How to Start A Travel Agency

People are travelling more and more, for business, leisure and even just for the sake of it. All, for various reasons, don’t always approach the big travel agencies to book their flight tickets and reserve hotel rooms. Many resort to local and independent travel agents whom they can interact directly. PROVAB educates travel agents on how to start a travel agency, starting from registration of company to setting up travel portal.

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Travel business has changed a lot in recent times. The travel agencies no longer just informs the customer about the availability of the flights, their schedule, issue the ticket and get commission from the airline. Now with the online travel agency software, customers can book online. That’s why most of the travel startups are actually following the OTA model.

With these online travel software, new doors leading to profit have been opened for travel agencies. You can turn to customized package tours, holiday packages, cruises, hotel packages, tours for your locale or some specific places, and so on. You can work on your own or for another agency. You can specialize in pilgrimages, leisure travel, business travel or any niche ones. You select your sector and then you can start your own travel agency with your niche offerings.

Focusing on what best you can offer, is the key to success. Best hotels in a specific geography, top sightseeing and transfer tours. You can give them personalized service. This will make the customer take you as a reliable agency and they will feel more secure during their travel. Your customers should feel confident that you will arrange everything possible for them: hire a car, find their favorite cuisine, and so on.

Here are some points in starting a new travel agency :

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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Which are the top travel APIs /suppliers in the travel & hospitality domain?

Travel suppliers are the resources which can offer travel agencies a wide range of flights, hotels and other inventories with both GDS and external connections as well as real-time availability on more than 750+ Airlines & 800,000 hotels. Some of the travel suppliers which provide best in class travel inventory are: Amadeus, Travelport, Sabre, PROVAB Air APIs,Abacus, Travelomatix, Expedia, Travelocity, Mystifly, Travelfusion, TBO, Arzoo etc.

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How to Start Online Travel Agency

Here are some points in starting a new travel agency :