As part of Sabre Travel Network Middle East's commitment to continuously investing in the development of the region's travel industry and the expansion of its value offering to travel industry professionals, it has today signed its first ever agreement with Al Manar University of Tripoli in Northern Lebanon. The world's leading supplier of travel distribution services, Sabre will begin providing a number of introductory and advanced courses to trainees interested in breaking into the travel industry, which is currently experiencing massive growth throughout the Levant.
Sabre has provided comprehensive training to a certified instructor who will be responsible for teaching the Sabre courses at the University. The courses are designed to introduce students to the Sabre Reservations System, as well as teach them the basics of fares, pricing, ticketing, refund and revalidation, and is part of an educational initiative targeting entry level travel industry professionals around the region, which will help give those students an extra skills set, and thereby an advantage, when entering into the travel market.
"We are big supporters of education here at Sabre, and this agreement is part of a larger regional drive to help students get a leg up in the industry. This is one of the first agreements of its kind we have penned in the region, and we plan on expanding the scope and geographical spread of it as time goes on to encompass universities and training institutes all over the GCC," said Daniel Naoumovitch, CEO of Sabre Travel Network Middle East.
Sabre is the first GDS to provide this kind of training content to a third party training institute in the region, and the initiative falls under the company's wider plan of working closely with local travel communities to expand its services into different sectors and provide value added services to travel professionals across the board.
Sabre is at the forefront of one of the world's fastest growing industries. Travel agencies across the Middle East region use Sabre's wide product range as tools to maximise their customer offer in addition to having the support of Sabre's 16 offices in 11 countries across the Middle East and the Levant.
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About Sabre Travel Network
Sabre Travel Network, a Sabre Holdings company, provides the most comprehensive end-to-end solutions for corporate and leisure travel. The Sabre GDS is the foundation for these solutions, providing a ready-built efficient marketplace that connects travel suppliers, including hundreds of airlines and thousands of hotels, with more than 50,000 travel agency locations. Currently, Sabre collectively handles over 70 percent of the BTN 100 bookings.
Key brands of Sabre Travel Network include GetThere, for corporate travel reservation technology; Nexion, a host agency; SynXis, for hotel reservation management, distribution and technology services; E-site marketing, specializing in online business solutions exclusively for the hospitality industry TRAMS, mid- and back-office solutions and marketing services for travel agencies; and TRAMS Marketing Alliance (TMA), a marketing promotions services for leisure travel agencies. Sabre Travel Network also markets TripTailor Vacations, a travel wholesaler providing dynamic packaging for the travel agency marketplace.
About Al Manar University of Tripoli
Al Manar University of Tripoli was founded on the 15th of November, 1990. The university is established to serve students and business in Tripoli city as well as the cities in Lebanon and the Arab world.
MUT strategic objective is "quality of education" in achieving such objective. MUT offers majors and specializations which serve and satisfy needs of local market as well as Arab countries' markets with qualified and well trained graduates in various academic skills namely, Business Administration, Public Health ,Architecture and Graphic Design, Engineering and Information Technology.,
The community service department includes all external programs such as "Intensive English, CISCO, and IATA. Such service encourages the integration process between the local community and the university within the Context of Continuous Education Process.
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