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Sabre promotes experienced travel industry leader Nicole Regel to oversee teams in Australia


SINGAPORE and SYDNEY  22 September 2021Sabre Corporation(NASDAQ: SABR), a leading software and technology provider that powers the global travel industry, has promoted experienced travel industry leader Nicole Regel to oversee the Sabre Travel Solutions agency business across Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. 

 

Nicole, whose career in the travel business spans 25+ years, has been promoted to Senior Director in a significantly expanded role as she takes on the leadership of the Australia and New Zealand team while also retaining her role overseeing Sabre’s ongoing partnership with the Flight Centre Travel Group. Her focus will remain on leveraging Sabre’s best-in-class technologies and unrivalled access to global markets to grow its travel business in the region.  

 

She has experience across the wholesale, airline, TMC, and technology sectors and has held leadership roles within operations, sales, and account management. The move builds on three years as Director, Global Accounts, at Sabre for Nicole as well as high-level roles within other well-known travel and airline businesses including CT Connections, Virgin Australia, and Creative Holidays.  

 

In her spare time, Nicole enjoys socializing with family, friends, colleagues, and industry peers and is looking forward to resuming travel as soon as she is able to do so. She is taking the opportunity while international travel is not possible to learn to sail.  

  

As Senior Director, Nicole will continue to be based in Sydney, reporting into Sabre’s regional headquarters in Singapore.  

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