Travel suppliers have been an eminent part of the travel industry and have been responsible for providing opportunity to many IATA and non IATA travel agencies to build a hotel booking system exclusive to them, in-spite of having no knowledge about the travel industry and its operation. By the term travel suppliers we designate the group of suppliers from hotel, car, bus, tours, transfers, cruise, payment gateways and insurance industries. These travel suppliers gets access to the system in API format and integrate through the web services.

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Travel Suppliers for Hotel Booking System

Certain travel agencies have their own travel suppliers and this help them to grow their business with the help of B2B and B2C travel portals. Accessing a huge worldwide inventory is what the travel agents get in return. Integrating the worldwide inventory of travel suppliers to a single point of integration is what we define as the Global distribution system (GDS). With the help of the API and XML of the various travel suppliers, integration of the hotel booking system with the global distribution system becomes quite easier.

Along with this the online hotel booking system also gets access to the next generation travel technology implemented by the global distributors. The hotel booking processes have undergone a sea of transformation through the hotel APIs that forms a part of the hotel travel suppliers. The hotel APIs have provided the hotel booking system with a new dimension n terms of look and sophistication. The traditional hotel booking system has been replaced with an advanced technological astute online hotel booking engine. There has been an enhanced level of efforts, operation, efficiency and customer service that has helped in providing hotel booking system with a new look.

Hotel suppliers also known as the hotel consolidators are the new travel management companies providing large inventories of hotel contents. The hotel database is provided in the form of API or XML format to the different hotel booking agents, hotel booking startups and even in some cases to the OTAs spread across the globe.

About PROVAB TECHNOSOFT – Hotel Software Development Company

PROVAB TECHNOSOFT is a leading hotel booking system development company helping travel startups and entrepreneurs to integrate with different travel suppliers and API providers. PROVAB can successfully integrate hotel suppliers, bus suppliers, car suppliers, flight suppliers, transfers suppliers to your online reservation system or CRS system. Integrating various suppliers will give your customers access to all kind of travel services in one go from one single point web booking engine. The B2B model allows even travel agents (subagents) to book from a privileged account and get the commissions on every bookings. Further the booking engine can be worked for various business model like B2C, B2B2B etc. and a strong backend CMS system to manage all the API or XML content coming from different API of travel suppliers.

The hotel contents that forms a part of the hotel booking engine includes features like rates, offers, room availability, add-on features, videos, images, facilities and many more features to attract the end-users and provide them with more information. The inventories that are part of the hotel suppliers are associated with a single hotel booking system which enables the customers to book hotels from their websites directly. The B2B interface that forms a part of the hotel booking engines through the travel (hotel) suppliers allows the sub-agents to get access to the online booking system which is aimed at increasing the number of sales or the number of booking through the online hotel booking system.

The hotel suppliers are associated with the travel agents and tour operators located in the major cities and destination across the globe, which leads to a smooth process of distributing the properties or the hotel inventories. The buying power of the hotel suppliers enable them to provide relevant discount which the end-user is not able to achieve when he or she deals with the hotel directly. The process is very simple, hotel offer greater discounts to the hotel suppliers owing to the fact that they are liable to get a larger number of reservations through them. Providing discounted room through the online hotel reservation system leads to a greater number of reservations.

To reach out to more and more number of customers, the travel agencies have associated themselves to the hotel XML suppliers and the tour operators located at specific location, which are the major holiday destinations. Concentrating at the tourist destinations and big cities or popular resorts at the specific destination are some of the ways in which the hotel suppliers increase their sale and consequently make the hotel booking system more competitive.

Virtual reality adds value to travel technology and global tourism industry.

Virtual reality (VR) is providing an entirely new experience to the travelers. With the help of VR headsets, people indulge in the travel experience offered by 360-degree video, sensory elements and panoramic photos. This helps travelers to make wise decisions regarding holiday packages, airline reservations, car hire or bus ticket booking on various OTA travel portals. This is why travel technology companies are using VR as a component in upcoming OTA portals.

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Author is a travel technology expert and has been involved in several online reservation system development projects.

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The travel and tourism industry is one of the world’s largest industries with a global economic contribution from all the travel related services whether it is from tourism or ca rentals or transfers or hospitality or meetings or events, the contribution is almost trillions of U.S. dollars in recent years. Travel Suppliers are playing a major role in the growth of online travel agency. The direct economic impact of the industry, including accommodation, transportation, entertainment and attractions, was approximately 2.2 trillion U.S. dollars that year. A number of countries from Europe and USA, are consistently popular tourism destinations, but other, less well-known countries such as Dubai, Malaysia, South America are also quickly emerging in order to reap the economic benefits of the industry.

Travel Services are easily available now through various travel suppliers. Travel consolidators have now realized that the distribution of their data / content is very important not only to increase sales and revenue but also for a global exposure through various channels, websites, agents, call-centres and merging with GDS system. And packaging itself with other travel services. For example a car rental agency will have more sales and customers if it merges with any hotel reservation system or GDS system or with Flight bookings. A traveler might want to book hotel and car during a trip to have a seamless and smooth travel experience. Most of the customer wants a one stop shop web based reservation system for all kind of travel services like flights, hotels, transfers, cars, bus or vacations.

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Major Travel Suppliers that are generally integrated in a travel portal:

Travel suppliers have provided opportunity to many IATA and NON IATA travel agents to build their own hotel booking system without any knowledge on travel industry. Travel suppliers includes a set of suppliers from hotel, car, bus, tours, transfers, cruise, payment gateway and insurance industry accessed in API format and integrated through web services.

• Flight Suppliers – GDS systems like Amadeus, Travelport / Galileo, Sabre, Abacus, Travelsky, Infini, Axess, Topas, Mystifly(Myfarebox), TBO, Riya, Multicom
• Hotel Suppliers – GTA Travel, Hotelbeds, Tourico, Travco, Special Tours, HotelsPro, TransHotels, Miki Travels, Sun Hotels, Darina Holidays, DOTW, Asian trials, Versys, Expedia & many more
• Suppliers for Transfers – GTA & Hotelbeds
• Car Suppliers – Car Trawler, A2B
• Bus Suppliers – TicketGoose and Redbus
• Cruise Suppliers – MSC, Princess and Carnival

Dynamic Packaging during the development of travel portal helps in leveraging all the travel services. Different travel services when combined together in a package helps travel agents to sell all the services plus provide high level customer satisfaction and service.

How B2B internet booking systems are helping travel companies grow?

A computer reservation system, CRS as its known, is web based travel agency software. It provides travel agencies / travel management companies a 24/7 interface to its customers to search and book the flights, hotels, transfers, sightseeing, holiday packages. Travel reservation system supports B2C – end user module, B2B – agent module, B2B2B – sub agents and while-label. For flight inventory, it interfaces with GDS systems like Amadeus, Galileo / Travelport and Sabre, for hotel inventory / hotelextranet, it interfaces to GTA, Hotelbeds, Hotelspro, Travco, Tourico, DOTW, Bonotel, WCT and others. CRS – computer reservation system connects to all the providers through web services XML/API and bring the data of availability and pricing in run time. Users can search for flights, hotels, cars and packages in runtime, select & make the payment and get the confirmation voucher at the same time.

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Author is a travel technology expert and has been involved in several online reservation system development projects.

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