How to start an Online Travel Agency – OTA

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Whether you are on inbound or outbound travel and tourism company or you are selling tickets and travel products on behalf of major travel suppliers, you need to be online. OTA in general is represented by large travel agencies who are selling travel products from across the globe. Such OTA are either connected to GDS system or individual airlines from long time. Travel startups who want to start this online business in competent to all the large travel management companies, can build their own online reservation system with any travel product with the help of travel technology company.

Now the question comes:

How to start an online travel agency?

Here are few steps:

1. Modules: First you have to decide which all modules you want to have in your travel agency website

Flight?  Hotel?  Car? Transfers? Vacations? Bus? Cruise? Forex, Visa, Insurance Etc…

These are just basics. If you have something else to be added like safaris or events you can add that.

2. Suppliers: Now, these contents / services can be brought in your website by either having a CMS system for whatever services contents you have or you can just integrate the XML / API to get the contents from third party suppliers. Choose the right set of travel API for every travel product that you want to sell. Apart from that there are many other APIs, so if you have any personal choice you can suggest which will enhance the User Experience – UX

3. Business Model: Once you choose modules for your website, you can define the business model. Choose the travel technology partner who can develop following business model through which you can operate your business like any other OTA.

B2B, B2C, B2B2C, B2B2B, Affiliate network / White label solution

Make sure that the system should be flexible, if you want to start with basic model of B2C travel portal and later add B2B or B2B2C, B2B2B then you can do that. Even with APIs also you do the same.

4. Payment Gateway: Integrating Single or Multiple Payment Gateways will allow your customer to book directly from your website.

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How to start an online travel agency, OTA

Things that need to take care for Flight Reservation System module:

GDS: Please note that for integrating any of the GDS systems, you need to have an IATA license plus you must have authority to sell the tickets. Otherwise you can use any other IATA agent’s IATA number to sell tickets.

Flight API: There is one more option, Flight APIs are also available with good inventory of global airlines. You can integrate LCCs (low-cost-carriers) also above the GDS system mentioned above.

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

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

Travel Agent Software developed by PROVAB TECHNOSOFT will provide the following functionalities

• Design and Develop responsive web design for travel agency
• Design and Develop travel mobile apps based upon the business idea.
• CRS system development to enable search and bookings.
• GDS connectivity, API and XML integrations in the website to get large inventory.
• Differentiating and implementing different business models within the booking engine system like B2C, B2B, B2B2C, B2B2B
• Enabling ticketing system- especially for airlines, bus and events.
• Printing: invoices, confirmations, vouchers, room lists, passenger lists etc.
• Automatic forwarding to suppliers (email or fax) of reservations, requests, changes and cancellations
• Sending electronic invoices and electronic vouchers
• Reports: Sales report in various category and services to plan further marketing strategy.
• Control of purchase invoices, domiciliation of sales invoices
• Mobile version of the travel software as a travel app.
• CRM system to cater to all the customers seamlessly
• Accounting software to manage all the accountings to run the business smoothly
• Channel manager system development to automate the distribution process of your services.

We provide a complete office application and reservation system for the travel industry, where it is possible to use the system for both the Intranet and the Internet. This gives you the opportunity to show the actual availability and real-time price to your customers. Due to these factors, online booking solution for tour and activity companies built by PROVAB TECHNOSOFT are considered to be the best.

With our software for tour operators, an operator can take booking and accept card payments. With the integrated reader we provide, your employees can scan and validate tickets. Thus you can prevent fraudulent tickets.

Why Amadeus software is in great demand among agencies in Saudi Arabia, Dubai and other middle east countries?

Amadeus GDS is known as one of the best global distribution systems across the globe. Amadeus software uses the web services and using which online travel booking systems could be connected with amadeus travel inventory. So basically Amadeus GDS software is travel software connected with Amadeus GDS system.