Sabre Holdings announced the launch of TripTailor, the newest addition to the Sabre Holdings family of travel brands.

TripTailor is a new travel wholesaler business from Sabre that is part of its one-stop shop offerings for travel agencies to create customized trips for their customers–a unique travel package built specifically for each traveler to more than 1,500 destinations throughout the United States and around the world.

With the debut of TripTailor, Sabre connected agents gain the capability to easily search for the best and most cost-effective combination of air, hotel, car and travel extras for both advanced and last-minute bookings.

"Trip Tailor has made travel agents and travel agencies a force to reckon with in this competitive travel marketplace," said David Butler, president of Travel Club Advantage. "On behalf of our agency and our many clients, we say thank you and look forward to a continued relationship in bringing great travel prices and packages to our clients. We will be making use of it on a daily basis."

TripTailor provides a single source on an agent's desktop to shop for packages available worldwide, offering more than 1,700 travel extras in over 150 destinations, including admission or reservations to attractions, shows, special events, tours, fine dining, transfers, parking and many more activities, as well as travel protection.

Agents can book fully customized vacations including flights to more than 200,000 city pairs months in advance, or just prior to departure for long or short, domestic or international, and budget or luxury vacations. Agents access TripTailor directly through TripTailor.com or through the MySabre agent booking portal.

According to PhocusWright research, packaged travel is expected to reach $23 billion in 2006–up from $15 billion in 2002. Not only is the total packaged travel market growing, but the percent of dynamic packages booked will also grow from 11% of all packages to 45% in 2006.