of accessing up-to-date gate and flight arrival and departure information.
The choice of multiple languages in which to make the booking.
The option of receiving travel itinerary information via e-mail.
The ability to input personal travel preferences and frequent travel/guest numbers into the system.
The capability of viewing, modifying and/or canceling reservations online.

Value-Added Tools. The Advanta.Res booking engine also includes the following tools to greater simplify and enhance the booking experience:

Site Manager – This new tool allows you to have complete control of your booking engine. You can configure your site, load it into production and then modify it anytime you like. You do not need to complete any forms – it’s all done online.
Web Site Traffic Reporting – Provides you with access to site traffic reports when you subscribe to these services with a third-party vendor.
Profile Pass Through – Enables you to integrate and maintain your own existing profile database within your Web site.
Profile Download – Allows you to download a file containing the traveler profiles your customers have created on your site. Perfect for customer relationship management purposes!
Main Menu Bypass – Your customers have quick access to requested air, car or hotel pages via buttons on your home page.
Partner Tracking – This allows you to establish an identifier in the URL so you can track the passenger name records (PNRs) generated from your partner or affiliate sites.
Premium Look and Feel –Configure custom look and feel through Cascading Style Sheets. Customize header and footer through HTML tags.

Mutual Benefits. With the Advanta.Res Internet booking engine, your customers receive all the tools necessary to shop for and book air, rental cars and hotels. Plus, they receive value-added tools that make the booking process more efficient and enjoyable. And, as your business grows, you can easily upgrade your Web site. Grow your online business with a comprehensive tool designed to fit within your budget. For more information about this Internet booking engine option, visit www.sabre.com or contact your Sabre account executive.

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Sabre Advanta.Res offers a lot of flexibility for you and your customers.

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Contact your local Sabre Travel Network customer support team or you can send us an e-mail.

Where Available

Sabre Advanta.Res is available in:

Latin America (English, Spanish and Portuguese)
Mexico (English and Spanish)

Technical Requirements

Advanta.Res is built upon a multi-layer product platform designed to promote re-use and provide easy extensibility. Its architecture adopts Java, J2EE and XML families of technology to deliver a robust, scalable travel service delivery solution. Within these families are industry standard APIs and packages – including XML, XSLT, JNDI, and JDBC– that form the base of the entire system.

Browser Requirements

The recommended browsers are:

Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher (PCs)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.1 (Macintosh® computers)
Netscape® 4.75 or higher
AOL® 7.0 software or higher

Training And Support

Users of Sabre Advanta.Res should have a good working knowledge of the Internet. We also offer training tools and resources at Agency eServices. Our help desk is available to help serve your needs.