PROVAB TECHNOSOFT sets up APP LAB for top travel technology and mobility solutions

http://www.provab.com - Ticketing system in travel technology means an online booking system to search and book, flights, hotels, transfers, sightseeing and holiday packages. Travel ticketing system supports immediate booking and request management (*which is called queuing up), both the models. Ticketing system also refers to travel software (travel agency software), which are widely used by global travel management companies.

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Travel Technology Company

A ticketing system / travel agent software is online system to store & to retrieve travel related contents. The data may come from the ticketing system’s database or it may come from the GDS Systems – Global Distribution Systems or the third party suppliers. Ticketing system may process the transactions related to flights, accommodations, transfers, cars, cruise and other travel related services. There are three kinds of ticketing systems, which are most widely used today.

• Ticketing System connected to GDS
• Ticketing System connected to Third Party Suppliers
• CRS based Ticketing System

A ticketing system / travel software, while issuing any ticket connects to primary flights / hotels / cars data to find real time availability and pricing. Once the availability is confirmed, users can proceed to make payment to confirm the booking. This whole process is automated and end users get the booking confirmation / PNR or voucher in no-time after making the payment. Below are distinct advantages of travel ticketing system / travel agency software.

• Round o clock availability, improved sales and great client satisfaction.
• Fully automated system, and thus saves alot of time of end users.
• PNR / Vouchers are generated immediately.   
• Comprehensive backend with markup module, currency module, report module and user DB.

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Author is a travel technology expert and has been involved in several travel portal development project.

Hotel Reservation System, Hotel APIs & Native Mobile Apps?

Hotel Reservation System is a multi-lingual, web based online reservation system for travel management companies. This online reservation system comes with B2C (Business to Customers) and B2B (Business to Business) modules to cater end clients and agents as well. The hotel reservation system is compatible with 23 hotel xmls including GTA, Kuoni, Hotelbeds, Tourico, Travco, Special Tours, HotelsPro, Path Finder, Miki Travels, Sun Hotels, Darina Holidays, DOTW, Asian trials and Versys.

Travel Mobile apps

Hotel & hospitality industry has seen robust growth because of travelling goes on higher side. Travel because of business, education and leisure are going all time high. Being ahead in business is the key in any business. Collaborating with a leading hotel software development company is always better so that you use the top hotel reservation system in terms of technology and focus on your core business.

Hotel reservation systems and mobile apps are for customer connect and to be used by regular customers, who are always keen to know more about travel deals. Apart from that, online hotel software and mobile apps are great for keeping brand on the positive side. Recent surveys shows that hotels using the online hotel reservation system & mobiles apps are actually selling better than the other stores, which did not use apps. In the modern business scenario, hotels and hotel consolidators must enter in a long-term partnership with hotel reservation software development companies, to stay ahead of the competition.

Key Features -

• Easy to use B2C/B2B interface
• API / XML integration
• Enhanced user experience for search and booking
• All availabilities, information, bookings and voucher generation are done in real time and client gets the confirmation on booking instantly.
• Online Booking Engine also picks up the best deals from different suppliers on a daily basis and updates the inventories accordingly.
• Multiple currency option for sales across global geographies
• Rapid set up
• Online Payment Gateway, also multiple payment gateways to provide users options to make the payment.
• Best in class rank parity module to display the rates coming from different suppliers for the same property
• Three layers of password protections to define the different levels of access

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How to Become an Independent Travel Agent.

It is good to partner with a host organization if you want to work as an independent travel agent. You should look for organizations that are accredited by IATA.

Online travel agent

Prior to starting the agency, you should learn the processes. Becoming an independent travel agent requires training. You can get it either on-site or online. Your course will teach you to use computerized reservation systems and how to sell vacation packages, among other things. You should also satisfy all the legal requirements to start a travel booking agency, applicable to your state or country.

After completing adequate training, you are ready to officially join the host organization. Participation means to pay upfront fees (which vary considerably from one organization to another) and the establishment of their own website. Users can make reservations and travel deals through your website. You can build your own website with a travel technology company like PROVAB TECHNOSOFT.

