Monday, 19 September 2016

Airline Reservation System – Global Distribution System Web Services APIs / XMLs

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.
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 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.
Regarding Author:

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

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. 

Essentials for Travel Agency System Software

Despite the economic recession, people travel more than ever. Regarding booking their flights and hotels, now they often use their PCs or smart-phones. Or they come to your office and you help them to book the best choices with the help of your office computer. So you need a travel agency system.

Travel agency software

Travel agency software systems are used across the globe and most important part of OTA business model. In travel business, the processes are customized based on every business type/ offerings / transactions. Following are some of the important points -

Managing the large number of bookings

The main objective of a travel business operator to buy a travel agency software is to manage the reservations efficiently and rapidly. With a good system, you can track bookings end to end without any flaws. Software for travel agent must provide an integrated system of real-time reservation software, booking systems, web publication, accounting and administration. It should be ultimately flexible and can be easily made to deal production of complex packages, dynamic packaging using clients' own resources in combination with GDS, hotel and car rental systems etc.

Multiple Sales Channels

With multiple sales channel feature, one can use travel agency system as a common platform for you as well as your customers to book travel products and services online. The internet booking engine will enable you to manage the bookings by your customers as well as your subagents. Consumer site will allow your customers to book and to pay through payment gateways. Agency site or B2B will allow your subagents to make bookings while you can track commissions and agents’ accounts.

Hotel Booking System

With the hotel booking software system, one can take direct bookings through your own travel agency system. This is automatic and without any human intervention, your firm can take bookings 24/7. Higher conversion rate, detailed report, instant confirmation and sending of confirmation to customer’s phone and email are other salient features.

Airline booking software

Our flight booking engine will maximize your online flight ticket sales. It is integrated with all the major GDSs. It is a fully customizable software too so that it can cater to all your specific business requirements.

Mobile apps are now going hand in hand with leading travel software. This is again a criteria of making a right choice.

Regarding Author:


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

Saturday, 17 September 2016

How to Choose Top Travel Portal Development Company India

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 Agency Software
Work Flow – B2C Mobule
  • Customers visit the travel portal company home page.
  • They select particulars (flight / hotel / car / packages).
  • System connects to GDS / APIs and bring back the inventory details with availability and pricing.
  • The customer selects appropriate deal.
  • Customer proceed to next screen to provide his details / travellers details.
  • System takes him to payment gateway to process the payment.
  • 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.
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.
Hiring the right travel technology company is a key.
  • Total experience
  • Global client base
  • GDS / APIs connected with live certification.
  • Payment Gateways
  • Are they well-versed in B2C, B2B and Corporate modules.

To know more about us, please visit provab.com. You can call us at +91.8880321321 and email us at info@provab.com

Online Travel Reservation System Development for agencies in Canada, Argentina and Chile

PROVAB TECHNOSOFT (provab.com) is a specialized travel technology provider, which has been providing powerful, easy-to-use travel software to travel agencies in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, by integrating the GDS systems and third-party consolidators. We handle both B2C and B2B travel portal development projects.
Online Travel Reservation System
For the past 11 years, we’ve been providing travel portals to travel agencies in Riyadh and other cities in Saudi Arabia, such as Jedda, Al-Ahsa, Ta’if, Dammam, Khamis, Buraidah and Khobar. Due to this unmatched experience, we are aware of all the unique needs of the Saudi travel industry. We give importance to all the favorite destinations of Saudi nationals. As per statistics, Saudi citizens spend a whopping 40 billion Riyals a year for their international travels.
Apart from usual features for airline reservations, hotel bookings, domestic & international tours, cruise reservations and car rentals, our softwares also comprise modules for Hajj and Umrah services, inbound and outbound travel packages, arranging approved tourist guides at destinations, etc. Expatriate employees in Saudi Arabia can also book budget airlines for through the travel portals we supply you.
Please click below to know more about travel portal development / travel website development:
For travel agencies in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, we include medical tourism products too in the travel portals for them. Natives can book hospital rooms, consultation, surgeries, etc with the travel software. With travel software from PROVAB TECHNOSOFT, travel agencies in Saudi Arabia can also provide all booking facilities to students going abroad.
We have also developed travel software for travel agencies in other countries in the Gulf region.

