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Global Distribution
The Sabre Global Distribution System
The Sabre® global distribution system is the world's largest electronic travel reservation system. The Sabre system is a primary component for travel and transportation information for over 50,000 travel agencies, major travel suppliers, Fortune 500 companies and travel web sites around the globe. The Sabre system provides users with schedules, availability, pricing, policies and rules, as well as reservation and ticketing capability for travel suppliers including:
- Airlines
- Car Rental Companies
- Ferry Companies
- Hotel Properties
- Rail Operations
- Tour Operators
- Event Tickets
- Cellular Phone Rentals
- Sightseeing
- Travel Insurance
- Theme Parks
- Independent Resorts
- Condos
- Campgrounds
- Charter operations
- Golf Course Tee Times
Sabre Tours
Sabre® Tours is a suite of services that make selling tours and vacations profitable and easy. This powerful suite of products enables travel consultants and tour operators to meet their client's needs for convenient, worry-free travel. Sabre Tours provides instant access to tour operators' systems for true availability, rate information and confirmation numbers' providing travel consultants with the tools they need to close the sale.
With Sabre Tours, simply choose from a menu of tour operators without using unique operator codes. Users experience new levels of convenience and efficiency when booking tours by browsing displays that access current information from tour operators. Travel consultants get two PBA booking credits for every tour booking that is traveled. Plus most tour operators offer promotions and incentives for booking electronically.
Sabre Tours helps travel agencies reach high levels of profitability and customer service. The self-explanatory fill-in-the-blank screens allow both novice experienced consultants to make bookings quickly easily – all at no additional cost. Simply type [X] [X]TOR experience benefits Sabre Tours.
- Eliminate 800-number calls
- Instant access to leading tour operators' products
- Send electronic messages to tour operators
- Order brochures electronically
- Real-time inventory and pricing directly from each tour operator's system
- Book tours 24 hours a day, 7 days a week - meet client needs immediately
- Supports a variety of market segments such as FIT, escorted, and multi-destination.
- Display tour and hotel descriptions to advise clients
- Sell air, car, hotel and tours to clients in one visit
- Allows travel consultant to post payment
Sabre TourPath advanced tour system interface
Sabre® TourPath™ is an automated interface that enables tour operators to perform compiles operations across multiple computer reservation system networks using a single system. This advanced reservations system feature delivers a single connection to multiple computer reservation systems with access to land and air reservation information.
Sabre TourWise rules-based customized interface
Sabre® TourWise™ is a customized connectivity interface and decision-support tool that enables tour operators to electronically communicate with the various computer reservation system through their host system. It streamlines the processing between travel agencies, tour operators, and computer reservation system using established booking, pricing and invoicing business rules customized for each system.
Sabre Qik-Tours automated air booking interface
Sabre® Qik-Tours™ is an automated air booking interface between the cruise/tour system and any computer reservation system that enables agents to focus on handling individual customer requests, promoting sales and delivering outstanding customer service. Qik-Tours is part of the Qik-Access family designed to automate air travel booking for cruise lines and tour operators.
Sabre TourLink
Sabre® TourLink™ is a multi access product that provides travel consultants with a connection directly into a tour operators database using masks developed by the tour operator.
Sabre Consolidators
Sabre® Consolidators™ is a multi-access based application that enables travel consultants to view and book discounted products electronically via the Sabre system. The system allows Sabre subscribers to work directly in a consolidator's computer system on a real-time basis to search for information, and most importantly, book travel.
