UNIWORLD Boutique River
Cruises is working on the launch
of a booking facility within the
Sabre GDS for Australian travel
agents, with plans under way
to expand the company’s new
agreement with Sabre in North
America (CW 22 Sep).
Uniworld md Australia, Fiona
Dalton, told Cruise Weekly this
morning there is an “opportunity
to regionalise the system for
Australia,” which would mean
travel agents could book
Uniworld river cruises via the
Sabre GDS in Australian dollars.
The initiative would give travel
agents live access to Uniworld
inventory through Sabre Cruises,
which is part of the Sabre Red
platform and offers the ability to
shop and book the line’s voyages
in Europe, Asia, Egypt and India
via a “graphics-rich reservation
workflow”.
“We are looking at phase 2
of the solution, which would
allow agents to book locally in
Australian dollars,” Dalton said,
with hopes the enhanced system
could roll out in Australia at some
stage during 2017.
