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Stella Travel Services New Zealand and Sabre Pacific have today announced that they have renewed their current GDS Agreement for a further four year period.

Stella Travel Services New Zealand CEO, Greig Leighton said the Agreement, as part of an overall Trans Tasman Agreement between a number of the Stella brands in Australia and New Zealand, and Sabre, is a first for Stella’s Australasian business under its current structure, and is a excellent example of collective procurement being able to deliver significantly better commercial terms and product benefits to our franchise members, our affiliate customers, and our owned brands here in New Zealand. 

“ This new agreement ensures that our franchisee members, Harvey World Travel and United Travel, and our affiliate customers under the IRN network, will benefit from ongoing technology developments, especially in regards to the Sabre Agency Manager ( SAM ) Product, which will help those franchisees wishing to move to a product aligned to their front office point of sale system “ he said.

“ In addition, the inclusion of an accounting interface will significantly enhance our franchisees mid and back office capability, plus the addition of NetCheck, e ticket storage, and an online booking tool, have all combined to deliver an excellent suite of products across our networks “ he added.

Collectively, Stella has been a Sabre customer in New Zealand for the past five and half years.

Sabre Pacific NZ General Manager, Todd Bolton commented “ Sabre Pacific is excited about the opportunity to promote and implement Sabre end-to- end product solutions and encapsulate a one-stop-shop approach to benefit Stella’s retailers with greater productivity, efficiencies and technology development. In addition we will work hard within our partnership to maximise conversion opportunity to a common Sabre platform.”

“The new agreement will be recognised from the 1st of January 2010. Stella’s franchise networks and affiliate customers will benefit from this new agreement with immediate effect.

Included under the Trans Tasman Agreement are United Travel, Harvey World Travel, and Atlantic and Pacific American Express in New Zealand. Go Holidays, and The Travel Brokers retain their current relationship with Amadeus.

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