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News
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Jurni Network Announces Additions to
Preferred Suppliers List / PRNewswire-FirstCall
SOUTHLAKE, Texas - (April 5, 2004) 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 - News) 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.
About Passport Online
Passport Online connects travel
industry suppliers and retailers to a broad range of travel buyers.
VacationPORT is a sophisticated marketing system to actively promote
and influence the flow of travel offers throughout the sales cycle
in a highly customizable manner. VacationPORT has been selected
by top U.S. travel companies as a comprehensive web marketing program
to build leisure travel sales, as well as many of the top cruise,
tour, and hotel companies in the world to distribute and market
their latest product and pricing information. For more information
about Passport Online, see the web site at www.passportonlineinc.com.
For More Information, Contact:
Passport Online, Inc.
Greg Kott, President/CEO, 503-626-7766 ext. 3020
email: gregk@passportonlineinc.com
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