Sabre's Tom Klein Selected for Prestigious Industry Leadership Award.Klein Recognized by Business Travel News for Efforts to Preserve Efficiency and Bring Balance to Travel Distribution SOUTHLAKE, Texas Southlake is a city located primarily in the northeastern part of Tarrant County, Texas. A small northernly region of the city is in Denton County, Texas. The population was 21,519 at the 2000 census. -- Sabre Travel Network Sabre Travel Network (STN) is the line of technology developed by Sabre Inc. that services travel agencies directly. Sabre Travel Network began when the Sabre Computer reservations system was installed in Briarcliff Manor, New York in 1960. , the world's largest and most rewarding marketplace for buying and selling travel, today announced that executive Tom Klein was named as a recipient of the travel industry's prestigious 25 Most Influential Executives of 2006 as awarded by Business Travel News (BTN BTN In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Bhutan Ngultrum. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ). Klein, 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. executive vice president and group president of the Sabre Travel Network and Sabre Airline Solutions Sabre Airline Solutions is a subsidiary of Sabre Holdings. The main product of Sabre Airline Solutions is the SabreSonic system. This provides departure control, reservations, and, inventory management. businesses, was selected because of his leadership role in helping Sabre proactively maintain its position as champion of the most efficient travel marketplace possible. "BTN was keen to name Tom Klein to our list of the 25 most influential executives of 2006 for reshaping the terms by which corporate travel content is bought and sold through his efforts in leading the renegotiation of carrier contracts with global distribution systems," said BTN editor-in-chief David Meyer. Business Travel News has delivered timely and ground-breaking news to the corporate travel industry for more than 20 years. Under Klein's direction, Sabre took aggressive measures to preserve efficiency, find a balanced approach to industry fragmentation and rising costs, and continue to provide agents with greater revenue opportunities. "Tom has shown strong leadership during a challenging period in the travel industry," said Sam Gilliland, chairman and chief executive officer, Sabre Holdings. "Tom and his team worked tirelessly to ensure continued efficiency in travel distribution and helped create a balanced solution to meet the needs of all in the travel industry." In June 2006, Sabre Travel Network launched the Efficient Access Solution (EAS (Electronic Article Surveillance) A security system for preventing theft in retail stores that uses disposable label tags or reusable hard tags attached to the merchandise. ), an optional program that guarantees travel agents access to full content from participating carriers without service fees via the Sabre Global Distribution System (GDS GDS Global Distribution System GDS Google Desktop Search (Google) GDS Goodie Domain Service (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) GDS Guards ). The program was met with over a 99 percent rate of agency adoption, and all major U.S. carriers have agreed to participate in the program. Following the successful adoption of EAS, Sabre Travel Network delivered on its promise to give agents more revenue opportunities. Beginning with the August 2006 launch of the leisure marketplace and continuing through upcoming improvements and innovations to the corporate travel sphere, Sabre is developing comprehensive solutions that address current and future marketplace needs for the corporate and leisure space, setting the stage for another year of industry leadership. Klein has held his current leadership role with Sabre Airline Solutions and Sabre Travel Network since 2004. Prior to this position, Klein has held various leadership positions with Sabre. Previous to coming to Sabre, Klein held several marketing and operations positions within the travel industry. About Sabre Travel Network Sabre Travel Network, a Sabre Holdings company, provides the most comprehensive end-to-end solutions (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. for corporate and leisure travel. The Sabre GDS is the foundation for these solutions, providing a ready-built efficient marketplace that connects travel suppliers, including hundreds of airlines and thousands of hotels, with more than 50,000 travel agency locations. Key brands of Sabre Travel Network include GetThere, for corporate travel reservation technology; Jurni Network Jurni Network is a travel consortium developed by Sabre Travel Network that specializes in improving the way travel agencies market to customers. Jurni was spun-off in 2003 from Sabre's then newly acquired Nexion Inc. External links
Sabre Holdings (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :TSG TSG The Smoking Gun (web site) TSG Technology Services Group (UK) TSG Technical Specification Group TSG Timing Signal Generator TSG Technical Support Group TSG Tumor Suppressor Gene TSG ThermoSalinoGraph ) connects people with the world's greatest travel possibilities by retailing travel products and providing distribution and technology solutions for the travel industry. More information about Sabre Holdings is available at http://www.sabre-holdings.com. |
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