Over 50,000 travel agencies doing business in some 100 countries use Sabre, which has approximately a 45 percent market share. As a result, all agents working for those agencies are required to use this system and must become intimately familiar with it. Thanks to its automation, ease and efficiency, the system allows travel agents immediate access to information essential to their jobs.
Employees who work on the software and systems of Travelocity, Priceline, Lastminute.com and other websites that use Sabre must work with it in order to maximize the efficacy and ease prized by these websites. As Sabre frequently releases new applications and updates, these travel professionals must remain fully conversant and up-to-date with this system.
Travel agents who work for themselves must use Sabre in order to have centralized access to schedules of all of the world's airlines and to directly book reservations with nearly 400 of them. The system also accesses some 90,000 hotels, several dozen car-rental agencies and nearly 200 tour operators, as well as rail, cruise and limousine providers.
