hotelbookingsystem: Start Travel Business

PROVAB TECHNOSOFT (http://www.provab.com) is one of the leading online travel reservation system development and merchant account integration company, delivering best in class travel software and hotel reservation system software to global travel management companies.

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Starting a travel business from home is a good idea indeed. You need only a little investment. It is low-risk too. Just that you must be very enthusiastic to offer your clients best in class travel deals.

The first step in your home based endeavour, is finding the right host agency. It’s better to have a host agency. It will keep your spending low, give you big commissions, and do your backend office. Moreover, if you are a novice in travel industry, they will train you too and assist you in running the business. Most of the host agencies have their online travel software in place, which you can also get access off.

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With the host agency, you need not have an ARC, CLIA, or IATAN number which is costly and difficult to get for a startup. The host agency’s accreditation number is enough and it will be your parent company. If you use the GDS, the host will take care of the ARC report which will be time-saving to you. They will also help you to get a travel agent license as required by your region.

After the processes are established and you have clients inflow, you can them focus on Travel APIs integration and Hotel APIs integration on your website.

Hotel APIs provide facility to search a very large number of hotels and reserve hotel rooms of one’s choice instantly. You can search using multiple parameters, including location, price, star rating, travel dates, number of days of stay, etc. XML is used for server/client communication. PROVAB will provide a key to use this API.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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