Then you can book flight tickets, hotel reservations and vacation packages to customers. You will earn your income primarily from commissions that are paid to you by suppliers (hotels, airlines and other companies). To earn commissions, you should join an organization accredited by IATA. Most airlines prefer to book tickets with organizations accredited by IATA. This will give you credibility and knowledge about the industry.

To find more customers than the people you personally know, market your agency through classified advertising, flyers, Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and word of mouth. This will bring traffic to your site you will grow your business as an independent travel agent. Best of luck.

In short we have listed all the steps :

• Register your agency’s name and take license as per your local laws
• Take membership in IATA or any other reputed travel organization
• Learn about the travel industry thoroughly
• Start and get your travel website development done by a professional company. You can also get a top travel software integrated.
• Give maximum publicity to your new firm.
• Offer the deals, which are focusing to a specific geography. Focusing on niche will bring the accolades quickly.
• Take help of travel portal development company to set up the right web presence for you.

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Airline Software System with Flight APIs Integration, B2C and B2C Modules.

Time is advancing and so is the travel technology. People need faster and better services for their needs, which are near at hand and easily accessible. When it comes to airline reservation, there are so many first time or less frequency users, there are many price sensitive users. In case of more frequent users the booking process should be quick and transparent giving more and more options and control to the user while selecting and booking an airline. To improve the efficiency of the primitive booking system, where there were reservation systems for a particular airline with travel agents subscribed to them, online airline reservation system is introduced, connected with the GDS systems (Global Distributed System) to provide better deals and strong inventories to global users.

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Airline reservation system

Airline Reservation System is an online booking system connected with global GDS systems including Amadeus, Galileo and Sabre, which consolidates the data from all the airlines. The booking engine connected with GDS system provides better inventory and rates to end customers as the number of airlines operating on the same routes will be many. Thus to beat the competition, airlines provide special fares and discounts to be one step ahead.

Airline Reservation Systems have gone through multiple stages of development since these were introduced. From a simple process of booking and flight schedules management, to a complete travel assistant for passengers, taking care of all of their needs from suggesting batter options, booking the travel tickets till the end of their journey.

For a particular airline operating in any specific geography, developing a robust and flexible ARS is fundamental for maintaining a competitive airline. It is a critical factor for deciding the sales and reputation of an airline. An ARS usually contains information regarding airline schedules, fare split ups, previous reservation records for that passenger and future deals and discounts if there.

A global distribution system based airline reservation system connects to several airlines and bring the data of availability and pricing at one common window. It also provides the information to various distributors and travel agencies working simultaneously round the world. Airline reservation systems are dealing B2C, B2B, corporate and white-label modules today.

Leading GDS systems are Amadeus GDS, Travelport GDS, Sabre GDS and Abacus GDS.

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Author is a travel technology expert and has been involved in several travel portal development projects. 

GDS Travel Software with Web Services APIs Integration, Back Office for Agencies Nigeria, Algeria and Kenya

Amadeus GDS and GDS travel software saw a great surge in 2014 and 2015 is expected to be better. The reliance on the GDS systems including Amadeus gds have increased significantly over the years. Travel agencies across the world, are more and more using global distribution systems (GDS). GDS systems are enabled to provide online travel deals and data through a single source. A more traditional way of calling the provider to confirm the booking, was used, which took considerable efforts and time per booking. Today, latest travel technologies from the leading consolidators (aggregators) including Amadeus, Galileo, Sabre and Worldspan have become popular among the travel agencies and services providers. Out of all, Amadeus GDS has emerged as the most preferred by travel agents around the world to make flights, hotels, car rentals, holiday packages, ferry, cruises or other travel services booking. The volume of the ticket bookings through Amadeus system such that all the leading airlines are actually connected with Amadeus GDS system. A growing travel agency must integrate Amadeus gds web services on travel website.

