Increasing craze for leisure travel
creates exciting opportunities for those interested in starting a
new travel agency. Hard work and creativity will guarantee success in
the moderately challenging travel booking business.
Decide what kind of travel agency
want to launch. You can decide to have a small business from home.
Alternatively, you may want to buy an existing franchise. Some agents
work as independent contractors established agencies, which can give
a foothold while you build a reputation for your new agency.
You must meet the requirements of
your country or state. Governments and local administrations vary on
what they expect from the new travel agencies. Some require
certification, others want the agency to register. Many require
paying for an endorsement of the new agencies.
Think about what you can offer to
the travel industry that makes you unique. Some new travel agents
offer luxury tour packages. Others specialize in eco-tourism,
adventure travel and student travel. Or you can opt for solo
travelers or travels to a particular destination. Start a newsletter.
Make phone calls. Distribute flyers. Give good service to your
customers and see their number grow.
To start
on Online Travel Agency apart from certifications and other legal
authorities one needs to have contents related to travel like
flights, hotels, transfers, cars, sightseeing, insurance and holiday
packages etc. One has to partner with major aggregators of all these
services to provide them the contents. Different suppliers have
different terms and conditions and different negotiation process.
Choosing the right supplier is again a difficult job.
With all these challenges PROVAB
TECHNOSOFT helps it’s clients to tie up with major suppliers of
the world with different travel services specialty and who can
provide their contents through XML interface and allow them to be
integrated through Web services.
If you can earn credentials, which
will give credibility with potential customers and travel suppliers
then that is best as you can integrate any GDS system including
Amadeus GDS,
Galileo GDS,
Sabre GDS
etc. . One of the most respected credentials is a badge of the
International Air Transport Association (IATA acronym). To be
eligible for the card, you have to earn a salary as a travel agent
and work 20 hours a week in the business.
PROVAB is a leading travel
agent software development company with client base in 18
countries. We develop comprehensive online
travel portal development with booking engines of flights,
hotels, transfers, cars, sightseeing, insurance and holiday packages.
The travel software is customized to meet the day to day needs of
travel agents / travel agencies and end customers. Starting from the
initial search, availability response, selection summary, payment &
PNR / voucher generation, everything can be managed online and
amendments can be done through backend.
With PROVAB's travel software,
clients can:
- Have B2C, B2C, corporate and white-label modules
- Manage multiple suppliers including GDS & hotel consolidators
- Manage separate sub-domains / domains for end users and agents
- Update the markup from the backend
- Have IP based currency option
- Have comprehensive reporting system
With PROVAB's travel software,
clients can get following integrated:
- GDS (Amadeus, Galileo / Travelport, Sabre)
- Hotel Aggregators (GTA, Hotelbeds, Hotelspro, DOTW, Expedia & many more)
- Car Consolidators
- Transfers Consolidators
- Sightseeing Consolidators
- Cruise Consolidators
PROVAB TECHNOSOFT is strategic
partner to GDS systems and API providers / suppliers &
consolidators. We work with all the major travel consolidators and
integrate following travel website software -
- GDS / Global Distribution Systems – Amadeus GDS, Travelport / Galileo GDS, Sabre GDS
- Hotel Aggregators – GTA Travel, Hotelbeds, Tourico, Travco, Special Tours, HotelsPro, TransHotels, Miki Travels, Sun Hotels, Darina Holidays, DOTW, Asian trials, Versys, Expedia & many more
- Transfers – GTA & Hotelbeds
- Car Aggregators - Car Trawler, A2B
- Bus Aggregators – TicketGoose and Redbus
- Cruise Aggregators - MSC, Princess and Carnival
Regarding
Author:
Author
is a senior business analyst and an expert in travel
portal development and marketing strategy implementation.
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