SOUTHLAKE, Texas, April 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Jurni Network, the
unique offline leisure travel agency consortium and Sabre Travel Network
brand, today announced key additions to its list of preferred suppliers from
the cruise, tour and ancillary services segments. Twenty-one new suppliers
have agreed to provide travel products and services in specific markets to
Jurni Network agency members, bringing the supplier total to 54.
The additional preferred suppliers include:
- Cruise: Princess Cruises, SeaDream Yacht Club
- Tour Operators: Air Jamaica Vacations, ATS Tours, Gutsy Women in
Travel, Islands in the Sun, Maupintour, Princess Tours, Sunstyle
Holidays, Tauck World Discovery, Tours F1,Travel Connection - Ancillary Services: ClientBase Plus, Cruise Albums, eZforex currency
exchange, Northstar Media, Passport Online, Port Promotions, TRAMS,
Well Wishers, Willow Press
Travel offers from these additional suppliers will complement and enhance
special content offered by the inaugural list of preferred suppliers in the
cruise, car rental, tour operator and hotel segments.
“We have purposefully focused on a limited group of preferred suppliers
for Jurni Network,” said Chris Kroeger, general manager of Jurni Network.
“Over time, the highly targeted marketing capabilities of Jurni Network will
enable our suppliers to offer specialized travel products that will not be
offered through any other channel. A few additional preferred suppliers will
be added in the future based on strategic needs to complete the Jurni Network
supplier and travel product portfolio.”
Complete List of Jurni Network Preferred Suppliers:
- Cruise: (9) Celebrity Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises,
Orient Lines, Princess Cruises, Royal Caribbean, SeaDream Yacht Club,
The Delta Queen Steamboat Company, Viking River Cruises - Car: (3) Auto Europe, Avis, Budget
- Tour Operators: (32) Adventure Tours, AeroMexico Vacations, Air
Jamaica Vacations, ATA Vacations, ATS Tours, Blue Sky Tours, Club Med,
Cosmos, Creative Leisure International, Funjet Vacations, Globus,
Gutsy Women in Travel, Islands in the Sun, Las Vegas and More,
Maupintour, Midwest Airlines Vacations, MGM MIRAGE Vacations, Mountain
Vacations, Pleasant Holidays, Princess Tours, Showtime Tours,
Southwest Airlines Vacations, Sports Empire, Sunstyle Holidays, Tauck
World Discovery, Tours F1, TransGlobal Vacations, Travel Charter,
Travel Connection, Travel Impressions, United Vacations, US Airways
Vacations - Hotel: Sabre Exclusives hotels representing over 2,000 properties,
including 101 brands in 220 cities - Ancillary Services: (9) ClientBase Plus, Cruise Albums, eZforex
Currency Exchange, Northstar Media, Passport Online, Port Promotions,
TRAMS, Well Wishers, Willow Press
About Jurni Network
Jurni Network is a leisure travel agency consortium and Sabre Travel
Network brand that enables offline agencies to sell more products from
preferred travel suppliers by using sophisticated market intelligence. This
highly targeted distribution channel creates an entirely new value proposition
for suppliers and optimizes earnings for both suppliers and agencies.
Additional information about Jurni Network is available at www.jurni.com.
About Sabre Travel Network
Sabre Travel Network, a Sabre Holdings company, provides access to the
world’s leading global distribution system (GDS) enabling agents at more than
53,000 agency locations worldwide to be travel experts. The Sabre GDS, the
first system to connect the buyers and sellers of travel, today includes more
than 400 airlines, approximately 60,000 hotels, 41 car rental companies, nine
cruise lines, 35 railroads and 220 tour operators. Key brands of Sabre Travel
Network include GetThere, the leading Web-based corporate travel reservation
technology, and Jurni Network, the unique leisure travel agency consortium
that enables members to sell more products from preferred travel suppliers
using sophisticated market intelligence.
Sabre Holdings Corporation (NYSE: TSG) is a world leader in travel
commerce, retailing travel products and providing distribution and technology
solutions for the travel industry. More information about Sabre Holdings is
available at http://www.sabre-holdings.com.
Statements in this news release which are not purely historical facts,
including statements about anticipated specialized product offerings or other
statements about anticipations, beliefs, expectations, hopes, intentions, or
strategies for the future, may be forward-looking statements within the
meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking
statements. All forward-looking statements are based upon information
available to the Sabre Holdings Corporation on the date this press release was
released. Sabre Holdings Corporation undertakes no obligation to publicly
update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise. Any forward-looking statements
involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events or results to
differ materially from the events or results described in the forward-looking
statements, including risks or uncertainties related to Jurni Network’s
ability to add additional preferred suppliers or Sabre Holdings Corporation’s
revenues being highly dependent on the travel and transportation industries.
Sabre Holdings Corporation may not succeed in addressing these and other
risks. Further information regarding factors that could affect our financial
and other results can be found in the risk factors section of the Sabre
Holdings Corporation’s most recent filing on Form 10-K with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.
SOURCE Sabre Holdings
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/CONTACT: Nanci Williams of Sabre Holdings, +1-682-605-2271, or
nanci.williams@sabre-holdings.com /
/Web site: http://www.sabre-holdings.com
http://www.jurni.com /
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