Sabre redefines business travel
The Traveler Experience Platform integrates a suite of travel technology products in a consumer-grade mobile experience delivering self-service in-transit travel bookings, itinerary management, payments, expense integration, and safety capabilities to the
While the majority of business travellers want to manage their trips using technology, today they must rely on several different mobile apps to navigate the whole journey. According to a recent survey, The Digital Business Traveler, published by Sabre Corporation and the GBTA Foundation, 77 percent of business travellers in some of the largest corporations around the world prefer using self-service technology to manage their travel but on average they use nine different apps to manage their business travel with the most popular apps being airline, hotel, booking, car and restaurant apps. The survey results also show the proliferation of corporate travel tools and apps creates challenges both for the traveller and the travel program.
To address this disconnect, Sabre has unveiled its new Traveler Experience Platform at its annual Connect corporate travel conference in Dallas. The Traveler Experience Platform brings together the critical aspects of travel management into a single mobile app that will manage the whole trip for business travellers. The platform combines online booking capabilities of Get There for air and hotel, the itinerary management and messaging features of TripCase and the e-payment solutions of Sabre Virtual Payments.
“Travel is a strategic investment for corporations that can bring significant returns which is why we built a platform that provides scalable innovation to drive two key objectives: experience and efficiency. In the past you had to give up one to have the other. With this scalable platform, you basically have it all,” said Florian
Tinnus, Vice President, Traveler Experience at Sabre. “With personalisation becoming an expectation for travellers, and mobile as an enabler of a true personalised experience, the future of travel is in the collaboration and execution of the traveller’s experience with a corporation’s travel program.”
In all, the Traveler Experience Platform helps solve some of the biggest challenges facing business travel programs: corporate travel managers searching for a flexible platform, travellers looking for a seamless experience and corporations striving for a positive return on investment. Available to travellers through their employer’s travel program, the platform seamlessly integrates multiple products and solutions, providing corporations a single mobile application for their travellers and freedom-of-choice in expense integration. Within the platform, corporate policies are automatically adhered to when business travellers book or rebook trips, expenses are automatically captured and stored and a detailed expense report is auto-filed when the trip is complete, all from the traveller’s mobile device.