Sabre GDS System develops services for wearable devices.
Wearable devices are considered to be the next generation prospect for travel technology. Sabe has been wise enough in investing in technology for the wearable.Global travel technology company Sabre is developing travel services that work across a number of wearable devices including Smartwatches and Google Glass. Sabre is preparing for the dramatic impact that wearable would have in the future. The impact would be on the way the travelers shop for and experience the travel. As per the researchers, travel portal development would expect a large population who would embrace wearable computing in the near future. Wearable computing is already on the verge of expanding and is expected to become more mainstream.
For – B2CTravel Portal Development-Get a Project Quote –
http://www.provab.com/get_quote.html
Sabre Global Distribution System
Global Distribution System Integration
TripCase, Sabre’s leading travel itinerary management app, is the first travel app of its kind to integrate with the highly-anticipated Samsung Gear S smartwatch.
Related: Travel Portal Development Egypt
The integration allows the traveller to click the notification on the watch to open the TripCase app to the relevant place on the mobile device, and will include a click-to-call feature next month. In addition, consumers using Android Wear devices and the Pebble and Pebble Steel watches can receive TripCase travel notifications directly to their wearable devices.
TripCase users wearing these smart devices will receive real-time flight alerts, gate changes and other travel information conveniently on their wrists at a time when minute counts. This initial integration lays the ground work for more advanced TripCase services to be accessible on wearable technology in the future. TripCase is on pace to manage more than 25 million trips in 2014.
“As the adoption of wearable technology grows, we want to ensure that the travel industry is ready to leverage this technology and serve travellers on the device they prefer,” said John Samuel, senior vice president of Sabre Traveller Solutions. “Wearable technology is fast becoming a prominent means of customer notification and communication. We’re looking to take it even further – from a one-way means of communication to an interactive, on-the-go service experience,” said Samuel.
Global Distribution System
Researchers expect a large proportion of the population to embrace wearable computing in the near future as evidenced by the adoption trajectory of other technology advances like the smart phone and tablets. Juniper Research forecasts that worldwide spending on wearable technology will hit £870 million this year and will reach £12 billion by 2018. Further, wearable computing is already expanding beyond the early adopters and quickly becoming more mainstream, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). The research firm estimates that more than 19 million wearable computing devices will be sold in 2014, and forecasts the global market to reach 111.9 million units in 2018.
Related: Amadeus GDS System
Sabre’s Google Glass prototype flight finder app was the company’s first foray into testing wearable devices and operates by finding flights based on a user’s simple voice command,: “Ok Glass, Find a Flight from London Heathrow to Miami in June.”
“Wearable technologies – such as smartwatches and heads-up devices like Google Glass – will forever change the way consumers experience travel – from shopping via virtual reality to voice command recommendation,” continued Samuel. “Creating these full service experiences require not just smart devices but also more precise location services and smart recommendation services.”
Sabre Labs, the technology incubator and research lab at Sabre, continues to explore the application of geo-location technologies and their application to wearable devices in the travel experience. Understanding a traveller’s precise indoor location and developing services that use that context to share information and interactions on wearables will be a critical piece in creating a more intuitive experience for travellers.
How has facebook and twitter has helped travel reservation systems and web portals to grow?
In online travel booking domain or OTA web application portals, one of the eminent changes that we have seen is the impact of social media and the impact that they have on transforming the whole idea of sales of travel deals online. The present time advertisement provides more emphasis on customer engagement and building the very important element of “TRUST” among the customer. Building trust among the customer has been never being such an eminent part of advertisement as it is now. Success of online travel software totally depends on that.
RF – BreakingTravelNews.
PROVAB TECHNOSOFT (http://www.provab.com) is an award winning travel technology company, delivering best in class online travel software and CRS systems to global clients.
