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Online Travel Portal & Booking Engine Development Solution

18 Feb 2021

With the whole move towards “experiential travel,” the explorers of today demand more from tour & travel companies. They require higher flexibility, customized options with an experience to remember. While continuous innovation is the name of the game, travel companies must keep improving their IT infrastructure with next-generation travel portal solutions to stay competitive. A mix of intuitive features for both B2B and B2C verticals can target a diverse audience.

Besides, the pandemic has changed the way people travel today. And companies that adapt to these rapidly evolving developments will be able to survive in these new normal. By adopting newer technologies, they can offer innovative solutions that help them stay ahead of the curve. An experienced software company can provide a seamless combination of the latest tech & travel domain knowledge to help you evolve with time.

Rishabh Software offers custom travel portal development services as per your business requirements. Be it for the B2B/B2C travel agency, travel aggregator, or any other travel management company, our tailored solutions cater to their business needs.

Benefits of a Custom Travel Portal for Agencies and Travel Service Providers

The travel industry is transforming. It is vital that you adopt the latest technologies to compete in a global market. An online travel portal will provide you with opportunities that are aligned with your business growth plans. Companies are left with no option but to evolve owing to rapid consumer demands & unforeseen circumstances like the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Single point of access to consolidate travel inventory and prices
  • Reduces the overall execution time with real-time availability of inventory, rates, availability and details
  • Minimize order processing costs
  • Helps minimize the maintenance cost

End to End Travel Portal Development for a Transparent and Secure Booking Process

We help travel businesses with technical solutions to streamline their processes and meet the next-gen customer demands. As a proficient travel portal development company, we build the right-fit web & mobile applications. Our cost-effective and reliable solutions can help businesses of every size efficiently manage globetrotters’ travel needs from start to finish. Through this time-saving solution, you can handle everything from documentation, bookings, payment and returns.

Here are the essential segments that a travel portal solution caters. The integration of XML, GDS, API for flight booking portals, hotel booking engines, travel agents, and bus portals helps offer secure and smoother travel processes. It can help track inventory, availability, pricing and more.

Hotel Booking
Developed with globally recognized apps that offer real-time room availability, price per night and hotel inventory. Helps both (B2B & B2C) customers to book rooms online.

Flight Booking
Provides real-time information on pricing, availability & airline inventory.

Cruise Booking
Offers trip booking options across global destinations for B2C users & B2B agents.

Bus/Car/Train Booking
Offers urban commute options availability across cities as per the user’s geo search preferences.

Travel Agent/Tour Operator Software
Helps professionals save time, amaze clients by creating beautiful client itineraries or proposals.

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Essential Components of Travel Portal

As part of our B2B and B2C travel portal app development services scope, we showcase all the essential booking engines, associated panels, and modules.

Super Admin Panel

Travel Portal Admin Panel Module

The easy-to-use admin panel allows easy management of the online booking engine.

Core Module:

User Management: It implies the possibility to track & manage user profiles, company & branch details, contact information, preferred payment methods, and more. Further, role mapping allows users to access specific sections of the web portal.

Booking Management: You can track active reservations, define booking rules, upload reservation forms, issue e-tickets, track registration history, and perform other booking-related tasks through this module.

Payment & Commission Management: You can monitor the credit/cash of sub-agencies, suppliers, and more. Also, you can set commission rates for agents and operators, make payments, and generate invoices. We also integrate leading payment gateways like ApplePay, PayPal and more for safe & hassle-free bookings.

Travel API Integration: GDS/third party API integration includes dynamic pricing engines, travel packages, mobile ticketing, price comparison tools, transfers management, insurance options & more.

Package/Tour Management: It helps create and manage tour plans, modify package categories, upcoming tour dates, set destinations, booking options, pricing type, and more. The easy-to-use drop-down lists and other features to change package category, style, and more.

Reporting: Our comprehensive reporting module allows you to generate and download custom reports in a spreadsheet format. It includes booking description, profit & revenue amount, agent commissions, cancellations, and more.

Settings: Here, you can customize the theme, arrange content, set notifications, activate/deactivate users, approve/modify/delete reviews, and manage all the other on-demand features as per your business needs.

