Showing posts with label CRS Hotels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CRS Hotels. Show all posts

Friday, 6 November 2015

Expedia Hotel API Integration, Hotel Booking System for Travel Agencies in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Ghana


http://www.provab.com - Hotel APIs / Hotel XMLs are web services provided by the leading hotel aggregators like GTA, Hotelbeds, Agoda, Expedia, Hotelspro, DOTW, RoomsXML and several others alike. Hotel APIs provided unrestricted access to huge hotel inventory compiled by hotel consolidators. Online hotel booking system is a term for web application offering the seamless ability to search and book hotels online. It covers a range the entire range of hotel / rental business, connected or non-connected with hotel aggregators. It is currently one of the most important part of online travel industry as online hotel booking systems are generating all the high bookings worldwide. Hotel booking systems are also having advantage because of its absolutely convenient due to its 24-hour availability, global reach and generally efficient customer service.

Hotel booking system is basically of two types, B2C – which is focused towards end customers and B2B – which is focussed towards travel agents. Travel industry today operates operates in all four of the major market segments: business to business, business to consumer, business to corporate and white-label. Hotel booking system can be thought of as a more advanced form of global hotel catalog, where in user can search, check images, check pricing and do the booking online.
Setting up an online hotel booking system can be done in following two ways:
  1. Hotel Booking System with Hotel APIs
  2. Hotel Booking System with Self Contract Inventory (Hotel CRS / Hotel Extranet)
Hotel booking systems have expanded rapidly over the past five years and is predicted to continue at this rate, or even accelerate. Carrying out hotel booking transactions electronically provides numerous competitive advantages over primitive methods. More over, the hotel inventory, which is one of the most important components of any hotel booking system, is accessed through hotel APIs, which have global data. When implemented with several hotel APIs, online booking system becomes faster, cheaper and more convenient than the traditional methods of bartering goods and services.
Hotel Booking System with Self Contract Inventory (Hotel CRS / Hotel Extranet)
Hotel booking systems with self contracted inventory are implemented more, for a specific geography. For example any travel company having several hundred hotel contracts in Dubai, will go for this model rather than going for hotel APIs. The commission in this model is more than the API model.
GTA Travel, Hotelbeds, Hotelspro, Tourico, Travco, Expedia, DOTW, Bonotel and several other hotel aggregators are providing the best in class hotel inventory with good rates.  
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Author is a travel technology expert and has been involved in several travel portal development projects.
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Friday, 9 October 2015

Develop Hotel Booking System with Hotel APIs / XMLs integration for global room inventory - PROVAB.com

http://www.provab.com - With the evolution of online hotel booking system, traveling has become easy and comfortable. Sitting in your living room, you can avail the ease of planning an
exotic holiday vacation in your dream location with the help of online hotel booking
system.  Nowadays, hotel booking systems are popular travel portals as they connect users to an extensive inventory from multiple hotels wholesalers across thousands of destinations worldwide.

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The leading hotels also incorporate hotel booking software to help their clients do the booking online. The hotel booking software plays a significant role in the planning as it allows the users to find the most competitive hotel rates as per their choice along with the multiple suppliers and get the best results for a specific geographic area or product category which suits their budget.

Key Features of hotel booking system software, are:

• Numerous selling channels: B2B, B2C, XML OUT, B2E, White Label.

• Several inventory sources: In-house contracts and allocations, online
suppliers, hotel extranet and B2S portal.

• Various Payment Options: Credit Limit, Cash, Bank Transfer, Credit
Card

• Hi- Tech Mid and Back-Office Tools: Mark-up Definitions, Agent Commission and Cancellation Policy.

• Many Language and Currencies option.

Key Benefits of Hotel Booking Systems:

• Exclusive emphasis on web-based automated software, no hardware is needed.

• High flexibility – ascendable and robust platform.

• Reasonable price package – pay as you use with SaaS model.

• Rapid to launch, easy to use – spontaneous user interface and omprehensive modules.

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Author is a senior business analyst and an expert in travel software development and marketing strategy implementation.

