Travel Carma- Global Travel Technology Provider

3 things a small travel business needs to start selling packages online

• Most of the offline Small/Medium businesses in travel are focused on selling vacation packages. Their competition is not just from large OTAs but also from smaller well-funded niche travel portals selling tours and packages.

• Thus going online is not a choice, but a necessity for a traditional travel agency today. Studies have shown that travelers between ages 18-40 prefer to use their smart phones/tablets for their travel booking requirements, rather than a website on a desktop or walking into a retail shop. Therefore, travel agencies that have a mobile booking app, or at least a mobile-optimized website with a booking engine will have a huge advantage to grow their travel business.

Basically Small travel businesses sell their directly contracted hotels and packages, with very few selling air. They essentially need three things to start with :

1. CMS based website which can easily maintain, without any technical knowledge.

2. Booking engine for hotels, activities and possibly transfers.

3. CRS or Inventory Management System, where they can load all their contracted inventory along with rates and business rules

• A CMS Based website is a platform for any travel business to manage easily their website. One can easily add, modify or delete content such as description and images related to hotels. They can also manage meta data including each page title and description, to make their site more search engine friendly.

• A CMS based portal provides full control to the user over their website and decreases cost as well as dependency on webmasters and IT specialists. Moreover, it is multilingual so the user can easily create the content in a language of their choice and thereby target specific regions.

CMS based website for Travel Business

Travel Booking Engine

• A booking engine is usually for a small travel agency or a tour operator business which can help them to manage their online bookings which customer does online. This booking engine also contains the complete details of inventory supplier or Third Party supplier. All it needs is an Inventory Management System or Central Reservation System (CRS).

 

• A CRS- Central Reservation System allows small/big Travel Business to easily install and manage thorough details of all its suppliers along with its pricing.

• It makes it really easy for any travel business to manage its inventory, and it allows its customers and distributors to centrally access and book inventory in real time.

Central Reservation System for Travel Business

TravelCarma- Location

Address: 301, Balleshwar Avenue,

Sarkhej Gandhinagar Highway, Opposite Rajpath Club,

Bodakdev, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380054

Phone: (079) 26872171Email: sales@travelcarma.com

Website: http://www.travelcarma.com

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