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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Multiple distribution channels emphasized with channel manager usage. Off late Travel management companies have seen different customers with multiple choices. Having a variety of travel offers in hand will bring customers from different locations and of different genre.

PROVAB TECHNOSOFT, the leading hotel reservation system development company in India suggests travel agents and OTAs to use the best of the travel APIs (for both GDS and XML)

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Below are some of hotel XML suppliers:

• 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

• KUONI XML Integration - European Hotel Inventory

• MIKI 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

• Travel Asia XML Integration - Far East Hotel Inventory

• Hotels Do 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

Below are some of Flight GDS/XML suppliers:

• Amadeus
• TravelPort
• Galileo
• WorldSpan
• Sabre

Below are some of Car and transfers XML suppliers:

• Car Trawler,
• A2B
• GTA & Hotelbeds (for transfers)

Below are some of Bus XML suppliers:

• TicketGoose
• Redbus

Below are some of Cruise XML suppliers:

• MSC
• Princess
• Carnival

PROVAB also offers multiple XML connectivity at an affordable price, so you can give the product and services to your customers more choices with just a click of a button. The APIs we integrate to your system will make it easy for third parties. When you use Travel APIs with Multiple XML connectivity, you’ll have the following benefits:

• Reduce operational costs
• Offer more variety of products
• Improve customer service
• Provide comprehensive service
• Increase profits and sales
• Monitor your business with statistics in real-time and more ...

One of the main challenges the travel agencies are facing is connection with multiple providers like Travel GDS and in the management of contracts and licenses. The process is usually long and can happen. However, our experience in integrating and devising solutions have helped our customers to integrate several providers in a single platform in a short time.

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Increasing craze for leisure travel creates exciting opportunities for those interested in starting a new travel agency. Hard work and creativity will guarantee success in the moderately challenging travel booking business.

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Decide what kind of travel agency want to launch. You can decide to have a small business from home. Alternatively, you may want to buy an existing franchise. Some agents work as independent contractors established agencies, which can give a foothold while you build a reputation for your new agency.

You must meet the requirements of your country or state. Governments and local administrations vary on what they expect from the new travel agencies. Some require certification, others want the agency to register. Many require paying for an endorsement of the new agencies.

Think about what you can offer to the travel industry that makes you unique. Some new travel agents offer luxury tour packages. Others specialize in eco-tourism, adventure travel and student travel. Or you can opt for solo travelers or travels to a particular destination. Start a newsletter. Make phone calls. Distribute flyers. Give good service to your customers and see their number grow.

To start on Online Travel Agency apart from certifications and other legal authorities one needs to have contents related to travel like flights, hotels, transfers, cars, sightseeing, insurance and holiday packages etc. One has to partner with major aggregators of all these services to provide them the contents. Different suppliers have different terms and conditions and different negotiation process. Choosing the right supplier is again a difficult job.

With all these challenges PROVAB TECHNOSOFT helps it’s clients to tie up with major suppliers of the world with different travel services specialty and who can provide their contents through XML interface and allow them to be integrated through Web services.

If you can earn credentials, which will give credibility with potential customers and travel suppliers then that is best as you can integrate any GDS system including Amadeus GDS, Galileo GDS, Sabre GDS etc. . One of the most respected credentials is a badge of the International Air Transport Association (IATA acronym). To be eligible for the card, you have to earn a salary as a travel agent and work 20 hours a week in the business.

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PROVAB is a leading travel agent software development company with client base in 18 countries. We develop comprehensive online travel portal development with booking engines of 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.

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With PROVAB's travel software, clients can:

• Have B2C, B2C, corporate and white-label modules
• Manage multiple suppliers including GDS & hotel consolidators
• Manage separate sub-domains / domains for end users and agents
• Update the markup from the backend
• Have IP based currency option
• Have comprehensive reporting system

With PROVAB's travel software, clients can get following integrated:

• GDS (Amadeus, Galileo / Travelport, Sabre)
• Hotel Aggregators (GTA, Hotelbeds, Hotelspro, DOTW, Expedia & many more)
• Car Consolidators
• Transfers Consolidators
• Sightseeing Consolidators
• Cruise Consolidators

PROVAB TECHNOSOFT is strategic partner to GDS systems and API providers / suppliers & consolidators. We work with all the major travel consolidators and integrate following travel website software -

• GDS / Global Distribution Systems – Amadeus GDS, Travelport / Galileo GDS, Sabre GDS
• Hotel Aggregators – GTA Travel, Hotelbeds, Tourico, Travco, Special Tours, HotelsPro, TransHotels, Miki Travels, Sun Hotels, Darina Holidays, DOTW, Asian trials, Versys, Expedia & many more
• Transfers – GTA & Hotelbeds
• Car Aggregators - Car Trawler, A2B
• Bus Aggregators – TicketGoose and Redbus
• Cruise Aggregators - MSC, Princess and Carnival

Regarding Author:

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

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Power of Youth travel and travel technology

The research team of PROVAB TECHNOSOFT, leading offshore travel Technology Company in India, here presents how the young tourists warrant for new innovations in travel technology used by travel agents, because they are all heavy users of technology.

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As per a PROVAB study, the main motivations that drive young tourists, globally, are price, possibility to book online, reviews of other users and connectivity while traveling. This indicates the necessity of providing the best seasonal discounts and cheapest rates, easy-to-use online booking site and mobile app, facility for your customers to record their experiences in the tourist place, and keeping your consumers connected.