B2B Booking Engine

Travel Portal B2B Booking Engine Module

Our B2B travel portal development service helps you manage the travel business effectively. Besides, it provides direct access to corporate clients and distributors to your web-based booking system.

Core Module:

Registration & Login: Agents, travel agencies, tour operators can register/login through this module. Verified accounts get real-time access to your services & products such as cars, flights, hotels, and more.

Partner Management: It provides complete control over managing new affiliates and agencies and tracking various business operations. You can activate/deactivate agents from the backend and restrict their actions on the portal according to your business needs.

Booking & Offers: Here, you can create custom travel packages, cross-selling products or services, and other discount offers. Agents can book specific holiday packages, buy & transfer bulk tickets, and choose accommodation options.

Documentation & Booking management: It enables the travel partners to upload & store documents related to various booking-related services and make them available for their customers. Also, it is possible to print/modify/cancel the reservations from the portal directly.

Cash Flow Management & CRM: Registrants can manage cash flow and create vouchers & invoices. Besides, you can set the minimum monthly costs and enable flexible online payments. CRM integration allows streamlining the process flows and improves conversions.

B2C Booking Engine

Travel Portal B2C Booking Engine Module

A B2C travel portal enables easy, secure booking from any browser and device. While it targets your end customers through self-service tools, you can manage various features and functionality using the backend.

Core Module:

Registration/Guest Login: Travelers can enroll themselves on the multilingual travel portal and avail your membership offers. They can even log in as a guest user to get a swift booking experience.

Profile Management: With secure authentication via HTTPS, registered users can store their contact details, favorite destinations, preferred payment methods, and more to ease many bookings.

Bookings: Users can search, filter, and book flight, taxi, bus, train, or cruise tickets and opt for select holiday packages. They can further modify/cancel the reservation, depending on the rules and availability. Also, they can share their travel plans on social media through the mobile-friendly interface directly.

Payments: The multicurrency support enables users to pay for their bookings through your online travel portal directly. They can apply promo codes to avail discounts. Further, they can print receipts, which would also be sent to their registered Email IDs automatically.

History & Feedback: This module helps travelers check their booking history and provide feedback on their experience with your company and tour operators. Besides, they can connect with your support representatives through live chat to solve queries.

Travel Portal Development Cost

The overall budget will depend on your requirements and the complexity of the project. It will include consideration of essential elements, like demographics, target audience, business size and niche are some of the other factors.

As Rishabh, our approach starts with understanding your business objective to visualize the overall scope. It is followed by designing a custom strategy and methodology as part of the software development lifecycle. Here’s what we focus on:

  • Project Goals and Objectives
  • Schedule Timeline
  • Scope of features, functionalities, modules and integration
  • Communication & co-ordination across teams
  • Critical Milestones and Deliverables
  • Possible Risks
  • Dependencies

As a company that is experienced in developing travel portals of varied scope, we can help you pick a cost-effective model that fits your budget.

Here is a showcase of how we helped South American travel & hospitality solutions provider with the migration and modernization of their Hotel Booking System. The revamped secure booking engine now covers the essentials aspect of hotel reservation software as listed below;

  • Simplified Booking
  • Easy to find Information
  • Room Inventory Dashboard
  • Improved Marketing Avenues

The solution resulted in 45% boost in annual revenue and 99.9% uptime with online availability.

Conclusion

A travel portal software helps organizations, agencies, and tour operators to centralize their business processes while allowing the companies & agents to perk up their promotion strategies. It enables their end customers to become mobile-friendly to experience a secure and hassle-free booking system. Rishabh Software is a preferred travel portal development services partner for companies of all sizes from the industry. Our custom-developed solutions are SaaS-based (Software as a Service) that are cost-effective and tailored to individual company’s need.

Be it flight, hotel, cruise, or any other booking solution, we can create platforms to combine a strong technology foundation with industry expertise. Whether it is app development, integration, or modernization, we help you compete globally. The sky is the limit for our clients in this domain. We empower them to increase the trust-level of your customers and operate efficiently.

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