Showing posts with label Travel agents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Travel agents. Show all posts

Tuesday, 17 February 2015

Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana based Agencies using Top Travel Agency Software switching to OTA model.

PROVAB TECHNOSOFT (provab.com) is a leading online travel portal development company, guides you to top travel agency software a travel agency must implement so that their sub agents or endusers search, book and manage travel related things efficiently and accurately.
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 Travel Agency Software

A Travel Agency Software generally includes flights, hotels, transfers, cars, sightseeing, insurance and holiday packages. Based upon the size of travel agency PROVAB customizes the software 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, travel agencies can:
  • build B2C, B2C, B2B2C modules
  • integrate and manage multiple suppliers including GDS & hotel consolidators
  • manage separate sub-domains / domains for end users and agents
  • markup management from the admin panel
  • add multiple payment gateway with multiple currency options
  • integrate comprehensive reporting system
  • integrate a robust CRM system
  • integrate hotel extranet system to manage the hotel contents by the hotel sub-contractors itself.
  • integrate channel management system to manage the hotel contents for various hotel suppliers.

Travel Agency software can intergrate following API’s and XML through web services.
  • GDS (Amadeus, Galileo / Travelport, Sabre)
  • Hotel Aggregators (GTA, Hotelbeds, Hotelspro, DOTW, Expedia & many more)
  • Car Consolidators
  • Transfers Consolidators
  • Sightseeing Consolidators
  • Cruise Consolidators
To stay ahead of the curve, a robust travel software is the basic need of travel agencies today. Travel agent software, not only offers a 24/7 sales system for travel companies, but also provides a comprehensive web based admin to review the booking logs and users summary from any corner of the world.
To know more about us, please visit http://www.provab.com. You can call us at +91.8880321321and email us at info@provab.com.

Sunday, 8 February 2015

Travel Software & Travel Apps are giving edge to agencies in Poland, Denmark and United Kingdom

The travel industry has undergone a major makeover with the introduction of the online travel software and the consequent implementation of travel apps. Earlier planning a vacation was thought to be a task that required intense management skills. We have to go to a travel agent for airline booking or rail booking. Making a hotel reservation was again done through a travel agent or was accomplished after reaching the destination. We would have very vague idea about the “must visit places” at the destination, and would have to hire a travel and tour guide for the same. Similarly arranging a car rental at the destination of visit was done by coordinating with the local travel agent or the hotel.

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Travel Software


The situation at present is totally different from the statements mentioned earlier. Now we don’t visit a travel agent for airline booking or hotel booking and we don’t contact travel agencies for car rental booking. We don't require a travel guide to tell us about the places to visit at our travel destination nor do we depend on anybody to tell us the direction of a place. Have you ever wonders how the process of planning a vacation have become so smooth and  peaceful in the present times. Now I have the privilege of making airline reservation, rail reservation, hotel reservation, car rental reservation and planning the trip sitting at the vicinity of my home or office or any other place of my comfort.

The big question is, how this happened? This advance stage in the travel sector was achieved through the implementation of technology. Technology came in the form of development of travel agency software and travel apps. The travel agencies too have undergone a major makeover and now when we think of travel agencies, the picture that comes to our mind is an automated system which has all the information and facilities required to plan my trip.

Benefits of Online Travel software for Travel agencies

Travel software have been very beneficial for the travel agencies as it has bought a total change in the way the travel agencies used to work. Now a travel agency doesn’t depend on the traditional system of using a pen and paper to keep track of the transaction or depend on handwritten information pertaining to the details regarding dates and availability for airline, rail and hotel reservation.

Travel agencies now have an online booking system, where global distribution system integration helps in making all information including availability and pricing available to the clients. The end-users can compare the rates and availability and proceed with the airline reservation, hotel reservation and car rental booking. Similarly maintaining data, information and generating reports have become lot more easier and automated with the help of travel software.

Below are the distinct advantages of travel agency software -

Accessible from any location
Automated system for maintaining information
Automated system for maintaining data and generating reports
Data is centralized
Easy migration to mobile platform
Quick service to the clients
Enhance level of customer satisfaction

Benefits from travel Apps

With more and more people across the globe preferring to access information through their mobile device, travel agencies now have their own travel apps to enhance their business. Travel apps are available for airline reservation, Rail reservation, hotel reservation, car rental reservation, accessing travel blogs, planning the trip and accessing the locations.
Travel apps have also helped the travel agencies to respond to the queries raised by the end-users at the earliest and bring enhancement in the level of customer satisfaction. As per the research conducted on travel apps, it was found that travel apps have helped the travel agents to acquire more clients.

Our vacation and travel planning has become lot more easier at the present times. This was only possible due to the implementation of travel agency software and travel apps by the travel agencies across the world, making our travel more comfortable and enjoyable.

