Choosing the right travel software development partner for your business is an indeed important decision, which has to be done accurately at the very first time. Your organizational success and the success of the projects being taken up by you will be very much dependent on this decision of yours. The critical points that you will have to keep in mind while selecting travel software development partner have been mentioned below.

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1. 1. Start the search with a detailed plan and deadline- Being more specific about the objective and requirement would be a very positive step when it comes to choosing travel software development partner. When you have the project milestone and completion date handy with you, it will help in providing your travel software development company with a framework of your expectation.
2. Choosing the right company- This is a very vital step. With numerous travel agency website development companies available in the market, choosing the right one and the one who accommodates into your requirement and expectation is very essential. When you have a specific project in mind, you will prefer to have a travel reservation development company for the project with experience in the particular area. You should avoid the mistake of selecting a company with no or very less experience but is providing a cheaper quote may be very harmful form the view point of your organizational growth and success.
3. Start collaboration with small projects- One you are sure about the travel agency software development partner you want to go with, avoid the mistake of starting the collaboration with a big project. Start your partnership with a small project. It would be a good idea as you have never worked with the travel technology company before and the ongoing event of the project will ascertain the kind of relationship that you will have with your partner in the near future. You have also adopt the idea of giving two to three small project to different travel software development partners, with the motive of choosing the one who is the best in terms of cost, quality and performance.
4. Agree to a sensible payment schedule – When you are planning to collaborate with a huge online travel agency (OTA) project with travel technology company, agree to a staged payment schedule in advance. This will become much easier when you have set up clear milestone for different stages of the project development. When you implement a staggered payment schedule, it will help in keeping your travel development partner incentivized and make sure that you are only paying for work that has been completed in comparison to paying a large amount up-front.
5. Keep in mind the on-going support- Depending on the kind of project, there may be problem associated when it is rolled out across your business. Discussing about the cost associated with technical support would not be a recommended action to be taken at the beginning of the business application and also don’t leave it for the last moment as well.

These are some of the points that you should keep in mind while choosing travel portal development company. Spending more time during the planning stage would help in avoiding a lot of problem during the course of the project. Communication has always been the key to any relationship and keeping in regular constant would help in strengthening the professional relationship.

What information does B2C, B2B hotel extranet software store?

The information stored in hotel extranet system includes room types, room rates, room conditions, inventories, plan rate architecture, information regarding reservation, graphical information that includes video and pictures and details hotel information like address, phone, fax number and geographical code information.

Regarding Author:

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

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Recently the retail and fashion ecommerce giant, Myntra announced to shut its website and go for mobile app only (e-commerce app). The retail giant in its mail also said that it plans on creating a more personalized shopping experience for its user by switching to mobile apps. This move has encouraged many entrepreneurs even in travel industry to think of providing more personal experience through different travel technology and hotel technology. The guest experience has become very important for many hoteliers to make sure that the business comes back. Hoteliers and online travel agents are looking more on technological front from travel technological companies to provide them the best mobility solution on travel software and hotel management software.

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Travel App Development Company

About PROVAB TECHNOSOFT – Travel Mobile App Development Company

PROVAB TECHNOSOFT is a leading supplier of cutting-edge travel software and hotel management software to improvise the services and sales of travel agency and the hoteliers. Many travel agents and tour operators around the world, especially in Malaysia, Thailand, UAE, Caribbean, Srilanka, France, Germany, USA, Nicaragua, Cape town etc. have been successfully operating with our customized software. As a hotel reservation system development company we can design and develop an extremely fast and powerful mobile application for various travel software for travel agents and tour operators and online reservation system for hotel management companies.

Travel Software that can be developed in Android and iOS platforms are

• Hotel Booking Engine
• Guest Reservation System
• Trip Planner Software
• Flight Reservation System
• API integration with payment gateway
• Responsive Web Design
• Guest Check-in and Checkout for both flights and hotels
• Car Rental App
• Distribution System
• Restaurant booking or Online Food ordering system

Basically travel apps are mobile app which can be developed for various travel services to provide ease for travelers and give as a value added service. Developing a travel app especially for online booking engine would provide a springboard to accommodate more travel software along with online ticketing system.

