B2B B2C Travel Portal Development, Meta Search Engine, Travel Extranet – OTA in 2016

Want to start your own online travel agency but confused between API or White Label Integration provided by your suppliers?

PROVAB TECHNOSOFT (provab.com) is a leading online travel portal development company, guides you to differentiate between the two with their own advantages and limitation.

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About API integration/XML integration:

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API (Application Programming Interface) specify how the developed software and its component intersect for getting the results. XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a markup language which specify the rules of encoding the documents.

The main role of a travel API is to bring contents related to Hotels and other hotel related information such as room (image, description, price, availability, policies, package, hotel chains etc.) and Flights and flight information (description, itinerary, price, availability, PNR etc.). Other Add on API’s include transfers, cruise, tours, payment gateway, SMS, mobile and DTH recharge etc.

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To build a global hotel booking system, l APIs / XML play a key role in bridging the best in class inventory. To approach the inventory of hotels and flights to be implemented in a travel reservation system software, travel technology developers have to integrate the travel content in the form of APIs. Travel API integration is a growing requirement for travel management companies and needs complete understanding of the API and the technology used for proper integration.

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The main advantage of API integration is, it gives real time content 24/7 for real time bookings through your own system with your payment gateway. Tou will retain your own customers that you have built throughout those years. The Back end admin and management is completely controlled by you.

PROVAB provides wide range of XML integration from hotel consolidators like GTA, Tourico, Hotel beds, DOTW, Hotelspro, Jacob , Special tours, Travco, Travelport, Boscolo, Jumbo, TravelAsia, HotelsDo, Smilo, WHL, Transhotel, Restel, GoGlobal, World Avenues, Paradoes, Hilton, Barcelo, Bonotel, Astral and many more having worldwide inventory from India, Middleeast , Europe, USA, Far East, Central America, South America etc.

PROVAB also provides GDS integration with major GDS systems like Amadeus, Sabre, Apollo, Galileo, Worldspan, Abacus and Infini. 

About White Label:

White label websites are easy to start and work with. These websites can easily modify as per your need. White label means there is no label and you can place your own label there. You can make it and brand it as per your company name. Though the customers book hotels, flights, cars or tour from your website, the back end CRM system is managed by your parent partner/franchiser.

Conclusion: If you have a very good technical team and your vision is big along with your budget you should choose API integration. If you don't have much investing strength and not able to handle lot of technical issue of software/server/api, then you should prefer with White Label Travel Portal.

To know more about us, please visit http://www.provab.com. You can call us at +91.8880321321and email us at info@provab.com.

With Regards,

Ujjwal K
Business Manager
PROVAB TECHNOSOFT
http://www.provab.com

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Travel Portal Development & Travel Apps seeing surge in Iran, Turkey, Thailand

The total travel volume had grown several folds in the last decade and so thus travel agencies and travel management companies are. Most of the travel companies are graduating to OTA model and deploying the best in class travel portal development project to provide the ultimate user experience to their clients. OTA stands for Online Travel Agency and under this model – almost all the process are web based starting from the itinerary search to bookings.  

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Travel software development and travel mobile apps have become the huge opportunity. As smart phones are increasing their length and width across the globe, its imperative to have a next generation system, which can cater to online travel software model and fulfill the need for travel mobile app too. This is why a consolidation is needed for the travel software products with the mobile technologies, may be android app, html5 app or iphone app.

Related: More on Travel Portal Development

Like very business, travel domain also has something to share to its client on the go. It may be a new travel deal for client, a itinerary confirmation, change in the flight schedule, information about new packages. These can be seamlessly connected between the travel software and mobile app, could be shared to clients in real time. This not only builds the brand in a better way but this proactive approach improves the client relationship as well.

As per recent surveys, end users and travel agents, both will shift to online travel software, which gives the accessibility on desktop systems smart-phones. This not only saves their time but also improves the productivity. Travel agencies can develop mobile apps through travel technology companies and get it integrated into their existing travel system. This will not only help retaining the existing clients but also build a new customer base as well.

