Sabre has introduced the Traveler Experience Platform, a suite of its existing business travel products that now combined, provides a “consumer-grade mobile experience”.
The platform combines the online booking capabilities of GetThere for air and hotel, and the itinerary management and messaging features of TripCase. Sabre has also introduced a travel risk management solution to the platform, SafePoint, which helps travellers to check-in with their employer via a GPS location and request assistance if an emergency arises.
Early next year, the Traveler Experience Platform will also offer e-payment solutions via Sabre Virtual Payments to corporations in Asia-Pacific.
Available to travellers through their employer’s travel programme, the platform provides corporations a single mobile application for their travellers and greater flexibility in expense integration.
The solution also ensures corporate policies are automatically adhered to when business travellers book or rebook trips, and expenses are automatically captured and stored with a detailed expense report automatically generated when the trip is complete.
According to The Digital Business Traveler survey published by Sabre Corporation and the GBTA Foundation, 77 per cent of business travellers in some of the largest corporations around the world prefer using self-service technology to manage their travel – but on average use nine different apps to manage their business travel with the most popular apps being airline, hotel, booking, car and restaurant apps.