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For young people, not surprisingly, the most important factor when choosing a destination or make a reservation is price, followed closely by the opportunity to book their trip online. The latter is crucial. Young people do not go to the travel agencies but organize it directly from computer without leaving home. More and more bookings and purchases made via Smartphones and Tablets while the desktop computer seems to be losing relevance gradually. The idea is to book quickly and easily, in the shortest possible time, through a platform where it is possible to have various options, compare, and read reviews from other users.

The young sector of travelers depend too much on online comments. They check what other people have said about the place of their intended visit, before taking a decision. The young traveler is an expert in surfing tourist sites looking for opinions and reviews of other users.

In addition, young people use their smartphones and tablets extensively while they are traveling. They like to share experiences with friends and family. Facebook is the king here.

The young tourism is very dynamic. Young people travel, and travel a lot. It is true that they want to spend little, and usually have lower incomes than other older age groups, but also have more free time, so his escapades are more frequent and longer stays, which in the long term generates higher spending. They have withstood the crisis, which has failed to stop them traveling. For this reason, more and more companies and destinations are geared towards the youth sector, to diversify its market.

Young people are the future of travel and provides the best growth opportunity for tourism. It is they who push tourism businesses to innovate, to transform, and catch up on new technologies which they handle so profusely. Young people are demanding, are knowledgeable and know what they want, and are setting the pace of new tourism, molding it according to their needs and tastes.

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For handling the ever growing network of various online reservation systems, there are the global consolidators, which consolidate the global travel data from various airlines, hotel providers and car providers. Such a system that aggregates and distributes travel related information to end travel management companies, is called GDS System / Global Distribution System.

GDS System is a centralized reservation system used as an ultimate access point by different travel agents for reservations on different reservation systems. It is a computerized travel reservation system that provides automated transactions between Vendors and travel agents who in turn provide booking services to the travellers. GDS works in 3 sectors namely, airline reservations, hotel reservations and car rentals. A GDS system connects all of these three sectors and a huge share of worldwide travel bookings goes through GDS and other consolidators.

The major GDS systems are Amadeus, Sabre, Apollo, Galileo, Worldspan, Abacus and Infini. These have links to the airline's database and provide all links to the travel agents who are the primary customers. Basically it is a medium used by various travel agents to access the seats, rates and booking information related to different airlines. It connects various such reservation systems all together within a single entity and also connects them to various other GDS present so as to provide combinational services like flights plus hotels or hotels plus rental cars etc.

The association between single ARS – Airline Reservation System and the GDS is so advanced that the booking systems and the travel agents access availability and pricing information in real time. Whole process of searching and booking and generating the PNR, can be finished in in no time. In case of ARS, whenever a booking is made, a PNR is generated that contains all the journey details for that passenger. GDS also holds the entire data in that PNR, called user profiling whereas ARS contains PNR details for that passenger only related to that particular airline.

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Pseudo-City Code (PCC) or a Subscriber ID is the Identifier that distinguishes one travel agency location from another. This code may be a 3–5 character code (alpha, numeric, or combination) on the basis of the GDS. PCCs are inevitable when adding negotiated rates, as these rates can be “defined” or secured to an agency by using their PCC.

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PROVAB TECHNOSOFT, a leading GDS i. e global distribution systems integration company provides you travel XML API tool which integrates travel content and inventory from multiple supplier source systems and translates them into a unified XML format (content aggregation and/or translation). With our tool you can easily get access to all major global distribution systems (GDS directly, hotel providers, cruise providers, rent-a-car providers, bus operators, etc.

We supply the technology highway to GDS & Non-GDS content and you can access those content and inventory via a single XML interface. All travel products and services including low cost carriers listed on GDSs including Amadeus, Galileo/Apollo, Worldspan and Sabre will be accessible to you via our tool.

If you are planning to integrate with more than one GDS or other content source in near future, we can help you in that endeavor. We will provide you a single interface for multi GDS sources. This will be very convenient to you since you need to maintain just one interface instead of every supplier system separately. You need not worry about the time to time technology changes. As an authorized developer for all GDS's for over a decade, PROVAB TECHNOSOFT has the GDS and travel XML Interface expertise to make you ready for any technology update.

When you enroll in card services of GDSs like Sabre, select single location if you are an agency with only one location. Select multiple locations if you are an agency with more than one location. If you operate from more than one location you have to list Pseudo City Code of Primary Location.

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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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Unlike Hotel Consolidators XML GDS (GDS Booking System) is also a source of distributing airline and hotel inventory.

The GDS Booking System was one of the earliest invention in the world of Internet Booking Engine system to improve the airline reservation system. A computer reservation system was used for reservations of a particular airline with the interface of this global distribution system (GDS). GDS is mainly used for distributing airline inventories. GDS also distributes the inventories for Hotel, Car etc.

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All the information from the individual airlines vis-à-vis airline schedules, fare tariffs, passenger reservations and ticket records are pushed to this GDS system apart from their own in-house reservation system. This GDS system in turn works like a distribution channel. Travel agencies ,Tour operators and other indirect distribution channels access the same GDS as those accessed by the airlines’ reservation systems and all messaging is transmitted by a standardized messaging system that functions high level network. Message construction standards are set by IATA and ICAO, are global, and apply to more than air transportation.

To reduce the costly in-house reservations the airlines have decided to distribute the major contents (flight details and the seat availability) through GDS suppliers or GDS providers.

Following are the major GDS providers in the market

• Amadeus Integration
• Travelport (the merged version of Worldspan and Galileo Integration)
• Sabre Integration
• Shares Integration
• Abacus , serving asian market
• Travelsky , serving majorly china
• Infini , serving majorly japan
• Axess, serving majorly japan
• Topas, serving majorly south korea

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