Travel Meta Search Engine are complex systems aimed at displaying travel services (flights, hotels, cars) and their offers from multiple online reservation system and OTAs. Customers can actually compare price of a particular services in real time and in a single web window. The instant and real time information about the price and availability especially for flights and hotels allows one to search and book flight tickets and hotel deals right mostly by redirecting the traveler directly to the suppliers website. In short Multiple OTAs can be compared in one go.

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How Meta Search Engine works?

There is a query processor that sends requests and aggregates the results of specific search engines through the wrappers. The wrapper then bridges the meta-search engine API to specific search engines. Each wrapper works with a specific search engine which exposes the external search engine capabilities to the meta-search engine, accepts and responds to search requests. In turn the external search engine responds to the query and get exposed to the meta-search engine through the wrappers.

Travel Meta Search Engine Development

Meta search engine can be looked as a marketing opportunity to showcase your product’s USP. Developing such system is equally difficult as connecting a CRS system to the GDS system. The system even shows flexibility for various suppliers to manage, analyze and optimize the campaign. Today’s meta-search engines are quick and dependable travel technology solutions that allow price assessment and provide instant information on availability of rooms, flights etc.

From an advertiser’s point of view, travel suppliers see metasearch as a more cost-effective and efficient way to drive potential bookers directly to their own websites, and they’re developing strategies to leverage this evolving channel.

About PROVAB TECHNOSOFT – Travel Technology Company

Bringing hotel rates, flight deals etc. from multiple travel websites, OTAs, GDS and other online reservation systems is a real difficult task where a professional travel technology company who has a strong background of integrating single and multiple GDS system and API / XML plus having live certifications are the best option to develop meta search engine .

PROVAB TECHNOSOFT is an award winning travel portal development and mobility solutions company, delivering B2B / B2C travel software, travel CRM, accounting software, car rental software and mobility solutions to global travel & hospitality companies. We work with over forty top travel aggregators, global distribution systems, channel managers and DMCs. With clear focus on technology‚ agile methodology and innovation, we ensure quality deliverables and speedy turnaround to develop and deliver scalable travel portals and booking engines.

Third-Party API Provider for developing Meta Search Engine

Kayak, Priceline, Expedia, TripAdvisor, Trivago provide their API to travel entrepreneurs and startups to start their own travel search engine for flights, hotels, cars, transfers etc. Integrating these API will provide you best search results from large OTAs. One can increase the customer base and pull out large revenue if he concentrates more or social media and other marketing strategies. You can take commissions from the suppliers on per click basis or take commissions only on bookings. Meta search engine can be built around your own central reservation system where the search query can even pull the data from your own inventory.

Why travel portals and online booking software are going for merchant accounts and mcommerce way?

A merchant account is a specific bank account intended to hold funds, received from credit and debit card sales through online payment interfaces on B2C travel software and Travel POS. If you’ve ever used your card and actually wondered where the funds just disappeared to, they went into a merchant account. 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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Do you want to develop your own OTA (Online Travel Agency)? But do not have IATA accreditation for providing flight search and bookings to your customers and sub agents.

It’s true that IATA accreditation greatly simplifies the business relationship between travel agents and airlines and currently some 60,000 IATA travel agents worldwide benefit from IATA accreditation, selling US$220 billion worth of airline tickets on behalf of some 250 IATA airline members. The only drawback is the budget and time involved in getting the accreditation, apparently the profit margins against every bookings are not huge which will give you huge returns until and unless you make sure that you have large number of customers who are looking for flight reservation system form you. Even though most airlines no longer give commission on airfare still integrating API for flight reservation system has become important for travel agents so that they can bundle the air along with the travel package what they offer to their clients. Most of the travelers look for one stop shop to manage all their travel bookings starting from flight bookings, hotel reservations to visa, forex, insurance and everything, that is why enabling flight search and bookings have become important for every Non IATA agents also. Huge commissions are generated when they sell all the travel services to an agent or customer in one go.

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Flight Reservation System for Non IATA agents

 There are different methods through which you can enable flight search and bookings to your travel agency website.

• Meta Search Engine

Develop a Meta search engine where you can integrate multiple XMLs from various providers. End user can compare and then purchase at the portal of lowest provider. Searching for flights or hotels would give you a list of results that source the availability of flights and its fares from various other travel sites like Kayak and show you the best fare on that route. The sites that would be displayed there should be having a licence to operate and source info from the airlines directly. The APIs of Kayak, Trivago, Wego, HotelsCombined etc. are available to develop your own Meta search engine.

• Flight API Integration

You can develop your own flight reservation system in your internet booking engine (IBE) by integrating APIs from different flight suppliers (Non GDS) company like Agoda, Arzoo, TBO, Mystifly(Myfarebox) who does not require IATA accreditation for providing their contents

• White Label Solution

White label refers to a product or service that is purchased by a reseller who rebrands the product or service to give the impression that the new owner created it. White label products are often produced via mass production.

In travel industry white label is provided by companies like Riya, TBO, Booking.com, Expedia, Yatra etc. to increase their sales through travel agents who wants to provide flight search and bookings as an added feature to their customers and increase the branding.

About PROVAB TECHNOSOFT – Flight Booking System Development Company

PROVAB TECHNOSOFT, a leading flight booking software development company, offers to develop online booking software by integrating single or multiple Flight APIs along with GDS system for both IATA and Non IATA agents. It also help launch a travel agency website through white label solution. Flight booking software is the main component for any travel portal development solution by travel technology company. Apart from GDS and Flight API integration one can also provide flight reservation system through white label solution without spending much on building its own reservation system.

How Amadeus, Travelport, Sabre are important for agencies in Turkey, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia?

Success of online booking systems including airline reservation system depends on the type of inventory and pricing. GDS systems like Amadeus, Galileo and Sabre provide singular access to top inventory and thus better deals for end clients.  

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