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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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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.

Travel ticketing software and OTA travel ecommerce solutions, helping agencies in Kuwait, Turkey and UAE – PROVAB.com

http://www.provab.com - Ticketing system in travel technology means an online booking system to search and book, flights, hotels, transfers, sightseeing and holiday packages. Travel ticketing system supports immediate booking and request management (*which is called queuing up), both the models. Ticketing system also refers to travel software (travel agency software), which are widely used by global travel management companies.

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A ticketing system / travel agent software is online system to store & to retrieve travel related contents. The data may come from the ticketing system’s database or it may come from the GDS Systems – Global Distribution Systems or the third party suppliers. Ticketing system may process the transactions related to flights, accommodations, transfers, cars, cruise and other travel related services. There are three kinds of ticketing systems, which are most widely used today.

• Ticketing System connected to GDS
• Ticketing System connected to Third Party Suppliers
• CRS based Ticketing System

A ticketing system / travel software, while issuing any ticket connects to primary flights / hotels / cars data to find real time availability and pricing. Once the availability is confirmed, users can proceed to make payment to confirm the booking. This whole process is automated and end users get the booking confirmation / PNR or voucher in no-time after making the payment. Below are distinct advantages of travel ticketing system / travel agency software.

• Round o clock availability, improved sales and great client satisfaction.
• Fully automated system, and thus saves alot of time of end users.
• PNR / Vouchers are generated immediately.   
• Comprehensive backend with markup module, currency module, report module and user DB.

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

How is growth of travel technology and distribution platforms in United Kingdom, Germany and Spain?

Travel agencies in Europe are spending a-lot on process automation and OTA model. Top travel agencies in United Kingdom, Germany, Spain are partnering with top travel technology companies in India for setting up best in class travel portal.

PROVAB TECHNOSOFT (provab.com) is a leading travel technology provider, supplying robust travel software / travel portals to clients in USA, India, Middle East, Far East & Europe, by integrating the GDS systems and third-party consolidators. We execute both B2C and B2B travel portal development projects.

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As we can see the growing rates of travel eCommerce websites in the market, we can simultaneously see growing travel portal development companies, which are competing in serving and developing the best in class travel portals / booking systems / accounting systems and travel CRM by providing some of their own unique and updated features and providing time bound services to their clients. In such a race, it is very much required for any travel agency to partner with professional travel portal development company to stay ahead from the competition.

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Good travel portals not only showcase your products and services effectively, but also provide a quick and easy select & book option to ensure the user experience is as enjoyable as possible and attract more and more users towards the brand. With so many travel e-commerce options available, it can be difficult to go through the marketplace and find the best fit for your business, while also ensuring at times, you choose a solution that integrates easily with your already established website.

While deciding upon a particular travel software solutions company after short listing it according to your features list, the know-hows of the company and details are inevitable. This is because a company with enough experience in your required field can provide you with a better service. You should make sure the experience of that particular company in successful travel eCommerce development and specially matching something like yours and then go through those designs and features.

In case you like the pattern of a company it is essential to get good reviews about the firm from its previously served clients, then you have a good technology partner in hand. Another significant point is your budget and the prices offered by the development company. The prices should be reasonable as per the market standards and the quality of service they are offering.

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Start a travel agency under OTA model with portal and extranet solutions

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.  

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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.

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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.

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Online Travel Agency

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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How merchant accounts can increase ONLINE TRAVEL SOFTWARE sales – PROVAB TECHNOSOFT (info@provab.com)

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

A merchant account is a specific kind of bank account intended to hold funds taken from credit and debit card sales through online payment interfaces on travel software and POS. When a customer pays for booking travel products using credit or debit card, money from his account is immediately transferred to the travel agent’s merchant account. From there, money will be transferred out to a normal business bank account through a standard protocol.

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Taking payment individually from those who book flights, hotel rooms, etc, through you travel agency might have become a little difficult because of increased transactions on a day to day basis. Often, smaller travel agents don’t get the merchant accounts directly through the banks so easily. But online travel software definitely needs payment gateways to survive. That’s why third party payment gateways like PayPal, 2CO etc are used worldwide.

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Our integration will provide you real-time information, fares and other costs, availability of travel products and services. Our GDS integration features include hassle-free integration with travel solutions, entirely automated system and robust back office. We also integrate low-cost carrier APIs as well as third-party airline APIs Arzoo, Cleartrip, MakeMyTrip, Gobibo, Yatra, etc.

Travel technology companies help them in devising an effective online strategy taking into account all the above. They enhance their digital presence through Twitter, Facebook, email, etc. They develop travel portal using the best of travel technology and web services available. Setting up engines for booking flights, hotels, etc, as per the requirements. The suppliers are integrated. Then the content management is started.

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David Mathew
Business Manager
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Travel Portal Software & Travel Mobile App, must for small and medium travel agencies.

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Travel portal software is a web based reservation system, which is used for online flight booking, hotel booking, car booking and other travel deals. As reports suggest, more and more travelers, especially the youngsters, tend to book their flights and hotels through their smartphones and thus responsive travel portal software and travel mobile apps have become a necessity for small and medium travel agencies.

In July 2014, a leading travel company released a report stating the impact of mobile in the managed travel space. It predicts travel bookings through mobile will greatly increase in the next ten years. Travel agencies will use latest mobile technology to deal with their travelers. By 2017, mobile booking will increase to 25%.

Benefits of mobile are hassle-free, fast and efficient running of travel business, more productivity and profits and travelers’ wellbeing. Travel agencies want travel technology companies to supply a one-stop-shop app which cater to all their needs as well as of their customers.

Travel technology companies in India, who supply responsive travel portal software / travel portal development projects and customized mobile apps to travel managing companies in different parts of the world like Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Melbourne, Amsterdam, Nairobi, Copenhagen, Dhaka, USA and Brussels. Their travel portal software are now equipped with travel alert features, besides flight status updates and itinerary information. Indian travel software companies emphasize on productivity and compliance to laws in respective countries when they design and develop apps and websites for travel agencies in European countries such as Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, France, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany and Britain. When the global travel companies offshore their travel software development to India, they know that they are going to get a best in class travel web portal to offer unmatched services and great user experience to their clients.

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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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