How to start online travel business

How to start online travel business?

APRIL 10, 2019 KIRAN A

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 favourite 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.

Travelomatix is a next generation travel booking platform for established and startup travel agencies and tour operators.

Following are the key modules of Travelomatix booking engine -

Core Booking Engine / IBE
B2C Module
B2B Module
B2B2C / B2B2B Modules
Secured Admin Console (3 Layered)
Flight Booking
Hotel Booking
Car Rental
Transfer Booking
VISA Module
Sightseeing Module
DTH / Recharge Module
Accounting System (Third Party Integration)
Multiple Payment Gateway Integration
Multiple Suppliers’ Integration APIs
CRS Module for Directly Contracts
Redistribution API / XML Out
Multilingual
Add offline travel bookings / Import PNR
Distribute white labels
Manage multiple branches
BI reports
CDN Installation
Chatbots Integration

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1 Revolutionary travel booking software platform lets you engage B2C users and B2B agencies to make more sales. Top APIs, custom UIs and best in class features bring the edge.

2 Deploy Travelomatix on your existing domain or setup on a new domain. Sell flights, hotels, transfers and other travel deals under your brand.

3 Our cloud-based IBS (internet booking system) is 1/8 the price of a custom travel agency software with equal features. You spend less time managing technology and concentrate on business.

4 Travelomatix is 100% mobile responsive. Your travel ticketing software will look and perform equally well on desktops, tablets and mobile phones with no extra coding or design work.

5 Travelomatix offers payment gateway APIs integration of your choice. Sell online deals on your travel website and receive payments directly into your account.

6 Integrate your online booking software with leading CRM software solutions like Salesforce and ERP suites like NetSuite, Brightpearl and Microsoft Dynamics.

7 Analyze and gain insight into your online booking engine's growth. Integrate additional GDS like Amadeus, Travelport, Sabre and third party hotel & transfer aggregators.

8 Travelomatix IBE is developed with top end travel technology to deliver the highest quality operations. Server, bandwidth and performance are the things that we take care.

How to succeed in online travel business?

Robust booking engine platform

One must have best travel technology partner to setup robust OTA. Find out a company with great infrastructure, a unique product team in core, implementation team for customer interface and must have quicker to go market approach. This will let you focus on other non technology but IMP tasks.

Don't sell deals, sell expertise!!!

Many agents advertise deals on their booking platforms and send promote it. It's tough to beat deals on the Internet, and will be even tougher proceeding further. Upgrade your booking engine and define a clear strategy to sell expert advice and personalized service.

Plan your segment well

In general, global market has two traveler types. 1 - Those with more money than time and 2 - those with more time than money. Target both segments but travelers with more money than time value purchasing a agency's expertise and ability to handle and manage all aspect of the trip.

Engage and sell through social media

We highly recommend social presence for your travel business. Get your customers be fans and to post reviews of your services. Engage them with insights and tips. A facebook page is best used, when it's less about selling and more about engaging.

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