GetThere will team with Tata Communications to offer GetThere's corporate clients a video and conference-call solution so they can conduct virtual meetings without hopping a plane.
It's all good for the environment and a smart move as GetThere is offering corporations access to Tata Communications' public and private Telepresence rooms -- replete with high-definition video and audio hook-ups -- as a way to enhance efficiency and lower the boom on large corporate carbon footprints.
Still, it's a bit of an ironic twist for a travel company, Sabre's GetThere, to be discouraging, well, travel.
Tata's telepresence tag line is: "Better than being there."
Tata Communications and GetThere shortly will begin pilot tests of the program, and plan on a broader rollout later this year.