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Tuesday, 18 August 2015

Internet Hotel Booking System for Hospitality Companies : Hotel APIs Integration – Expedia, Hotelbeds, Hotelspro, DOTW and Travco - PROVAB.com

http://www.provab.com - Much has changed in travel technology over a decade. Traditional way of search and booking the travel deals are no more in fashion. Online booking system has become the keyword of travel domain across the globe. At present, online booking systems are most widely used for used for airline reservations, hotel & motel reservation, cab reservations and custom holiday packages. More and more booking systems are also connecting the event booking XMLs as well. In a nutshell, online booking system is internet based booking system software, which can be accessed by users through the unique URL, services can be searched and bookings could do done.
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There are many web services / hotel APIs, which can be seamlessly integrated to bring the best inventory at best price.
Hotel APIs
  • GTA
  • Hotelbeds
  • Hotelspro
  • DOTW
  • Travco
  • Tourico
  • Restel
  • Miki
  • Jac Travel
  • Expedia
  • Priceline
  • Bonotel

GDS
  • Amadeus
  • Galileo
  • Sabre
A GDS system will also provide the data for hotels, cars and cruise apart from flights. It also provides the information to various distributors and travel agencies working simultaneously round the world.
Regarding Author:
Author is a travel technology expert and has been involved in several online booking systems.
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Tuesday, 5 May 2015

Online Reservation System for Hotels : Hotel APIs – Expedia, Hotelbeds, Hotelspro, DOTW and Travco

http://www.provab.com - Much has changed in travel technology over a decade. Traditional way of search and booking the travel deals are no more in fashion. Online booking system has become the keyword of travel domain across the globe. At present, online booking systems are most widely used for used for airline reservations, hotel & motel reservation, cab reservations and custom holiday packages. More and more booking systems are also connecting the event booking XMLs as well. In a nutshell, online booking system is internet based booking system software, which can be accessed by users through the unique URL, services can be searched and bookings could do done.
Get a Project Quote - http://www.provab.com/get_quote.html
Online Reservation System

There are many web services / hotel APIs, which can be seamlessly integrated to bring the best inventory at best price.
Hotel APIs
  • GTA
  • Hotelbeds
  • Hotelspro
  • DOTW
  • Travco
  • Tourico
  • Restel
  • Miki
  • Jac Travel
  • Expedia
  • Priceline
  • Bonotel

GDS
  • Amadeus
  • Galileo
  • Sabre
A GDS system will also provide the data for hotels, cars and cruise apart from flights. It also provides the information to various distributors and travel agencies working simultaneously round the world.
Regarding Author:
Author is a travel technology expert and has been involved in several online booking systems.
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Saturday, 20 December 2014

Online Hotel Booking Software & Extranet gaining pace in Nigeria, Egypt & Kenya




Hotel extranet stands for hotel central reservation system and is commonly used by travel agencies worldwide. Its about compiling the global hotel data in niche places and setting up the DB with hotel details, images, availability and pricing. It works like as independent online hotel booking system but for niche cities and specific hotels, which are not available across all the web portals.
CRS as a tool is used to reach the global distribution system or GDS along with internet distribution system from a single point system. Hotel managers use this tool to manage their online sales and marketing avenues. They also project their rates and availabilities which are easily viewable by the sales channel i.e. the online travel agencies team aligned with CRS.
Some of the primary functions in CRS as below
  • Fully flexible and scalable for growing business.
  • Platform which is easier to use.
  • Manageability of rates, availability and content or information from single point of entry.
  • Connectivity of hotels to GDS, online travel agents as well as mobile booking engines.
  • Multiple distribution channels emphasized with channel manager usage.
Now lets understand, what information is stored in Hotel CRS. Information includes room types, room rates, conditions, inventories, plan rate architecture, reservation information, graphical information in the form of video, pictures and detailed hotel information like address, phone and fax numbers and geographical code information.
Hotel CRS reporting module is very important and calls for a number of standard reports. System reports are those reports which can be run daily, weekly, monthly or yearly and sometimes on need based request. Some of the basic reports include for expected arrivals, reservation, property forecasting, property details, agent activity and daily booking activity summary.
So CRS can be conceptualized as backend office system of a booking engine which enables administration of rates and availabilities with ease and comfort. It also involves the management of statistical evolution of all incoming reservations.
In a nutshell, with the presence of Hotel CRS, travelers can search for more hotels and book them in a more efficient manner, as it works like a hotel’s central reservation system.
Here are few ways CRS benefits a company and travelers
  • While travelers reserve their requirements over the hotel spread, convenience and efficiency comes into picture.
  • Travel policy compliance increases as travelers use company-preferred booking or reservation channels
  • From company’s viewpoint, as hotel booking data which is very vital is captured, this data is used for performance measurements and sometimes supplier negotiations.
  • Traveler satisfaction is boosted as the tool is more user-friendly.


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