Travelocity Business First Online Agency to Offer Global Options For Multinational Companies

  Announces New Online Tools, Services and Special International Hotel Deals

SOUTHLAKE, Texas, Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ — Helping multinational companies
lower travel costs and expand traveler choices worldwide, Travelocity
Business(SM), a full service corporate travel agency, is the first online
agency to introduce a full set of global options for its customers. These
options include the ability for U.S.-based companies to easily create online
booking sites and 24×7 services customized for international offices and
travelers with local languages, currency, policies, and preferred suppliers.
Travelocity Business has also secured special business rates at thousands of
international hotel properties.

The global capabilities are an element of Travelocity Business’ expansion
to provide its full service corporate travel solution to large companies, in
addition to small and medium-sized businesses.

“Most large and medium-sized companies have offices outside the United
States,” said Ellen Keszler, president of Travelocity Business. “In the past,
companies have often had completely different travel solutions for each of
those regions. Travelocity Business is allowing companies to create a truly
global travel program that helps companies create the greatest efficiencies by
providing the broadest set of options to travelers worldwide in one online
program, but with localized service as needed.”

Travelocity Business is the only online agency providing a unique super
site capability. It allows companies to maintain a primary U.S. travel site
that can then be easily replicated to create online booking sites for each
regional office, with that region’s language, currency, policies, and local
preferred suppliers. Travelocity Business is also implementing localized
services to provide international offices, phone services, and ticketing as
necessary.

In addition, Travelocity Business has secured special rates at thousands
of hotel properties in major destinations around the globe, ranging from
economy to deluxe accommodations. These blanket discount rates are in
addition to special discounts Travelocity Business is negotiating on behalf of
companies, complementing the negotiated rates companies may secure on their
own.

About Travelocity Business

For small businesses to large multinational corporations, Travelocity
Business(SM) is a full-service corporate travel agency that helps companies
easily manage travel and reduce costs, while providing more choices to
travelers. Travelocity Business combines the savings and convenience of
online with the full service of dedicated agents available 24/7 who typically
answer the phone in 20 seconds, and within 60 seconds guaranteed. Companies
can cut travel costs through flight deals, Web fares, hotel discounts and
service fee savings — representing an average savings of more than $100 per
trip or 20 percent overall per trip, including airfare savings averaging
26 percent per ticket and service fee savings of up to 84 percent.

Travelocity Business merges the expertise, service and travel choices of
Travelocity with the most proven online corporate travel technology, already
used by more than half of the Fortune 200. For more information, companies
can visit www.travelocitybusiness.com .

About Travelocity

Travelocity(R), a Sabre Holdings(TM) company, pioneered the online travel
space and continues to be the most popular travel service on the Web, giving
consumers access to hundreds of airlines, thousands of hotels and cruise,
last-minute and vacations packages, and best-in-class car rental companies,
all backed by 1,000 customer service representatives staffed to provide
24-hour assistance. With 41 million members, Travelocity is the sixth largest
travel agency in the United States. It has been recognized worldwide for its
leadership in the online travel space, and it operates or powers Web sites in
five languages across four continents. Additional information about
Travelocity can be found on the Web at www.travelocity.com .

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 www.sabre-holdings.com .

     Contact:
     Judy Haveson (judy@vollmerpr.com )
     212/554-7425
     Mary Kate Smither (marykate@vollmerpr.com )
     972/488-4790
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