Sabre Corporation is signing a new partnership with and Expedia Affiliate Network which will see Sabre adding more than 63,000 new hotel properties to its travel marketplace. Travel agencies will now have access to the EAN rates and availability through the Sabre GDS. “Travel agencies will have more hotel options to offer their customers,” said Shelly Terry, vice president of travel product solutions, Sabre Travel Network.

Travelport, a travel commerce marketplace providing distribution, technology, payment and other solutions for the $7 trillion global travel and tourism industry, has joined forces with Expedia® Affiliate Network (EAN) – the private label arm of the world’s largest online travel company, the Expedia group – and Majid Al Futtaim Finance – a leading provider of credit card and prepaid solutions in the region – to launch the UAE’s largest online travel rewards scheme, Najm Voyager Rewards.

Expedia Affiliate Network (EAN) has appointed Arthur Hoffman as division President. Hoffman moves to the EAN division from the Expedia group’s Rome-based online reservations business Venere.com, where he has been Managing Director for the past four years. Hoffman takes over from Henrik Kjellberg, who is joining Expedia’s leading discount travel site, Hotwire.com.

Expedia Affiliate Network (EAN) has announced an extended partnership with Air Tahiti Nui (ATN), one of the South Pacific’s leading international airlines, in a deal which will see ATN use the latest version of EAN’s hotel retailing platform, Chameleon.

Expedia Affiliate Network has announced a new partnership with New Zealand’s Travelbug, one of the country’s most successful OTAs. The deal will see EAN powering Travelbug’s international hotels offering, as the site expands from its current domestic focus to sell hotels in destinations worldwide.