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Amadeus GDS system

Apart from the generic travel contents, Amadeus GDS web services provides availability, pricing, details and online reservation module to travel agencies. Nowadays, travellers prefer a one-stop service, and request rich information to make a right decision. Information from the GDS system helps them to navigate, select and book, what they like. The travel agent has to provide detailed, real-time information to enable the consumer to choose an option that is suited to all his/her needs. Amadeus travel system just makes everything easy.

Amadeus had maintained its position as the global leader in travel technology and travel distribution solutions for tourism industry, by constantly introducing innovations. Set of solutions like e power suites, web services, APIs and other value added services, let client choose – what they like. Amadeus tools are built to deliver the professional travel booking solutions. It helps the agents to deliver comprehensive travel itineraries quickly and efficiently.

For travel technology companies also, Amadeus GDS is a top choice and companies can deliver the custom made solutions to travel agents. With great technical support, that it offers – things can be big for Amadeus. Integrating Amadeus gds web services will definitely take the travel agency to another level, as it can access the huge set of travel contents governed by Amadeus GDS.

Regarding Author:

Author is a travel technology expert and has been involved in several travel portal development projects. 

What is Airline Reservation System & GDS systems / Global Distribution Systems?

In the present date of online sales, where physically existing travel agent shops / kiosks are losing importance and a new trend of bookings through online travel portals & airline reservation systems, is developing very fast. This has created huge opportunity for travel technology companies to build great online reservation systems (airline reservation system, hotel reservation system, & holiday packages reservation system) with top GDS systems / Global Distribution Systems. Apart from cutting edge technology, the user engagement model, displaying the vest pricing and offers are key points for any reservation system to succeed.

Airline reservation system

Airline reservation system, commonly known as ARS, is generally considered to be the user side system for any airline or GDS. It consists of the exchange of data through the GDS system, which consolidates the worldwide airline data and share through unique web services API. This is an effective and efficient way of consolidating the global airlines availability and pricing, which is combined together with best GUI interface and published for end users on any airline reservation system (GDS based).

In online travel services marketing & sales, airline reservation system is a part of comprehensive travel reservation system, which consist-off hotel reservation system, transfer system and sightseeing module. GDS system, which is known as global distribution system is the interface between a travel reservation system and the end airlines, because it consolidates the data including the availability and pricing. The end buyers can check the availability and do the booking, which in turn is forwarded to airlines console through GDS.

Advanced airline reservation systems offer the features like oneway, roundtrip, multi-destinations all together. Thus also providing the end users the better deals / offers on every booking, they do. Most of the reservation systems are also offering the dynamic packages like airline + hotel, hotel + cars, hotels + holidays packages, clubbing the packages together. This helps the buyers to plan the travel in a better way.

Amadeus, Galileo / Travelport, Sabre and Abacus are among the top GDS systems available today. GDS consolidates the data for airlines, hotels, cars, packages and cruises. This consolidated data, is then shared to end travel reservation software / travel portals through their proprietary web services APIs.

Author:

Author is a travel technology expert and has been involved in several travel portal development projects. 

How merchant accounts can increase online travel software sales

A merchant account is a specific kind of bank account intended to hold funds taken from credit and debit card sales through online payment interfaces on travel software and POS. 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.

Online Travel Software

Taking payment individually from those who book flights, hotel rooms, etc, through you travel agency might have become a little difficult because of increased transactions on a day to day basis. Often, smaller travel agents don’t get the merchant accounts directly through the banks so easily. But online travel software definitely needs payment gateways to survive. That’s why third party payment gateways like PayPal, 2CO etc are used worldwide.

With the merchant account, you can entertain all the widely recognized cards and never send back a customer telling her credit card is not accepted by you. Since it works in real-time, merchant accounts reduce deposit times for your company and avoid the prospect of inadequate funds landing you and your customer in uneasy situations. Most of the travel portal development companies suggest their clients to use the direct merchant account for the same reason.

Your new customers should be made your regular customers. Merchant account will help you to make them come back to you to buy travel products in future. This can be done by asking your provider to customize a loyalty program for you. They can get some discounts at the places they spend their vacations or when they next book travel products from you.

