DMCs & PCOs

Sabre Commission Manager unveiled
30/11/2006
Sabre Travel Network is launching a product aimed at helping hotels and travel agencies manage hotel booking commissions more effectively.
The new Web-based product is called Sabre Worldwide Commission Manager and was developed in conjunction with Seville-based Worldwide Payment Systems (WPS). It will be introduced at next week's HEDNA Conference in Florida and implemented with Sabre's hotel customers during December.
Sabre Worldwide Commission Manager will be available to hotel operators around the world and will give them a new ability to track commission payments to travel agencies on a global scale, while enabling agencies to track, manage and “ where necessary“ claim commissions easily and efficiently.
The lack of an industry-wide standard has so far prevented technology providers from developing products to do this effectively. By teaming with Sabre Travel Network to develop this product and make it available to more than 76,000 hotels and the huge worldwide network of travel agencies that use the Sabre GDS (global distribution system), WPS believes it will generate the impetus and scale to make this product the global commission management solution of choice.
"Between Sabre Travel Network, Travelocity, lastminute.com, Site59.com, the Jurni Network, Nexion and SynXis, Sabre Holdings has one of the largest hotel inventories of any company anywhere," said Pedro Fern??ndez-Salvador, chief executive officer. "Sabre Worldwide Commission Manager will contribute by enhancing this hotel offering still further".
Sabre Worldwide Commission Manager is the latest in a series of tools and services (some outlined in detail below) from Sabre Travel Network designed to help hotel operators increase sales, encourage travel agencies to book accommodation through the Sabre GDS, create operational efficiencies for suppliers and agencies, and give travel agents the most comprehensive collection of bookable leisure and business travel products. The company intends to unveil early next year other products to make it even easier for travel agencies to book hotel accommodation through Sabre.