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B2B Travel Portal is a “business to business” model of online travel portal.At present majority of the travel agencies are getting associated with OTA or are already associated with OTA. These travel agencies have integrated B2B travel portal into their business. As travel agencies have changed the way, users searched and booked the travel deals. Rather than the traditional model of searching the deals, all the leading companies are offering B2C and B2B, both the web interfaces to customers to use it. In this article, we will discuss more about B2B travel software. At present companies are trying to build B2B travel portal with the top hotel suppliers. Some of the important point that has to be taken care of during the course of development of B2B travel portal has been mentioned below.
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To have a unique online travel business, one has to have right mix of different APIs and GDS system to draw the best contents in the travel portal. The travel contents coming from various API should cover the hotel, bus, car and holiday bookings across the globe. Apart from bookings one must also be concern about the variety of customers and their budgets. Based upon the idea where your travel portal must be customer centric, the range of hotel prices, quality of customer service and other add on services definitely matters.
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To achieve all this one must collaborate and integrate with top hotel suppliers which includes GTA, Tourico, Hotel beds, DOTW, Hotelspro, Jacob , Special tours, Travco, Travelport, Boscolo, Jumbo, TravelAsia, HotelsDo, Smilo, WHL, Transhotel, Restel, GoGlobal, World Avenues, Paradoes, Hilton, Barcelo, Bonotel, Astral and many more having worldwide inventory from India, Middleeast , Europe, USA, Far East, Central America, South America etc.
Travel being a global business, the agencies and companies are closely connected. Sharing the inventory across the globe, clearly have sustainable business advantage. Inventory of one agent can be sole by another agent sitting in another country, using these B2B travel portals.
Key Features of online travel portals, are:
• Numerous selling channels: B2B, B2C, XML OUT, B2E, White Label.
• Several inventory sources: In-house contracts and allocations, online
suppliers, hotel extranet and B2S portal.
• Various Payment Options: Credit Limit, Cash, Bank Transfer, Credit
Card
• Hi- Tech Mid and Back-Office Tools: Mark-up Definitions, Agent Commission and Cancellation Policy.
• Many Language and Currencies option.
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Key Benefits of Hotel Booking 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.
For best B2B travel portals, inventories are also needed from the top hotel suppliers, which are as following:
Virtual reality adds value to travel technology and global tourism industry.
Virtual reality (VR) is providing an entirely new experience to the travelers. With the help of VR headsets, people indulge in the travel experience offered by 360-degree video, sensory elements and panoramic photos. This helps travelers to make wise decisions regarding holiday packages, airline reservations, car hire or bus ticket booking on various OTA travel portals. This is why travel technology companies are using VR as a component in upcoming OTA portals.
Regarding Author:
Author is a senior business analyst and an expert in travel software development and marketing strategy implementation.
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