A valuable gift from merchant account is online payments. With this visitors to your site can click on the pay button in your website after choosing the flights and hotels, and pay by just filling in their payment data on the secure online form. Immediate validation of payments will occur. You’ll get the money within 24 hours. As a business person this is a great boon to you.

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Author is a senior business analyst and an expert in travel portal development and marketing strategy implementation.

Benefits of Online Hotel Booking System with Hotel APIs (Suppliers)

Online hotel booking system software saw a consistent growth in the last few years, more because of increased usage of internet and huge growth of smartphones and mobile devices. This has created an opportunity for travel management companies to develop and deploy online hotel booking system for end users and B2B agents. The whole process of calling the hotels directly and doing the bookings manually has changed to opening a hotel portal, searching for the best deals and booking it directly to get an instant confirmation. Hotels /motels and resorts are also benefited as they don’t have a-lot of unused inventory to sell at throw away prices.

Hotel Booking System

The Hotel Booking Engine or the online reservation software for hotels is a highly profitable solution for travel agents. Please note that B2C is far more profitable than B2B. Hotel Booking engines provided by prominent travel technology companies like PROVAB TECHNOSOFT provide you many benefits.

The Hotel Reservation Software assists you manage your business effectively. This frontdesk also makes your office staff more efficient. With complete reporting, entire control of walk-ins and telephone sales though the online box office, you can sell hotel rooms online, on Facebook, Twitter and over-the-counter avoiding overbooking.

A good travel software company like PROVAB can include conference/delegate registrations and event ticketing within the online modules. You should opt for a perfect hotel management system and online booking software.

PROVAB TECHNOSOFT offers travel agencies worldwide hotel reservations systems which are openly definable and customizable to cater to their specific business needs. Our capability to add languages to hotel booking engines help the travel agencies to sell hotel rooms across the globe. We can even make bed and breakfast software for you. Customers who visit your travel booking site can click to translate into Dutch, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian and Japanese in addition to the eight languages we presently support. Your customers will receive booking confirmation emails in the language that they chose upon booking. But booking confirmations, cancellations and modifications will be notified to you in the default language.

Being ahead is the game in travel and hospitality industry. Joining hands with a leading travel portal development company to maintain the lead in travel domain, is the key.

Travel portals and mobile apps are for customer retention and to be used by regular customers. Even beyond the experience, online travel portals and mobile apps are great for keeping brand recognition high. Recent surveys shows that travel agencies using the online travel booking system & mobiles apps are actually selling better than the other stores, which did not use apps. In the modern business scenario, travel agencies must enter in a long-term partnership with travel portal development companies, to stay ahead of the competition. There are a few clear and sustainable advantages –

To create customer loyalty by getting smart, innovated online travel portals and mobile apps that bring forth value for the customer.

To facilitate research and purchase of your travel products online

Some reasons for developing a travel portal and mobile app, are the following

• Travelers get high on top travel portals and mobile apps
• Creating online travel portal mobile shopping app is relatively easy with a good travel portal development company
• Many of the retailers already have a mobile app, which are creating a better brand recall
• Along with developing mobile app, you should also get a professional HTML5 development company to optimize your travel website for mobile.

Travel Portal Development

While the penetration of mobile devices, is rising in an incredible manner, a mobile retail application is literally indispensable to your travel company. Mobile travel commerce has come to stay and will grow to gigantic proportions in the coming years. Travel & hospitality companies cannot afford not having a mobile-optimized website and a mobile app of their own.

A professional travel portal development company can help the retailer to gain today’s mobile buyer interest, loyalty and shopping power. Today’s consumers who are infused with the mobile mindset want to access on their mobile devices the shopping list they created online, order products, or see peer reviews. In short, the consumer behavior is fast changing and the retailer has to keep pace with them. With the assistance an expert travel portal developer, you can provide your customer a more personal and fun shopping experience right in his/her phone.

Regarding Author:

Author is a travel technology expert and has been involved in several travel portal development projects. 

