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Monday, 12 December 2016

Hire Hotel Booking System Development Companies in India

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.
Hotel Reservation System

There are a few clear and sustainable advantages of hotel reservation systems -
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 hotel software and mobile app, are the following
Travellers get high on top hotel portals and mobile apps
Creating online hotel 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
While the penetration of mobile devices, is rising in an incredible manner, a mobile retail application is literally indispensable to your hotel as well. Mobile hotel 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 hotel software 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. With online hotel reservation systems, end users are benefitted in having great deals across the globe.
Key Benefits of Hotel Reservation Systems:
• Exclusive emphasis on web-based automated software, no hardware is needed.
• High flexibility – ascendable and robust platform.
• Reasonable price package – pay as you use with SaaS model.
 • Rapid to launch, easy to use – spontaneous user interface and comprehensive modules.

Thursday, 8 December 2016

GDS Travel Software with Web Services APIs Integration.

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.
APIs Integration
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. 

Tuesday, 6 December 2016

OTA Travel Software and B2B B2C Travel Portal Development for travel agencies in Saudi Arabia, Iran and Dubai (UAE)

Global Distribution System / GDS System is computerized and centralized web service that provide travel related transactions covering airline reservation, hotel reservation, cruise reservation and car rentals. In brief, central reservation systems that book and process the PNR for global airlines are known as Global Distribution Systems / GDS Systems.
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Travel Portal Development
Originally, GDS systems were set up for airline reservations but later its extended to process hotels, cars, cruise and holiday packages. GDS system makes it convenient for users to purchase tickets from different airlines or providers thereby forming the backbone of internet based travel booking services. GDS system reaches out to more than 300,000 plus IATA registered travel agents powered by four major GDS networks like Sabre, Amadeus, Worldspan and Galileo. Thus the GDS systems today, are used by travel agents and online customers all over the world to book flights, hotels, rentals and other travel related services. The key point here is that any GDS system will not hold the inventory, but the inventory is held on vendor’s reservation system itself as GDS has real-time access to the vendor’s database.
GDS can also be understood as a network operated by a company that enables automated transactions between booking agents and vendors so as to provide travel related services to end consumers. A GDS system usually links rates, services, bookings consolidating products and services across the major travel sectors like hotel reservations, car rentals, airline reservations and other activities.
GDS system’s primary customers are mainly travel agents, who are either following OTA model or using a web based software to connect to GDS.
To understand, how global distribution system works, take for example the case of Amadeus GDS. Amadeus is used globally by over 90,000 travel agency locations and over 32,000 airline sales offices for distribution and selling of travel services. This service processes more than 480 million transactions per day, which is huge and over 3 million total bookings per day. GDS along with Online Distribution Data or ODD in the form of connectivity modules allow hotels to connect with Travel agents and online customers.
GDS are owned and operated as joint ventures by major airlines, hotel groups, companies and car rentals. Sometimes they are also called as automated reservation system or ARS or computerized reservation system or CRS.
Modern GDS system typically allow users to take advantage of booking hotel rooms, rental cars, airline tickets, as well as for other activities like outdoor tours. They also provide access to railway and bus reservations in some segments of markets, although these are not always integrated with the main system.
For many years, GDS had a dominating position and role in the travel sector. To avoid high GDS fees airlines have started to distribute flights directly from their websites through web services or APIs, thus bypassing GDS to a large extent, another way of bypassing is by facilitating direct connections to the travel agencies.
Author:
Author is a travel technology expert and has been involved in several travel portal development projects. 

Thursday, 1 December 2016

Travel Technology, making travel easier and happening.

Travel technology has come a long way over the last decade. Traditional methods of travel planning and booking are almost vanished in thin air. Today, travelers use technology to great extent to plan the travel, book the travel deals there by making travel process easier.

Young travelers are the generation born towards the end of the last millennium and grew in the arena of wireless internet, smart-phones, considered as gen Y. The ratio of this generation using the travel technology is high, when compared to people with 40+ age. With smartphone and mobile internet in hand, travelers are searching all the travel deals on the responsive travel websites and mobile compatible travel software. Survey shows that major part of online travel booking now comes through hand held devices.

Travel technology 

Travel technology has evolved, not only as online booking and itinerary processing system, but it has become a way to plan the whole travel starting from flight booking, hotel booking, car booking, reminder for important documents, creating a common travel group and sharing the images / videos. The whole travel process and post travel activities are now all connected through the travel technology.

Travelers are checking the travel websites for everything, it may be weather, fight / train / bus timing update or any value added information. Mobile has become a tool for checking and sharing on the go. The mobile phone with the travel mobile app, has become an online travel agency. Searching, booking, sharing – everything is available right at finger tips.

Travel technology companies have taken a great part in this growth story. These companies have developed some great travel products in last few years. Travel website development and travel apps are much in demand. All the leading travel agencies are partnering with top travel technology company to deliver a product, which can actually create a wave in travel domain. Next two years, it will be interesting to see as to how the travel domain grows.

