8 Key Features to Consider While Choosing Travel Agency Software
Travel business is rapidly growing globally and for entrepreneurs starting travel business can be good opportunity to earn money. Now anyone how wish to start travel business can easily accomplish their goal. He can be independent travel consultant for a Travel Agency, or take a franchise of an established travel agency or start his own travel agency. There are currently many services such as hotel booking, car rentals, airline reservations, tour packages and travel visas you can provide as travel agent. Now days starting online travel agency [OTA], benefits travel agents to increase sales and revenue. With Online travel agency you can sell your travel products worldwide at any time.
To set up online travel agency business travel agents need to develop travel portal and travel agency software. But while developing the OTA and travel management system you need to decide which service and products you are going to offer to your customers. Full-fledged system with advanced features and tools helps you to manage your business and enhance customer service. So, while choosing travel agency software looks for the following important features which help to empower your travel business.
While choosing travel software travel agents should consider these below listed features.
1. Hotel Booking Engine:-
Hotel booking software system allows you to book hotel through your own travel agency system for your customer. This automatic system accepts booking from anywhere at any time. Online payment gateway, booking confirmation alerts via email phones are salient features of this software. Customers can also book hotels of their choice at their destination directly from OTA.
2. Flight Booking Engine:-
Many international and domestic travelers choose flights to visiting their prefer locations and hotels and flights are best selling products in travel industry so having flight booking engine helps travel agents to increase revenue from their business.
3. Multi-Currency and Multilingual:-
System supports multiple currency and multiple languages which is beneficial to target multiple countries. For example if customer from United states opens your website then it serve your site in English and default currency will be USD, similarly if website opens in UK then currency will be GBP.
4. Dynamic Tour Packaging:-
Nowadays customer choose destination, accommodation, tour activity of their choice, so travel agents needs to customize tour package as per customer requirements. Dynamic tour packaging system enables tour operator & customer to create customized tour packages.
5. Responsive Web Portal:-
Many people using smart phones, tablets for booking their reservation having responsive That’ s why having a responsive web portal with engaging user interface will allow the customer to easily search & book their preferred travel products from any device.
6. Multiple Sales Channels:-
Multiple sales channel feature helps travel agents as well as consumers to make their travel reservation. The B2C web portal and Mobile apps allows individual traveller / customer to book their product and to pay through payment gateways. B2B web portal allows your travel agents to make reservation for their clients.
7. Secure Payment Gateways:-
Payment gateway integrated systems such minimize the manual tasks and efforts needed to send receive and payments. That's why many merchants are adopting gateways like PayPal which help both buyers and sellers to send and receive payments instantly and securely.
8. Content Management System:-
Travel agents need to update OTA website content during holiday season, add images, banners and offers to attract customers. Content management system enables to add, modify, and update content of static pages without going through HTML and FTP.
Along with this above listed features there many other important features you should look while choosing travel agency software for your travel business. Accounting, Inventory management, dashboard & reporting tools make reporting tasks easier. You can ask for these tools and features to your travel portal development company help to manage business effectively.
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