To know more about us, please visit http://www.provab.com. You can call us at +91.8880321321 or email us at info@provab.com

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.

Saturday, 10 September 2016

Why is it said that B2B, B2C and Corporate Travel Agencies should have online travel distribution systems?

Have you ever thought about the benefits associated with buying online booking B2B software or a travel distribution platform? What are the benefits that you and your partner will be able to fetch from the online booking B2B software? Have you ever thought about the functionalities of travel software or what is travel distribution platform? This write-up is an answer to all the questions that arise in your mind in regards to the online booking B2B software and the benefits associated with it.
Online Travel Distribution Platform
B2B travel software is the system that allows partners or travel agents to book items from the system that is used by the travel agency or tour operator. B2B online booking system helps the partners to have a look at all the products and documents directly along with enabling them to make reservation from the system.
It is very essential to know the reasons for online booking B2B software being one of the best and the benefits for the same have been mentioned below.
Travel partners provided with the information required for purchasing - One of the biggest advantages is making your entry into the travel services system visible to the travel agents. The look of the travel agent system will be absolutely similar to yours. The only difference would be that you as an administrator with have more options. The next question could be the features that the travel agents would be able to view in the system.
Services - The services that are a part of the system is gathered and centralized and the travel agents will be able to find them during the course of making reservation. Along with the list f the services, the travel agents will also be able to view the description (service image, service info), selling price, the location, suppliers for the services and the number of units available. These are the information required for creating a new reservation.
Pricing and Availability - Along with the service list, your travel partner also has access to the pricing and price list for each and every service and the features that forms a part of the service. The pricelist viewable to your partner includes the price of the basic service along with the price of the additional services, supplements, reduction and discounts. After a service is made available through addition of allotment, enabling the partner to book the service directly and enter the payment for it. In case there is no addition of allotment, the partner can click on “Send Enquiry” option. In case you as an administrator disable booking for specific dates, partners will not be able to make any booking during the particular period.
Promotion Special Offers - The promotion could be viewed on the B2B login side as well. You also have the facility of entering the special offers in the system, enabling your travel partners to use them. This helps in generating demand and increasing sales.
Different pricing level for the market or partners - In case you prefer to have different pricing level for different partners, it could be defined in the back office by using the option different market. For example, if you are targeting three different markets like European market, Asian market and American market, you have the facility of adjusting the prices by the addition of different commission to the market. Each partner will be able to get the price depending on the market they are assigned to. This will enable the travel agents to get the price predefined for them. This acts as a great marketing tool when it comes to assisting, increasing and rewarding partner sales.
Online Reservation System
Entering Reservation and Reservation Management - The travel interface is designed to enable the travel partner make a reservation directly, when they have availability to information like product, price, and information about special price, promotion, services, availability and similar information. The overview of all the reservations accomplished by the system is also available. This means that the system will allow the administration and the travel partner to track the reservation and manage them effectively.
Making all the Documents available - The system will provide the travel partners with all the documents, enabling them to make the same available for the customers. There is a very well support system for the mutual communication between the tour operator and tourist agency and its partners. When a partner makes a reservation, the document provided is dependent on the action taken by them. When a request is sent and offer and itinerary follows automatically. When a booking is accomplished, there is an automated process of sending the invoice. This process could be customized depending on the need of the travel agencies requirement. Along will this the partners will get an overview of all the documents created and are connected to the reservation system, which could be forwarded to be printed for the customers. This is one of the key features of travel distribution platform.
Online booking B2B enhances the communication process - This is a benefit that both the sides can enjoy. One partner checks with the suppliers, makes a confirmation for the reservation and send documents while the other one is sending new reservations. This process eliminates the need of communicating over the phone and saves time and money. This is also a way of attracting customers, finding new customers, creating new marketing campaigns and making better sales.

Providing better control over the whole process - This means everything is under the same roof. Partners get an overview of the reservations and the documents that they have made. The whole process is centralized, eliminating the risk of making possible mistakes. Travel distribution platform has become a backbone of travel agencies, who are using online travel portals