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SOURCE: The SABRE Group
Netscape and The SABRE Group Launch Innovative Travel Booking Service on Netscape Netcenter
Travelocity Featured as Exclusive Travel Partner for Netcenter's Marketplace
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and FORT WORTH, Texas, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Netscape Communications Corporation (Nasdaq: NSCP - news) and The SABRE Group (NYSE: TSG - news) announced today the launch of Netcenter Travel by Travelocity, a co-branded service accessible through the Netscape Netcenter ( home.netscape.com ) free online service.
Netscape Netcenter, launched in September, has now reached the 2.6 million member milestone. Netcenter enables users to access and personalize online resources easily from one central location. Netcenter is organized into four major categories: Content, Community, Software and Commerce.
Netcenter Travel by Travelocity can be accessed from both the Commerce area of Netscape Netcenter as well as within Netcenter's new Marketplace. Netcenter Marketplace provides users with the opportunity to purchase items such as computers, office supplies, gifts, travel, books, music, software and discount products. The new Travelocity service provides the ability to make air, car and hotel reservations, buy vacation and cruise packages online, as well as research popular travel destination locations.
''As the exclusive travel service for Netcenter, Travelocity provides business and leisure travelers a variety of travel planning tools,'' said Terry Jones, chief information officer of The SABRE Group. ''In addition, consumers now have access to the SABRE system, the same system which provides travel information to more than 33,000 travel agencies worldwide.''
''This agreement combines The SABRE Group's leadership in electronic travel with Netscape's world-leading Internet site and growing online service,'' said Jennifer Bailey, vice president of Netscape's Web site. ''Saving time is an important issue for our customers who want easy access to travel bookings. We are furthering our goal to make Netcenter the business hub for Internet users to access the online services they need.''
Travelocity ( travelocity.com ), owned and operated by The SABRE Group, provides schedules for more than 700 airlines and reservations capability for more than 420 airlines, 37,000 hotels and more than 50 car rental companies, the most on the Web. Since its launch in March 1996, Travelocity has registered more than 1.6 million members and logs more than 25 million page views per month.
The SABRE Group is a world leader in the electronic distribution of travel and travel-related services around the globe, and is a leading provider of information technology solutions for the travel and transportation industry, including customized software development and software product sales, transaction processing, consulting and total information technology outsourcing.
Netscape Communications Corporation is a leading provider of open software for linking people and information over enterprise networks and the Internet. The company offers a full line of clients, servers, development tools, and commercial applications to create a complete platform for next generation, live online applications. Traded on Nasdaq under the symbol ''NSCP,'' Netscape Communications Corporation is based in Mountain View, California. |
