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

Resources:

• http://www.provab.com/travelportaldevelopment.html
• http://www.provab.com/xmlintegrationsolutions_hotelbookingenginedevelopment.html
• http://www.provab.com/hotelcrssoftware_crshotelsreservationsystems.html
• http://www.provab.com/hotelreservationsystems_hotelmanagementsoftware.html

Start Online Travel Agency using Travel eCommerce Website and Travel Portal Software

PROVAB TECHNOSOFT (http://www.provab.com) is one of the leading travel technology companies, delivering best in class gds travel software and reservation system software to global travel management companies.

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The first step in your home based endeavor 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.  

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.

Experts recommend to restrict your travel business first to some niche rather than offering all airlines and hotels in the world. It may be for a particular region or a special holiday package. But don’t market just one product, try two or three. Or you can cater to the travel needs of business travelers to a particular country. Or try your luck in booking charter planes for the high-end corporate travelers or billionaires. Name your travel agency accordingly. Try to offer something, which is little different from the generic node.

You are in travel business to make money by providing quality, reliable service to your customers. Have separate accounts and track business expenses. To get your home-based travel agency clicked, you must have a working knowledge of travel agency software, customer service experience and experience in traveling to the destinations you deal in.

Keep on having very satisfied clients and serve your clients to the max. Word of mouth does wonders in travel business.

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

With Regards,

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

Online Travel Software, Booking Reservation System and CRS Systems are giving edge to travel agencies – PROVAB.com

http://www.provab.com - The future of travel portal development could be directly related to the growth of travel industry. In the last decade, the travel industry has witnessed many important changes and implementation of technology to every aspect of tourism has been one big leap, which has benefited the travelers along with the organizations into the business of tourism. The aspect of development can be related to the emergence of travel portals and travel apps.

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Online Travel Software

A travel portal is developed with the main aim of providing online booking facilities for the end-users, visiting the website. The most important features included in travel portal are air ticket booking, hotel booking, bus booking, car booking and chartered plane booking. Previously air ticket booking was considered to be the most important element of travel portal development. With the airlines becoming stingier, hotel booking is predicted to be the future of travel portal development.

The aviation industry over the world and specifically in India has been going through a turmoil phase. We often hear stories about the soaring prices of the airline tickets, decline in the demand of air travel, increase losses mounted by the airlines and in certain cases the carrier busting has lead to the decline in the number of air travelers. The current incidents of Malaysian Airlines and Air Asia flights have raised question over the safety of the air passengers. At one point of time air ticket booking was considered to be an eminent part of travel portal development, now it has taken a back seat. Travel portal analysts predict that the future of travel portal development is with hospitality industry.

To stay in competition, low cost carriers are selling their air tickets directly through the airline websites. Selling tickets at a discounted price or lower price has been one of the marketing strategies of the airlines to sustain the competitive market. When such kind of offers is put forward by the airline company, they try to sell maximum number of tickets through their own website, giving a stringent space to the travel agencies or the travel agent. Presently the airlines sell 50% of the tickets through their company’s portal, compared to the earlier percentage of 30%. The message is very clear, the airline companies want to eliminate the online travel agent and cut down on the thin profit margin that they get. Hence the future of travel portal development is not safe with airline booking.

Hotel booking turns out to be a much safer option. With the number of travelers increasing with each passing year and new destinations discovered by the people in the travel business, the demand for accommodation has been rising. The statement holds true specifically for the exotic locations, where even a small company into the hospitality sector want to project its premises and get booking from international travels. Since the margins for the airline reservation are under pressure, the business model of the travel portal development is moving towards hotel reservation and holiday packages which projects a better prospect of growth and revenue generation.

As per Deep Kalra, the founder and CEO of makemytrip.com, the travel portal use to get 90% of its business from air travel, which has now dipped to 70% and is further predicted to go down to 50%. As per the recent data, priceline.com regarded to be the most valuable travel agency, generates 97% of its total revenue from selling hotel room. The case is same for expedia.com, where the 73% of the total revenue generated on a yearly basis comes from hotel booking. Selling hotel booking through the travel portal is an attractive offer as hotels share 10% - 15% of the profit with the travel agents, making it a profitable deal. Selling rooms for fragmented landscape comes with a better profit margin. This comes as a good deal for small hotels which cannot afford to spend money on advertisement for hotel room booking.

With the travelers getting accustomed to booking hotel rooms online, travel portals are gaining good amount of profit from hotel booking. The travel portal can tie up with numerous numbers of hotels across the globe and process hotel room booking for them. As per the data, earlier only 30% of the bookings were done online and the rest were done through phone. The present scenario is different, where 70% of the booking for the hotel rooms is done online and 30%over the phone.

Even the hospitality industry is making things better for the guests with the touch of technology. Owing to the rise in the number of travelers willing to be a part of the wonderful journey of technological hospitality, the future of Travel portal development is safe with hotel booking.