Sabre named world’s best Global Distribution System for ninth consecutive year
Sabre was chosen as the world’s leading Global Distribution System (GDS) in the 2002 World Travel Awards, held last month in St Lucia. More than half a million travel agents worldwide voted in the awards, nominating Sabre for its “effective technology, extensive viable fares and continued innovation”. This is the ninth consecutive year that the GDS has been awarded this title.
“It is a tremendous honour for us to be recognised in this way,” said Eric Speck, chief marketing officer for Sabre. “It demonstrates that Sabre doesn’t just have more customers – we have more satisfied customers.”
The World Travel Awards were started in 1993 to acknowledge and celebrate excellence in the world’s travel and tourism industry. Now in its ninth year, travel professionals have come to regard the World Travel Awards as the best endorsement that any travel product could hope to receive. This year, more than 500,000 travel agents from 80,000 travel agencies around the globe participated in the online voting.
The Sabre GDS is the leading travel distribution system connecting suppliers, agents and travellers. In the past 12 months it has distributed more than US$45 billion worth of travel on behalf of airlines around the world.
About Sabre Holdings Corporation
Sabre Holdings, an S&P 500 company, is the leading provider of technology, distribution and marketing services for the travel industry. Headquartered in Southlake, Texas, in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, the company has approximately 7,000 employees in 45 countries. Sabre reported 2001 revenues of $2.1 billion. Sabre owns Travelocity.com, the most popular travel site on the Web, and GetThere, the world’s leading provider of Web-based travel reservation systems for corporations and travel suppliers. Sabre is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: TSG). More information about Sabre is available at http://www.sabre.com/.
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