Book4golf.Com and Sabre Inc. Enter Into Strategic Relationship.Business Editors MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2000 (CDNX CDNX See Canadian Venture Exchange (CDNX). :BFG BfG Bundesanstalt für Gewaesserkunde (Germany: Federal Institute of Hydrology) BFG Big Friendly Giant (Roald Dahl book) BFG Battlefleet Gothic (game) BFG Briefing ) Book4golf.com(SM) and Sabre Holdings Sabre Holdings or Sabre, Inc. is an American travel technology company, encompassing several brands in three global travel distribution channels: travel agency, airline, and direct to consumer. These areas are serviced by TSG's three main business groups. Corporation, the global leader in information technology services for the travel and transportation industry, have reached a definitive agreement for a strategic relationship between the two companies. Book4golf.com will serve as the exclusive provider of online, real-time, tee-time reservations for North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. golf courses for Sabre connected travel agents. Additionally, Sabre was granted the option to participate in a partial ownership position in Book4golf.com. Sabre-connected travel agents around the world will now have the ability to access golf tee-time reservations online. Initially, travel consultants will have access to Book4golf.com's tee-time reservations through Sabre AgentExplorer, an exclusive, password-protected web site for Sabre-connected travel agents that provides pre-screened, web-based travel content that is conveniently categorized cat·e·go·rize tr.v. cat·e·go·rized, cat·e·go·riz·ing, cat·e·go·riz·es To put into a category or categories; classify. cat . The site also provides travel agents with access to valuable destination information, including maps and driving directions; weather updates; travel supplier information, including pictures of hotel properties, rental car companies and cruise lines
Name Headquarters A'rosa Europe NCL America America AIDA Cruises Europe American Cruise Lines America ; shipment and tracking tools that verify and track ticket shipments; an international protocol database and cultural data; and discounts. "Book4golf.com, through this relationship with the world's largest travel reservations network, can now electronically link the available tee times of our more than 800 member courses into travel agencies worldwide," said Phillip DeLeon, president and co-chairman, Book4golf.com. "Golfing travelers can now book and confirm all of their tee-time reservations well in advance of a trip and access that information from their printed itinerary. We think the availability of obtaining golf tee times and corresponding confirmation numbers on a traveler's trip itinerary will be a very exciting value-added offering for the travel industry and the traveling golfer." "Through this relationship, our customers will have the ability to access and book reservations for thousands of golf courses across the country," said Scot Alvis, senior vice president associate marketing and sales for Sabre. "Our travel agents have grown to expect us (Sabre) to provide them with the most innovative and creative forms of accessing travel information. This relationship is just one of the many ways Sabre confirms its commitment to Sabre connected travel agents." Sabre is the global leader in applying information technology to meet the needs of the travel and transportation industries with advanced and innovative technology to deliver progressive solutions. Headquartered in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, the company has more than 10,000 employees worldwide who span 45 countries. Sabre reported 1999 revenues of $2.4 billion and net earnings were $264 million. Notable clients of Sabre include American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the , US Airways and America West Airlines America West Airlines was one of the United States' ten major airlines. The airline was based in Tempe, Arizona, and is now a part of US Airways Group. At the time of its integration into US Airways, the airline maintained two hubs, one at Phoenix Sky Harbor International . Sabre offers travel services to more than 47,000 Sabre Connected travel agencies including more than 440 airlines, 45,000 hotel properties, 50 car rental companies, plus hundreds of other travel and e-commerce service providers An organization that provides any combination of consulting, software and computer systems for e-commerce Web sites. . More information on Sabre is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.sabre.com. |
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