New Sabre Red travel solution capabilities help leisure agencies drive customer loyalty

Check out the latest update from the Sabre Red total travel solution team below highlighting the latest and greatest enhancements to Sabre Red including new search capabilities from Sabre Cruises, Tnooz editorial content through AgentStream, and Sabre Virtually There flight-status notifications.

SOUTHLAKE, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sabre Travel Network, the world’s leading provider of high performance travel solutions, announced today new Sabre Red capabilities to help leisure travel professionals deliver great value and great service to their clients. Sabre-connected agents will benefit from new cruise content and search capabilities, timely information on travel trends and news via the AgentStream community, and enhanced mobile traveler services, including online flight check-in and flight notifications for 300 airlines.

Enhancements to help agents deliver great value include:

  • Agents will enjoy enhanced search functionality in Sabre Cruises. With the ability to select multiple regions, cruise lines, or even ships in a single search, agents can quickly and efficiently offer customers more travel options specifically suited to their needs.
  • Sabre Cruises is the first GDS cruise tool to give agents integrated access to shop, book, and manage their group space on Royal Caribbean, Azamara Club Cruises, and Celebrity Cruises. Through the Sabre Cruises window in the Sabre Red Workspace, agents can shop and compare group inventory side-by-side with all other promotions and rate codes. Sabre Cruises is the only tool that offers group bookings on all participating cruise lines.
  • New interactive deck plans, cabin details, and itinerary maps in Sabre Cruises will make it easier for agents to match the right cruise product with the right traveler – all while generating more sales and earning more revenue.

In addition to providing great value, the new capabilities in Sabre Red will also help agents deliver great service:

  • AgentStream, one of the world’s most popular travel-agent only communities, is now home to Tnooz editorial content. More than 3,100 members in the award-winning community can network and stay on top of the latest industry news with a single stop online.
  • Sabre Virtually There, used by more than 48,000 travel agents each year, brings a variety of new services that agents can make available to their customers. Now, travelers can check-in online with more than 50 airlines, track flights, flight delays and access detailed airport information, and enjoy the significantly enhanced ability to access real-time flight status notifications, now covering 300 airlines globally. Sabre Virtually There enables agents to provide travelers with important trip updates any time, all branded under the agency’s name.

“In this world of ever increasing expectations, the ability to provide great value and great service to customers is what sets a travel agency apart from its competitors – including other travel agencies and alternative travel booking options. We continue to invest significantly to ensure Sabre Red is the total travel solution to help our leisure agency customers do just that, and these new capabilities are evidence of that commitment,” said Chris Kroeger, senior vice president for marketing for Sabre Travel Network.

Sabre Travel Network will conduct demonstrations of these new capabilities at THETRADESHOW in Orlando, Sept. 12-14. Agents attending are encouraged to post video and written blogs to the ‘So You Think You Can Blog’ group in AgentStream. All community members can rate submissions to determine which blogger wins the grand prize of 10,000 Sabre Rewards Plus points.

Drive customer loyalty, power business performance.

So, let’s cut to the chase. Why did we create Sabre Red? Simply put, we want to help you drive customer loyalty and power business performance.

How specifically will Sabre Red help you achieve this? It will help you offer great value and great service to your customers, while capturing more revenue and control costs through greater efficiency for your business.

Yes, it’s really that simple.

But of course we’re so excited about Sabre Red that we would love to tell you more about it – check out the nuts and bolts of exactly how our new total travel solution works to meet your business needs at the links below.

Drive customer loyalty

Power business performance

What’s in it for you: Benefits of Sabre Red Workspace

The core of the Sabre Red travel solution is our powerful Sabre Red Workspace. It’s not just another “desktop” – it’s a customizable workspace that provides unprecedented flexibility to put everything users need right at their fingertips.

The Red Workspace is built on an open technology platform that offers superior speed, superior dependability, superior flexibility and superior ability to simplify complex operations.

So, exactly what new benefits will Red Workspace offer that will make a daily difference for customers:

  • Faster start up times
  • Greater stability
  • Higher performance worldwide
  • Superior application integration capability
  • Administrative control to manage configuration and updates down to a user level.

Over the next few weeks, we will be highlighting each benefit, component and new capability that comes with the new Sabre Red Workspace.

AND we want to know if you have any specific questions you’d like us to cover - if so, please tell us in the comments section below and we’ll cover it first!

All our red-tinted love,

~Your Sabre Red Team