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.

Regarding Author:

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

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Why online travel agencies offshore their web development?

• Lesser labor costs: Offshoring web development is mainly to save on costs. Labor charges are far less in developing countries like India.
• More knowledge and experience: When offshoring web development and travel API integration, you will be getting nation-wide talent with a wide range of technical experience and capabilities. The main technical capability that a web developer must have is into web services.
• Focus on your core business: Offshoring will enable your travel agency to concentrate on your core business rather than involving with the development team.
• Faster time to launch the website: Professional web development companies in India have a wide talent pool, working around the clock, helping you get your website in lightening speed.
• Find the right offshore web development company who almost matches and works with your time zone and overcome language problem.

Precautions while choosing the right ODC-Offshore development centre for upgrading your travel agency website.

You can ask for references. References will give insight into how the web development company helped their previous clients to implement their online strategies. You should ask for verifiable reference from previous travel agency clients for projects akin to yours. You can enquire to the previous clients on the company’s communication, responsiveness, time taken for delivery, project management, quality of the work, rework required and technical documentation.

Business profile of the offshore company must be verified. Is their business model stable? Are they financially capable and having enough resource to carry out your work successfully? Answers to these questions are of utmost importance. History of the company, realms where the company is expert, etc, must also be checked. You may also check whether the company has all the infrastructure to complete all aspects of your project. They must be well-versed in all the technologies needed to carry out the projects. The offshore company must have developed travel portals and websites for other travel agencies similar to you.

All the more important is to ensure  you own the intellectual property and work deliverables, such as source code, designs, charts and diagrams, built for your project.

You offshore your web project and travel API integration mainly for saving money. Cost of these is related to many factors including complex design, number of modules, amount of content, payment gateway integration, etc. You should come into agreement with the vendor regarding the pricing terms of your project.

PROVAB TECHNOSOFT- The right Travel Technology Partner to integrate multiple API/XML for your travel portal.

Key Differentiators:

• A team of 200+ professionals with diversified background
• More than 10 years of experience in travel technology
• More than 5 years of experience in mobility solutions
• Dedicated RnD team to innovate new features
• Connected with 40+ aggregators, channel managers and distribution system
• Customized accounting mid-office and CRM modules
• Experience in developing Travel Mobile Apps(Android & iOS)
• Complete transfer of source code, DB and schema at project delivery

Integrating your travel API  (Application Programming Interface)

A travel API is a method used by software applications and programs to interact each another and share data, rules, settings or specifications. Travel APIs  help to access the content of flights, hotels, car rentals, buses, cruises, etc,  show their availability and pricing, and facilitate booking, confirmation and cancellation. It provides comparative data from multiple sources in order to offer the best deals to your clients. Travel APIs bring down your operational costs and provide your travel website vast booking opportunities.

Travel API helps you in ticket booking, cancellation, layout, tour and travel. It will also help you to reserve the seat your customer prefers. Travel APIs needed by online travel agencies are the following:

• Flight API / Flight XML
• Hotel API / Hotel XML
• Car API / Car XML
• Rail API / Rail XML
• Bus API / Bus XML
• Cruise API /
• Cruise XML

Travel API integration needs the services of a professional travel technology company. The company you choose must be able to decide the right API which suits your business model requirements. They must be able to carry out technical integration between applications. The offshore company you choose must be experienced in creating and implementing APIs for multiple platforms.

Only a major travel technology company which also has an efficient web design and development wing  can integrate the major Web APIs and mobile API resources related to Travel, including those formatted in XML or JSON and those compatible with iOS and Android.  Such a company can integrate Abacus, Worldspan, Travelport, Galileo, Amadeus, Riya, Ease ticket, and so on to your system.

Why travel booking software is needed to IATA and Non IATA travel agencies?

Corporate travel portal is the perfect online booking and e-travel management tool (with GDS distribution system integration) designed specifically for the corporate travel market. The site combines all ‘live availability’ worldwide scheduled flights and fares including low-cost carriers, as well as live domestic & international hotel and car hire. This model gets the employees where they need to go for business and serves with fully customized corporation’s travel requirements, policies and accounting measures.

Author: Author is an expert in travel technology and online booking system development using web services

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