Travel App Benefits

The travel app of hotel booking system can also provide service like car rentals, event ticket booking, city tours, online shopping, social gathering, nearby restaurants in city and many more. Thus travel app increases the sales by giving a packaged service to your customer (a one stop shop for all his travel needs). The customer or sub-agents will not browse any other site if he gets all the things in one go. Moreover one time checkout feature just like any other ecommerce website will allow him hassle free shopping for all the travel related services including flights, hotels, car, transfers, insurance, visa, travel accessories, events , tours, vacations , resorts, food and many others in ONE GO.

What is the cost of online booking software for a travel agency, DMC?

If you are associated with the travel industry as a travel company, tourism development organization, resort, travel agency, consolidator or a travel adviser; you may be using travel technology solution that lends you the edge to attract/retain customers and beat competition. To set up OTA software, one needs to have a clear idea regarding the cost involved in developing a travel portal. After-all nothing comes without a cost.  For every dollar that you spend in developing the travel software, you should get 10 fold back as the latest technology driven online travel booking software will drive more customers – means increase in sales & revenue.

Regarding Author:

Author is a travel technology expert and has been involved in several online reservation system and mobile app 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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ATM Dubai 2015

Arabian Travel Market 2015 / ATM 2015 will open on May 4 2015 at 11AM at Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre. ATM is one of the most popular annual travel and tourism events in the gulf and arab region. Online Travel Agents (OTA), hospitality companies, travel technology companies and mobility solution providers visit ATM every year to showcase their products and services. This event generates great business potential within the Middle East for inbound and outbound tourism professionals. With over 2,700 exhibitors, and 23,000 meetings set at the 2015 event, ATM is the region’s premier travel trade forum and exhibition.

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Travel Technology Company – ATM Dubai 2015

About PROVAB TECHNOSOFT – Hotel Reservation System

PROVAB TECHNOSOFT is an award winning travel technology company, delivering hospitality solutions with B2B / B2C travel software, travel CRM, accounting software, car rental software and mobility solutions to global travel & hospitality companies.

We work with 40+ Hotel API providers, 9+GDS consolidators and Flight API providers, 3+ Car and Bus Consolidators, 10+ Transfers API provider, Multiple payment gateway solutions and Travel Insurance Providers. All these APIs and GDS systems when combined together in different combinations provide a robust online reservation system supporting all kind of business model in travel industry. Further to its extension it also incorporates various fancy bookings like spa deals, event tickets, tour operators, city trips.

To manage smooth operations the backend system of any travel portal or online booking system contains strong admin module, vendor management, API or GDS management, accounting software, CRM system, call-centre module, employee module, support ticket management, XML logs, language library, multiple currency control, email management, CMS management, mark-up management an many more.

Key Differentiators:

• Dedicated R&D team for Travel Technology Solutions
• Skilled and Certified Travel Portal Developers for Multiple API / GDS integration
• Structured Database with perfect data-modelling
• Experience in working with 40+ APIs along with GDS
• Customised Accounting and CRM module
• Complete source code and DB handover
• Fully Customised and Tailor-made solution
• Mobility Solutions

Some of the features that will form the highlight of Arabian travel market are as follows:

• Around 400 main strand holders
• Around 2,700 exhibiting companies expected to take part in the meet
• Around 86 countries representing in the exhibition
• Around 23,000 visitors expected to take part in the meet
• The number of pre-registered country at present is 152
• 113 new exhibitors
• Around 70 nationals and regional pavilions

Why hotel APIs are a key part of online hotel booking systems today?

To access wide array of online inventory, online hotel booking system is integrated with one or more Hotel APIs. An API is a set of functions, procedures or methods used by computer programs to request services from the OS, software libraries or any other service providers running on the system. Nowadays, there are various Hotel API providers available in the market like Expedia Hotel API, GTA API, Hotelbeds API, Hotelspro API, Travco API, and many more.

A team from PROVAB TECHNOSOFT will be there at ATM 2015 starting from 4^th May till 8^th May in Dubai, to meet the existing clients and to explore the opportunity to interact with new customers.

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