Case Study: Costco Travel achieves low costs and high efficiency with Sabre Web Services

Costco Travel Provides Quality Vacations Powered by Sabre Web Services

Costco Travel needed to offer a tightly curated selection of four‑ and five‑star vacation packages at exceptional value while keeping efficiency high and costs low — including the technical challenge of aggregating live content from many airlines, hotels and cruise lines into its proprietary booking tools. To address this, Costco Travel partnered with Sabre, implementing Sabre Web Services and the Sabre Cruises® Web Services API to feed supplier data directly into its systems.

Sabre provided Web Services integration and helped build a custom air-and-cruise web platform so updates flow automatically between suppliers and Costco’s booking tools, removing manual updates and reducing one‑off training for new partners. As a result, Sabre enabled faster rollout of new travel choices, improved operational efficiency and lower operating costs that Costco Travel can pass on to members through better pricing, upgrades and amenities.

Costco Travel

Peter Gruening

General Manager