Thursday, July 17, 2025
Sabre Corporation, the leading technology provider to the global travel industry, and Christopherson Business Travel, one of the largest Business Travel agencies in the U.S., have signed a new long-term agreement. This agreement establishes Sabre as Christopherson’s key technology provider, confirming a partnership that leverages Sabre’s technology innovation in content aggregation, automation and intelligent retailing with Christopherson’s experimentation and stance in travel management.
A Step Closer to the Future of Travel on Company Business
Thirty on Travel Weekly’s esteemed 2025 Power List, Christopherson Business Travel remains clear of its purpose, uniquely poised for intelligent growth, rigid operational discipline and relentless dedication to customer services and technology. As the business environment grows more complicated, the organization considers the need to streamline its processes to better serve changing corporate travel program requirements. Utilizing Sabre’s comprehensive range of offerings, Christopherson Solutions looks to gain efficiencies, streamline service delivery, and deliver a competitive advantage to its clients in a dynamic marketplace.
The Sabre partnership is an important component of Christopherson’s overall effort to ensure more consistency, flexibility, and efficiency within the travel management portfolio. Through the implementation of Sabre’s cutting-edge technology into its operations, however, the company is not only streamlining, its current systems, it is also future-proofing them. Central to these enhancements is Christopherson’s proprietary Andavo platform to enable quicker integrations, deeper data access and higher level traveler engagement. The platform will integrate with Sabre’s industry leading technology to provide customers with a more automated, insight-driven and personalized experience.
Engaging with Sabre solutions for new opportunities
As part of this agreement, Christopherson Business Travel will implement a variety of Sabre tools to enhance its travel management offerings. With Sabre Red 360, the industry’s smartest agency tool, Christopherson’s travel agents will have access to faster, more content-rich shopping solutions, within a fully personalized interface. This is crucial in supporting smart, real-time access to a myriad of travel possibilities, in order to be able to present travelers with the best options.
Sabre’s powerful APIs will also help augment Christopherson’s capability to access the dynamic content from multiple sources, such as NDC offerings, in a secure and scalable way. The integration will grant the company access to and distribution of a wider range of content, including air, hotel, rail and car, for a more rounded and flexible travel offer. Sabre’s Automated Exchanges & Refunds solution will also help streamline post-booking servicing by eliminating manual work and improving productivity.
Trip Proposal will simplify the process of producing customised, branded travel itineraries, slashing hours or days off the time it takes to put a proposal in front of a client. With the help of Sabre’s Market Intelligence, Christopherson will now have data-driven intelligence at their fingertips to better optimize travel performance and enable more strategic decisions. These functionalities work together to establish an intuitive, high performing atmosphere, which enables the delivery of service excellence and operational efficiency.
Integrated with Sabre’s Open System Architecture
One of the key benefits of the new collaboration is Sabre’s partner-ready architecture, which will enable Christopherson to upscale its Andavo platform with multi-source content through Sabre’s APIs. This integration will enable the company to provide an even richer and more personalised travel experience without ever having to overhaul their current systems. Sabre’s integration model is flexible which allows agencies like Christopherson to turn on new functionalities and technologies without having to sunset existing infrastructure.
This tight integration between Christopherson’s Andavo platform and Sabre’s solutions, will facilitate smarter shopping, automated servicing and a seamless access to a broad range of content for travel buyers. This will allow Christopherson, in a very competitive market where differentiation is difficult, provide an enhanced level of service efficiencies and better operations.
Building Relationships and Adding Value to Customers
At its heart, the partnership is focused on value for Christopherson’s clients. Leveraging Sabre’s leading travel capabilities will enable the company to provide more flexible distribution ubmodels and uncover new retailing opportunities, further establishing itself as a key player in the travel management space. The company’s agility to pivot to an individual client need and custom create a solution for business travel will also reinforce Christopherson’s eighty-plus years of service to its wide range of client types including a base of over 1,000 organizations across the country.
As the collaboration progresses, Sabre and Christopherson remain dedicated to shaping the future by further integrating technology into the world of corporate travel. By leveraging Sabre’s cutting-edge technology, Christopherson will continue to be known as a visionary travel management company that provides complete client satisfaction, efficiency, and value.
In conclusion, this partnership between Sabre and Christopherson Business Travel represents a major breakthrough for the travel management space, paving the way for more intelligent, easier, and customized travel solutions for businesses. With Sabre’s forward-looking technology and Christopherson’s focus on future opportunities, the two are poised to address the changing needs of the worldwide travel industry and sponsor businesses in navigating today’s complex travel management landscape.
