New online community for travel agents

Sep 14, 2009

Sabre Travel Network has launched its free AgentStream online community, offering travel agents a platform to virtually connect with peers, collaborate on travel itineraries and products, and share business ideas.

Published: 14 Sep 2009

Sabre Travel Network has launched its free AgentStream online community, offering travel agents a platform to virtually connect with peers, collaborate on travel itineraries and products, and share business ideas.

Over the course of AgentStream’s pilot phase, nearly 2,000 agents created profiles on the site.

In addition to its launch in North America, Sabre is also looking at expanding AgentStream into Europe and Latin America in 2010.

AgentStream is built on Sabre’s cubeless technology, a community platform for businesses that supports multiple Sabre-driven employee and client groups.

Greg Webb, chief marketing officer for Sabre Holdings, said, “In particular, we hear from our small business customers that they are looking for more effective ways to collaborate with others to share knowledge and best practices. Through the use of this platform, travel professionals from any size business have a new world of resources at their fingertips.”

Features include the ability for agents to:

      • Quickly access the knowledge of thousand of agents via a Q & A section;
      • Blog on their personal page to share industry insights;
      • Search capabilities by agent and/or areas of expertise;
      • Identify current hot topics in the community through a word tag cloud.
      • Quickly access the knowledge of thousand of agents via a Q & A section;
      • Blog on their personal page to share industry insights;
      • Search capabilities by agent and/or areas of expertise;
      • Identify current hot topics in the community through a word tag cloud.
      • Quickly access the knowledge of thousand of agents via a Q & A section;
      • Blog on their personal page to share industry insights;
      • Search capabilities by agent and/or areas of expertise;
      • Identify current hot topics in the community through a word tag cloud.
      • Quickly access the knowledge of thousand of agents via a Q & A section;
      • Blog on their personal page to share industry insights;
      • Search capabilities by agent and/or areas of expertise;
      • Identify current hot topics in the community through a word tag cloud.