Sabre has launched a mobile app for travel agents on the go who need to book travel and serve customers.
The Sabre Red Mobile Workspace provides access to the most commonly
used agent functions including air, car, and hotel shopping and booking,
customer profiles, PNR servicing, seat maps, ticketing capabilities and
more.
The Red Mobile Workspace is a purpose-built app specifically designed
to take advantage of the unique capabilities offered by tablets,
including touch and swipe gestures.
The app incorporates a custom Sabre keyboard, providing easy access to alpha, numeric and symbol characters from one screen.
In addition, an embedded browser gives agents in-app access to popular Sabre resources such as Agency eServices and AgentStream.
“Technology is evolving, and so is the way travel agents want to
work,” said Chris Kroeger, senior vice president of Sabre Travel
Network.
“Travel agents increasingly face the need to serve their customers
wherever and whenever. The Sabre Red Mobile Workspace gives them the
freedom to do so.”
Sabre Red Mobile Workspace was introduced at Sabre’s Travel Technology Exchange event held in May.
Since then, it has undergone extensive beta testing with customers
from all around the world. Beta test agents were highly satisfied with
the app and found a variety of creative places from which to use the
app, including their hotel pool, while floating down a river, on the
pier at Bar Harbor, from the hospital and in the middle of Great Salt
Lake.
The app operates as an extension of the Sabre Red Workspace and uses
cloud technology to share and automatically sync reservations
information, customer profiles, user preferences and shortcuts across
devices.
According to research firm IDC, tablet shipments will outpace laptop
shipments this year. A recent Sabre survey indicates that a majority of
Sabre connected travel agents want to use a tablet device to serve their
customers.
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