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customers, including travel agents, corporations and on-line consumers, can
use the Sabre system to make reservations with more than 420 airlines, more
than 50 car rental companies and nearly 40,000 hotel properties worldwide.
As of the end of 1998, over 40,000 travel agencies in more than 100 coun-
tries subscribed to the Sabre system.
The explosive growth of Internet commerce has brought challenges and
opportunities to The Sabre Group. As one of the pioneers in electronic commerce, The Sabre Group is in the
forefront of exploring and realizing the potential of the Internet to travel distribution.
Travelocity, with its easy-to-use graphical application, provides consumers with travel and destination
information from suppliers around the world. Launched in 1996, Travelocity had registered more than four
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