How to build a B2B Travel Portal with top hotel suppliers?

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B2B Travel Portal is a “business to business” model of online travel portal. All the travel agencies, which are either OTA or going to be OTA, they are aware about the impact of B2B travel portal on their business. As travel agencies have changed the way, users searched and booked the travel deals. Rather than the traditional model of searching the deals, all the leading companies are offering B2C and B2B, both the web interfaces to customers to use it. In this article, we will discuss more about B2B travel software.

Travel being a global business, the agencies and companies are closely connected. Sharing the inventory across the globe, clearly have sustainable business advantage. Inventory of one agent can be sole by another agent sitting in another country, using these B2B travel portals.

Key Features of online travel portals, 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 comprehensive modules.

For best B2B travel portals, inventories are also needed from the top hotel suppliers, which are as following:

•      GULLIVER – GTA XML Integration - Hotels, Tours, Transfers

•      TOURICO XML Integration – Hotels, Cruises – Worldwide Inventory

•      HOTEL BEDS /HOTELBEDS XML Integration - Worldwide Hotel inventory

•      DOTW (Destinations Of The World) XML Integration - Middle East Hotel Inventory

•      HOTELSPRO XML Integration - Worldwide Hotel inventory

•      JAC (JACOB) XML Integration - Worldwide Hotel Inventory

•      SPECIAL TOURS XML Integration - Europe & Middle East hotel inventory

•      TRAVCO XML Integration - USA Hotel Inventory

•      TRAVELPORT and Galileo XML Integration - (WORLDSPAN, GALILEO, THOR) – Flights

•      BOSCOLO XML Integration - European Hotel Inventory

•      JUMBO XML Integration - European Hotel Inventory

•      TravelAsia XML Integration - Far East Hotel Inventory

•      HotelsDo XML Integration - Spanish Hotel Inventory

•      SMILO XML Integration - Spanish, European and Central American Hotel Inventory

•      WHL XML Integration - Italian Hotel Inventory

•      Transhotel XML Integration - Spanish and European Hotel Inventory

•      RESTEL XML Integration - Spanish and European Hotel Inventory

•      GOGLOBAL XML Integration - WorldWide Hotel Inventory

•      WORLD AVENUES XML Integration - Middle East Hotel inventory

•      Hilton XML Integration - Worldwide Hotel inventory

•      Paradores XML Integration - Spanish Hotel inventory

•      BARCELO XML Integration - South American and Spanish Hotel inventory

•      BONOTEL XML Integration - Luxury Hotels and Resorts in North America

•      ASTRAL HOLIDAYS XML Integration - BULGARIA Charter flights and Hotels

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Global travel technology company Sabre is developing travel services that work across a number of wearable devices including smartwatches and Google Glass.

TripCase, Sabre’s leading travel itinerary management app, is the first travel app of its kind to integrate with the highly-anticipated Samsung Gear S smartwatch.

The integration allows the traveller to click the notification on the watch to open the TripCase app to the relevant place on the mobile device, and will include a click-to-call feature next month. In addition, consumers using Android Wear devices and the Pebble and Pebble Steel watches can receive TripCase travel notifications directly to their wearable devices.

TripCase users wearing these smart devices will receive real-time flight alerts, gate changes and other travel information conveniently on their wrists at a time when minute counts. This initial integration lays the ground work for more advanced TripCase services to be accessible on wearable technology in the future. TripCase is on pace to manage more than 25 million trips in 2014.

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“As the adoption of wearable technology grows, we want to ensure that the travel industry is ready to leverage this technology and serve travellers on the device they prefer,” said John Samuel, senior vice president of Sabre Traveller Solutions. “Wearable technology is fast becoming a prominent means of customer notification and communication. We’re looking to take it even further – from a one-way means of communication to an interactive, on-the-go service experience,” said Samuel.

Researchers expect a large proportion of the population to embrace wearable computing in the near future as evidenced by the adoption trajectory of other technology advances like the smart phone and tablets. Juniper Research forecasts that worldwide spending on wearable technology will hit £870 million this year and will reach £12 billion by 2018. Further, wearable computing is already expanding beyond the early adopters and quickly becoming more mainstream, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). The research firm estimates that more than 19 million wearable computing devices will be sold in 2014, and forecasts the global market to reach 111.9 million units in 2018.

Sabre’s Google Glass prototype flight finder app was the company’s first foray into testing wearable devices and operates by finding flights based on a user’s simple voice command,: “Ok Glass, Find a Flight from London Heathrow to Miami in June.”

“Wearable technologies – such as smartwatches and heads-up devices like Google Glass – will forever change the way consumers experience travel – from shopping via virtual reality to voice command recommendation,” continued Samuel. “Creating these full service experiences require not just smart devices but also more precise location services and smart recommendation services.”

Sabre Labs, the technology incubator and research lab at Sabre, continues to explore the application of geo-location technologies and their application to wearable devices in the travel experience. Understanding a traveller’s precise indoor location and developing services that use that context to share information and interactions on wearables will be a critical piece in creating a more intuitive experience for travellers.

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Author is a senior business analyst and an expert in travel portal development and marketing strategy

implementation.

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