SABRE Holdings has entered into a new hotel agreement with TravelSky, a China-based air travel and tourism IT solutions provider.
“Our agreement gives our hotel partners a unique and extremely valuable channel to tap into the burgeoning Chinese marketplace, and provides our agency customers with significantly more choice and efficient access to Chinese hotel properties. TravelSky is a key player in China, and our alliance is an important step towards meeting the needs of travellers from the East and West,” said Hans Belle, vice president and general manager, Asia-Pacific, Sabre Travel Network.
The partnership will enable Sabre’s 350,000 global agents access to TravelSky’s 30,000 Chinese hotel properties, while TravelSky will provide its 7,000 agencies in China with access to more than 100,000 hotel properties on Sabre’s GDS.
Hotels who use Sabre’s SynXis Central Reservations System will be able to work directly with TravelSky travel agencies and leisure travellers in China.
“This is an important alliance for us as this hotel content was previously not available to our travel agencies or travellers in China,” said Xue Qiang, vice-president tour and transportation solutions, TravelSky Technology. “This agreement gives our agencies and travellers efficient access to an extensive range of Western properties, and helps both our companies meet our mutual objectives to deliver greater value to customers.”
A similar deal was also struck between Sabre’s Asia-Pacific subsidiary Abacus, and TravelSky to share hotel content with its agencies.