PROVAB launches B2B Travel Portal Software for Travel agency in USA, UK AND UAE

PROVAB TECHNOSOFT (provab.com) is a leading travel technology company, providing 

best in class travel software, to clients all over the world, by integrating the GDS systems

and third-party consolidators. We execute both B2C and B2B types of travel portal 

development projects.

Travel Portal Development

Work Flow – B2B Module

• New agents have to complete the online registration process, followed by validation from admin.
• Approved agents will receive their login and passwd over the email.
• Agents will login and will get the access of all the travel deals.
• Agents will place appropriate mark-up and start doing sales for the end clients.
• Agents can do the booking using deposit account or credit note or through payment gateway.
• PNR / Voucher is generated and confirmation email is sent to client at the same time.
• System also gives the option to print ticket same time or can be printed later through my account.
• Agents can login to report modules to check the total sales, profits and other important parameters.

Travel Agency Software is a web-based travel booking system whch has proved to be a 

boon for the travel agencies worldwide. Online travel agency (OTA) is fundamentally the 

travel company, which uses a large chunk of the online processes for bookings.

PROVAB TECHNOSOFT can build a Travel portal for your travel agency with all the following features:

• Online booking of domestic & international tickets for all airlines
• Booking of hotel rooms
• Holiday packages
• Payment gateway integration.
• SMS Gateway integration.
• Powerful back office module.
• Multi-currency and multi-language options
• User Login and management system

To know more about us, please visit http://www.provab.com/. You can call us at 

+91.8880321321 and email us at info@provab.com.

How Hotel API integration is improving B2C, B2B travel agencies and DMCs in Saudi Arabia, Cairo and Dubai?

Booking your hotel through online hotel reservation software is easy. The availability of multiple accommodations for each destination, gives end users enough flexibility to choose a right hotel at right cost. Each accommodation option provides a varied range of pricing, facility, quality and availability, using which end users can select and pick a desired option.

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Hotel APIs

Top hotel consolidators Expedia, GTA Travel, Hotelbeds, DOTW, Agoda, Hotelspro, WCT, Travco, Tourico, Bonotel, Travelocity, Jac Travels, Miki and others have designed and developed APIs for hotel inventory to share the hotel inventory to global travel agent. The web services of hotel APIs not only sharing the availability but also the room types, pricing as well. The main aim associated with the hotel APIs is travel agents, both small and medium-sized travel agents offer their clients the best of the deals at any corner of the globe. Hotel booking systems equipped with Hotel APIs, makes all the information regarding hotel selection available at the finger tip of the customers, and it is also real time information.

API stands for application programming interface. In simple terms hotel API integration provides a legitimate access for one company to get access to the product of the other companies. A travel management company or a travel portal can get access to a huge variety of hotel inventory through hotel APIs integration.

Hotel APIs acts as web service with the option of online functionality for searching and booking of the hotels across the world. Hotel API web service provides a broader spectrum to the online hotel booking services. The travel management companies or the travel agencies get the privilege of providing its users with the option of choosing their accommodation as per their need at a particular destination, thus giving a wider enhancement to the business of the travel agencies.

The benefits of the top hotel APIs for the travel agencies are as follows:

• Business Expansion- Travel APIs provides a wider access of hotels across the world for the customers of the travel agency. With the availability of a wider accommodation option and a user-friendly booking, the travel API integration would help the travel agencies in attracting more customers, increasing the present number of customers and allowing the Travel Company or travel agency to expand the business by venturing new avenues.
• Customer Satisfaction- People approaches the travel portal as they find arranging for the travel to be difficult. The travel agencies website is a one stop shop for all the travel needs with different options to choose form. Travel portal acts as a single platform, enabling the users to search from a varied number of options and booking the most prominent option through the same portal. This makes the process of hotel booking simpler for the users and helps in exceeding customer expectation through providing a varied number of options.
• Cost Saving – The travel agencies could avoid maintaining software, which will save the cost for maintenance and installation. The travel APIs make real time availability for each hotel accommodation and pricing, helping in saving time and operational cost.
• Time saving – The user friendly hotel booking interface makes the process of booking much easier and quicker, thus helping in saving cost.
• Personalized service- The travel API helps the travel agencies to provide personalized service through options like own system, database and websites. The travel agencies can host hotel booking engine with real time information.

