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Sabre Vacations

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Sabre® Vacations is a graphical, Web-based vacation package booking engine that makes it easy for you to better market, access, and sell vacation packages from leading tour operators. It’s a private-label version of Trisept’s successful VAX VacationAccess, used by more than 56,000 travel agents at more than 23,000 agencies. With Sabre Vacations, you get access to the exact same deals and incentives that are currently available through VAX ― and more. It’s ideal for agencies that specialize in leisure travel, including to specific destinations.

Key benefits

Increases revenue with commissionable packages and mark-up tool
Improves cash flow management by tracking when payments are due
Generates two PBA credits for each traveled booking made
Keeps you competitive with preferred pricing and unique agency deals

FEATuRES

Sabre Vacations booking engine features a dynamic, point-and-click interface that gives you the flexibility to easily interchange air, car and hotel options. So you can offer the right trip to the right person at the right time. Book vacation packages quickly and easily from top vacation suppliers 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Avoid having to waste valuable time on hold with tour operators.

With Sabre Vacations, you receive the same preferred pricing, hot deals and high-commission packages that VAX VacationAccess offers and more. You also have access to promotional codes, enabling you to take advantage of consumer deals and unique agency offers.

Building your leisure business has never been easier or better. With Sabre Vacations, you benefit from the following:

Access to the same VAX VacationAccess great deals and promotions
Content from the top vacation suppliers include (but are not limited to) Adventure Tours, ATA Vacations, Funjet Vacations, Sandals and Beaches Resorts, Southwest Airlines Vacations, TransGlobal Vacations, Travel Impressions, United Vacations and US Airways Vacations and more. (English - .pdf)
Email tool makes it easy to send Hot Deals directly to your customers. Send a personalized email to your customers to help stimulate sales.
Charter destination search tool offers a quick, easy way to find all available charter destinations in one search
Vendor Center where you can go to one place and find out everything you need to know about the vendors you’re booking
Reservation-management tools, such as retrieval of existing reservations and itineraries, and email vacation itinerary notifications and the ability to clone an existing reservation
The ability to shop across all tour operators by using the “Vacation Shopper” feature and save up to 10 itineraries, popular deals with the “Suitcase” feature
Automatic creation of a Sabre® system PNR with itinerary details all interfacing with your back-office accounting system
Earn Sabre productivity credits for every traveled booking
Sort by your client’s preferred outbound and return flight times
Easy registration process—once you’ve registered for Sabre Vacations on Agency eServices or on https://my.sabre.com, you can begin booking vacations through the booking engine in as little as two days
The ability to mark-up your own commission with service fees before quoting the price (not applicable to all tour operators)
Customized search and result pages, enabling you to set vendor preferences
Intuitive, graphical displays containing complete vacation package details, including hotel, destination and vacation-features information

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Sabre Vacations makes it easy to shop and book commissionable vacation packages from top tour operators.

ACCESS

Sabre Vacations is available for Sabre Connected^SM agencies and can be accessed by logging into the Agency eServices site from the Sabre® Vacations and Tours Community page, or from https://my.sabre.com. Once registered, you can begin booking vacations in as little as two business days.

WHERE AVAILABLE

Sabre Vacations is available in the United States and Canada.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

Hardware Requirements

Cable or DSL connectivity

Network Requirements

IP Connectivity using sec VPN as a portal solution over the Internet

Databases Supported

Sun
Tandem

PRICING

Sabre Vacations is free of charge to Sabre Connected agencies; however, you must register for the product in order to have full functionality.

LEARN MORE

Power Behind You Flyer (English -.pdf)
Product Information (English - Canada)

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions about Sabre Vacations (English - .pdf)

TRAINING AND SUPPORT

Users of Sabre Vacations should have basic computer skills and familiarity with GUI applications. Sabre Vacations offers online help and training within the application. Agents can take a Sabre Vacations training class and earn 1.5 continuing education units. Additional training materials are available via the Agency eServices site. Our help desk is available 24/7 to help serve your needs. Information to contact the help desk is located under the support header on the Sabre Vacations Web site.