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

Thursday, 29 September 2016

Online Booking System for Hotels : Hotel APIs – Hotelbeds, Hotelspro, DOTW and Travco

Much has changed in travel technology over a decade. Traditional way of search and booking the travel deals are no more in fashion. Online booking system has become the keyword of travel domain across the globe. At present, online booking systems are most widely used for used for airline reservations, hotel & motel reservation, cab reservations and custom holiday packages. More and more booking systems are also connecting the event booking XMLs as well. In a nutshell, online booking system is internet based booking system software, which can be accessed by users through the unique URL, services can be searched and bookings could do done.
online booking system

There are many web services / hotel APIs, which can be seamlessly integrated to bring the best inventory at best price.
Hotel APIs
  • GTA
  • Hotelbeds
  • Hotelspro
  • DOTW
  • Travco
  • Tourico
  • Restel
  • Miki
  • Jac Travel
  • Expedia
  • Priceline
  • Bonotel

GDS

  • Amadeus
  • Galileo
  • Sabre
A GDS system will also provide the data for hotels, cars and cruise apart from flights. It also provides the information to various distributors and travel agencies working simultaneously round the world.
Regarding Author:

Author is a travel technology expert and has been involved in several online booking systems. 

Saturday, 17 September 2016

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.

Friday, 2 September 2016

Having Travel booking System and Agency Software, Ways to Boost Bookings on User and Agents Channel

Being into the travel business, you might be thinking of innovative strategies to enhance your business growth and provide maximum exposure to your organization. As a tour operator and travel agency, a significant amount of your resource, which could be concluded in the form of time and money, is invested towards the sole purpose of advertising. This is a very well planned strategy as growing your business and bringing in enhancement in the revenue is not possible without a well-architect and well-implemented marketing strategy.
Online travel software
Advertising has always been given an eminent position, be it at present day business or the organizations that had conducted business in the past or the one who will be doing so in the future. It is the well planned advertisement of the products that has helped in their introduction to us and we in turn purchasing them as a consumer. Advertisement has acted as the backbone of every industry, be it the most famous brand of car BMW, be it the fashion brand Allen Solly or one of the famous brands in the hospitality industry “The Marriott group of hotels”.
One of the eminent changes that we have experienced to be a part of the advertisement industry is the impact of social media and the impact that they has on transforming the whole idea of advertising. The present time advertisement provides more emphasis on customer engagement and building the very important element of “TRUST” among the customer. Building trust among the customer has been never being such an eminent part of advertisement as it is now. Success of online travel software totally depends on that.
There has been a sudden shift in what we call as focus of advertisement. At present the focus of every advertisement strategy that we formulate is based on building brand loyalty rather than building a brand image, which has been the sole focus of the process earlier. The task of building brand loyalty is much more challenging and failure to conduct a healthy dialogue with the customer may lead to loosing the business. This is the main reason behind majority of the companies at present outsourcing their advertisement segment to specialized social media marketing agencies.
Will it surprise you, if we say that there is a way to achieve the above mentioned goal of advertisement that is much easier, cheaper and at the same time consumes less time. This is a process that requires minimal effort on your part and if executed accurately has the capability of enhancing your online booking sale. PROVAB TECHNOSOFT has come up with a new idea called “Customer Review Module for Travel Software”. This is nothing but the travel product review, displayed on the travel portal or the travel agency web-page. By implementing this method of advertisement using the social media, we are not asking you to abandon the other strategies that you had been using for advertising your product. Customer review is a more conventional form of advertising, that has been often overlooked and under-rated when it comes to a way of generating social buzz for your travel business.
Boost Online Bookings
“What will happen if you allow your customers to post reviews about your travel business”? have this question ever invaded your mind. It is about letting your customer share their experience with your travel system and rate your service in an open manner. This is a way to let your customer know that their experience and satisfaction matters to you. It is about letting your customers and prospective customers know that you have architect your travel business to provide them with the best service and is in the process of constantly improving the service through customer feedback.


Benefits Associated with the Process


Increased Credibility
When customers get the opportunity to read the reviews about your service, it acts in a positive manner for your credibility. Your travel product takes the form of real people story from just being a collection of photographs, description and numbers. It is the real time experience that you customers have, described in their own words.
A Boost for your Online Booking Sale
As per the survey conducted on including Customer Review as a part of advertisement strategy, it has been revealed that there has been a dramatic increase in the online sales. One more aspect that was revealed is the implementation of this strategy by majority of the renowned online retailer. There is a science that could be related to the strategy and if you have not thought about it, then please think as this could be literally termed as free money.
Collateral Advertisement
Collateral advertisement is a real term that is present in the advertisement world. Here I am using the term with a little twist. The great part about customer review is generation of advertisement without focusing on your effort put forward towards the element of advertisement. This provides you with the opportunity to focus on the business aspect that is really required, which according to me is excellent service. Providing excellent service which in turn becomes the reason for generating positive customer review which is away to take your business towards the path of growth.
We would also like to mention that our travel technology product is not only about support our client's operational requirement, but in a way is the process for simplifying the customer engagement and feedback process. We are the provider of top-notch customer review service which provides you with the option of choosing between simple yet powerful and customized premade widgets to custom made solutions with the implementation of powerful APIs.