Hotel Reservation Software

Features associated with the top hotel APIs are:

• Real time availability and pricing
• Quick booking through simplified search interface
• Vast inventory
• Huge number of suppliers
• Integrated support
• User-friendly search engine

The leading hotel APIs include Expedia, GTA API, Hotelbed XML, Hotelspro XML, Tourico API, DOTW API, Travco API, Tourico XML, Expedia API, WCT API, Bonotel XML and booking.com.

API based hotel reservation system is a hit at the present as it is accompanied with benefits like 24/7 availability, enhanced client satisfaction, automated system, immediate confirmation, time saving and brings improvement in sales.

Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey based Online travel agencies are focussing on responsive travel web design and mobile app initiatives

As reports suggest, more and more travellers, especially the youngsters, tend to book their flights and hotels through their smartphones. In a report published some time back “Tap into mobile: managed travel in the digital economy, an investigation into the impact of mobile in the managed travel space.” It predicts travel bookings through mobile will greatly increase in the next ten years. Travel agencies will use latest mobile technology to deal with their travelers. By 2017, mobile booking will increase to 32%.

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Travel App Development

Benefits of mobile are hassle-free, fast and efficient running of travel business, more productivity and profits and travellers’ wellbeing. Travel agencies want travel technology companies to supply a one-stop-shop app which cater to all their needs as well as of their customers.

Travel portal companies in India who supply mobile websites and customized mobile apps to travel managing companies in different parts of the world like Singapore, Melbourne, Amsterdam, Nairobi, Copenhagen, Dhaka and Brussels. Now they include travel alert features, besides flight status updates and itinerary information. Indian travel software suppliers emphasize on productivity and compliance to laws in respective countries when they design and develop apps and websites for travel agencies in European countries such as Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, France, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany and Britain. When travel companies in Toronto, San Antonio, Playa del Carmen, Honolulu, Niagara Falls, San Juan, Ottawa, Whistler and so on offshore their travel software development to India. Indian mobile software companies, take special care to provide simple and efficient way of doing travel business and productivity.

iPhone and Android devices are almost in every hand and people are browsing the information more than ever. So travel agencies are seeking the services of mobile app development companies to build them a best in class tool. Online travel software offers search and booking facilities of flights, hotels, transfers, sightseeing, cars, cruises and holiday packages. Ticketing systems powers real-time booking of travel deals. Mobile apps use the same web services, which are used by travel software and bring the desired information for the end user.

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Travel Website Design

A travel software is a web based system to store & retrieve travel related contents including flights, hotels, transfers, sightseeing and other services. Mobile apps are connected to the same database and access the web services from the GDS & APIs directly. The data may come from the ticketing system's database or it may come from the Global Distribution Systems, hotel APIs providers or third party suppliers. Ticketing system may process the transactions related to flights, accommodations, transfers, cars, cruise and other travel related services. There are three kinds of travel software systems, which are most widely used today.

1. Travel Software System connected to GDS
2. Travel Software System connected to Third Party Suppliers
3. CRS based Ticketing System

A travel software, while issuing any ticket connects to primary flights / hotels / cars data to find real time availability and pricing. Once the availability is confirmed, users can proceed to make payment to confirm the booking. This whole process is automated and end users get the booking confirmation / PNR or voucher in no-time after making the payment. Amadeus and Galileo software, backed by the GDS systems are some of the top used travel software. Below are distinct advantages of travel ticketing system.

1. Round o clock availability, improved sales and great client satisfaction.
2. Fully automated system, and thus saves a-lot of time of end users.
3. PNR / Vouchers are generated immediately.

Same advantages are extended through the mobile apps, which does not only help in making the booking process easier but also help in brand recall.