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GE offering European travelers direct booking access. (Special Report: Travel Management Technology).

Publication: Business Travel News
Publication Date: 10-FEB-03 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
At a time when at least a half dozen vendors in Europe are parading their solutions for integrating Web-only content with global distribution systems, General Electric, which maintains one of the largest and most respected travel management programs in the world, has thrown in the towel.

In lieu of a pending solution from its online booking provider, Sabre's GetThere, GE has spotlighted on its European travel extranet pages the opportunity for travelers to make reservations directly with rail providers and low-cost carriers "not available through the local GE Travel Centre or GE-TRes." GETRes is GE's name for the online booking technology it uses, a mix of the former Sabre BTS and GetThere DirectCorporate systems. The extranet pages offer links that direct travelers to the public Web sites of such low-cost airlines as Ryanair and Easyjet. Another page, updated in December, offers a map...



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