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

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Friday, 5 December 2014

Online Travel Agency Softwares for Travel agents and OTA





PROVAB is a leading travel software development company with client base in 18 countries. We develop comprehensive travel agency software including 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.
Different types of online travel agencies need appropriate softwares:
WHOLESALERS: Those who plan, prepare, and organize different travel services in order to offer them exclusively to other travel agencies to retail these services to their customers. Modular software for wholesalers must handle the operational and reservation needs of tour operators, wholesalers and other travel distributors. This software must be controlling costs through accurate resource planning and selling of travel products.
These Wholesales generally need a B2B model or a B2B2C model.
RETAILERS: They are travel agencies that sell the products supplied by wholesaler agencies directly to the user or consumer, or who plan, prepare, organize or sell all kinds of services and package tours directly to the user; which prevents the marketing of these products through other agencies. Softwares for retailers must have back office management and accounting system, front office system and booking modules.
These Retailers generally need a B2C model or a B2B2C model.
Flight Booking software for OTAs
Flight booking engine enables you to offer direct online flight booking to your customers. Such a software will have the options for one-way trip, round trip and multiple cities. Cheapest or the fastest flight may come first as he chooses. Software will also let the customer to know whether more cheap fares are available in the nearby dates. All the flight details like in-flight catering are provided at a click. Customer may be asked to sign up with his email and his behavior in the system is recorded. If he buys, email or text confirmation will be sent automatically. Offers related to his past bookings and searches will be notified to him from time to time. An efficient travel technology company can integrate different GDSs to your flight booking software.
Hotel Booking software
Hotel booking software for OTAs will have B2C, B2B, and admin module. A good travel technology company can integrate Hotel XMLs to your software. With this software, even a small travel agency can offer thousands of hotels worldwide or in his focused destinations.


Bus Booking software
Main functionalities of bus booking software are deciding route, providing routes to various vendors and buses, seat selection, booking, cancellation, etc. Bus booking software will alos provide a Vendor Management System with which your vendors can deploy, add, delete, update their bus services and routes. Bus booking APIs can also be added to your existing travel software.


Car-rental booking software
Car booking software is nowadays indispensable for OTAs, big or small. It’ll have XML-API and B2B. B2C, and B2B2C distribution channels. A good travel technology company can integrate all the suppliers like Cartrawler, Car Del Mar, Holiday Auto, Sunny Cars, Holidaycars, Traveljigsaw, etc. If needed, you can also have direct integration with top brands like Avis, Hertz, Europcar and others. With a Car rental booking software, any OTA can instantly be car rental distributor. A good software will connect you to multiple suppliers and display search results in a mapped interface. You can also offer combination offers: flight+hotel+car with the multi-segment order management panel of the car rental software.
Cruise booking software
Any travel agency wishing to get super-rich customers and corporate clients and big commissions must grab a software for providing cruise booking. A good travel technology company can provide you a cruise booking software which will have a customizable UI for different groups of users. With it, you can offer accommodation of a large party with different itineraries in a single booking, support for shared cabins (male, female), flexible group booking functionality, etc. You will be able to offer Seaware support for simple or complex voyages. Cruise booking software may also have Ship Public Facilities, extensive conference room support and restaurant configuration and reservation capabilities.
Payment Gateway Software
Online payment gateway, is a web based system that allows end users to make the payment at the ecommerce stores through credit cards / debit cards and net banking. Payment gateways are offered by different banks and other dedicated payment processors. It is basically a service provided by a billing processor, which allows credit card information to be collected and passed over the internet. A Payment Gateway can be understood as a digital equivalent to a credit card processing terminal. Payment gateways also provide merchants with transaction management, reporting, and billing services.
With PROVAB's travel software, clients can get following integrated:
  • GDS
Amadeus, Galileo / Travelport, Sabre, WorldSpan, Abacus
  • Flight API
Expedia, Travelocity/ Orbitz, Myfarebox/ Mystifly, Travelfusion, Bravofly , ebookers, TBO ,Arzoo , Cleartrip, Herms, Via, Riya travel online, Yatra etc.
  • Hotel Aggregators
Desiya, Hotelbeds,Hotelspro, GTA, Travco, Miki Travel, Jack travel, RoomsXML, GTA, HotelBeds, Kuoni, Travco, Travco, Hotelspro, TransHotels, JacTravels, DOTW, Bedsonline, Miki, Asia Travel, TravelFusion Hotels, Go Global, Special Tours, CBS, Expedia, Bonotel, Restel, Priceline, Travel guru/ Desiya, Hotelsbed, Expedia private label, Hotelston
  • Car Consolidators
A2B Transfers, cartrawler, Carsolize, GTA Transfers, HotelBeds Transfer, TravelPort Transfers, Amadeus Transfers
Savaari, Thrifty Car Rental
  • Transfers Consolidators
Redbus, Abhibus, Travel yaari, Etravelsmart
  • Sightseeing Consolidators
GTA, HotelBeds, Viator
  • Cruise Consolidators
CruiseLine
  • Payment Gateway
PayPal, Authorize.net, EBS, PayU, Atom, Techprocess, Citrus, ICICI, HDFCBank, AXIS bank


To stay ahead of the curve, a robust travel software is the basic need of travel agencies today. Travel agent software, not only offers a 24/7 sales system for travel companies, but also provides a comprehensive web based admin to review the booking logs and users summary from any corner of the world.
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