Related: Amadeus GDS Web Services

There are many good travel technology companies, delivering responsive travel websites using HTML5 and CSS3. This enables the travel software compatibility on cross platform and ensures that every user on every device can access the data seamlessly. It’s a right time, when travel agencies start consolidating their travel portal for cross platform compatibility and build the native apps to deliver the best to end users.

Author is a travel technology expert and has been involved in several travel portal development projects.

Resources:

http://www.provab.com

http://www.provab.com/travelportaldevelopment.html

http://www.provab.com/travel-technology-company.html

Travel Technology, making travel easier and happening.

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Travel technology has come a long way over the last decade. Traditional methods of travel planning and booking are almost vanished in thin air. Today, travelers use technology to great extent to plan the travel, book the travel deals there by making travel process easier.

Young travelers are the generation born towards the end of the last millennium and grew in the arena of wireless internet, smart-phones, considered as gen Y. The ratio of this generation using the travel technology is high, when compared to people with 40+ age. With smartphone and mobile internet in hand, travelers are searching all the travel deals on the responsive travel websites and mobile compatible travel software. Survey shows that major part of online travel booking now comes through hand held devices.   

Travel technology has evolved, not only as online booking and itinerary processing system, but it has become a way to plan the whole travel starting from  flight booking, hotel booking, car booking, reminder for important documents, creating a common travel group and sharing the images / videos. The whole travel process and post travel activities are now all connected through the travel technology.

Travelers are checking the travel websites for everything, it may be weather, fight / train / bus timing update or any value added information. Mobile has become a tool for checking and sharing on the go. The mobile phone with the travel mobile app, has become an online travel agency.  Searching, booking, sharing – everything is available right at finger tips.  

Travel technology companies have taken a great part in this growth story. These companies have developed some great travel products in last few years. Travel website development and travel apps are much in demand. All the leading travel agencies are partnering with top travel technology company to deliver a product, which can actually create a wave in travel domain. Next two years, it will be interesting to see as to how the travel domain grows.

Author is a travel technology expert and has been involved in several travel portal development projects.

Resources:

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http://www.provab.com/travelportaldevelopment.html

http://www.provab.com/travel-technology-company.html

Personalised Offer and Dynamic Content becomes USP for travel booking software and OTA

The Travel booking software offered by the travel technology company allows OTA to manage their customer by providing them the window to personalise their own trip or manage their travel plans. 

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With increase in competition, various travel agents want to retain their existing customer and give them the benefit to plan their own travel itinerary.

To maximise the revenue and boost conversion on your travel agent website here are some tips

• Create two partitions in the website , one for travel packages and individual bookings of flight, hotels, car etc. and another section where customer can book a travel itinerary with the combination of flights+hotels and car reservations

Some of the personalised contents works best like

• Customised banner slide of the home page
• Customised marketing messages
• Customised featured promotion
• Contents for different regions
• Focusing of different holiday seasons which are different for different regions.
• Focusing on different offers that travel agents give while customer is doing their bookings like free breakfast, advance booking discount options, weekend extensions, fuel credit etc.
• Expand the dynamic content personalization to new audiences while utilizing more elaborate content personalization techniques and approaches, such as: customized design versions of the property Home page; personalized content pages; specialized landing or promotional pages; foreign language versions or summaries of the website, etc.
• Promotion of spa and golf or children specific entertainment, free wi-fi, guest appreciation programme.

Hotel Extranet System has the following Features:

• Manage Rooms availability, number of rooms and dates available to book
• Rates - Change Rates , Increase or reduce the rates day by day or a period of dates
• View all confirmed, Modified and Cancelled bookings
• Adding Special offers for your hotel
• Generate Daily Arrival Report, Reservation Details Report, Cancellation Report, Billing Details Report, Inventory Report & Nationality Rate reports
• Manage Policies - Payment policy, cancellation policy, tax policy, terms & Conditions & Property Policy
• Add Unlimited Photos & small size video. 

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