Sabre launches service for hotel & travel buyers

Sabre Corporation has launched a new portfolio of consortia solutions, Business Travel Services, to help hotels compete for business travellers and connect travel buyers with hotels catering to business travellers.

Sabre Business Travel Services is designed to connect hotels to new business opportunities and help them compete for and manage corporate accounts, while making it easier for travel managers to identify, negotiate and contract with hotels at the same time.

The product provides the ability to integrate negotiated rate data into both the hotel's reservation system and into the travel buyer's online and offline booking channels to maximize savings and efficiency.

The solutions portfolio builds upon Sabre's existing Sabre Hotel RFP technology and hotel consortia program to add an elite hotel consortia tier, BT Advantage, and Global Account Management:

• BT Advantage provides corporate agents with access to hundreds of pre-qualified business travel hotels in North America and the UK with plans to expand to other regions over the next 12-18 months.
• Global Account Management Services provides RFP representation to hotels, offering corporations and buyers a free connection to thousands of pre-qualified independent properties catering to business travellers.
• Hotel RFP, self-service technology, makes it easier for corporations and agencies to source hotels from the more than 175,000 GDS and non-GDS hotels worldwide.

Sabre will feature the Business Travel Services during the 2015 GBTA Convention.