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Flight Booking Engine

Future of Travel Agents and Tour Operators with Travel Technology

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Travelling was never ever this easy with the advancement in travel technology. Traveller’s experience, services offered to travellers, ease of booking have enhanced a traveller’s experience. People, who had to run to travel agents to book their tickets, make hotel reservations and holiday packages can now simply log into their laptops or smartphones and make all the reservations themselves in just a few clicks.

Giant online travel portals such as Yatra.com, SOTC.in, Make My Trip, Booking.com, etc. are making it extremely easy for travelers to choose their favorite destinations, book flight tickets, reserve a preferred room in a hotel and get all the necessary travel products right at their fingertips, causing great difficulty for traditional travel agents and tour operators to boost their sales and grow their business. No matter how hard they try to sell their services with effective marketing and promoting their travel products, they are loosing the battle to these online booking engines.

The statistics show that in the last 20 years, tour operators’ share of bookings has declined by 50% due to the arrival of online travel portals as they tend to provide their customers brilliant discounts in hotel reservations and other beneficial offers on other services. However, even though the hotel reservation part of travelling has seen a great fall for travel agents, but more than 70% people who are travelling overseas still tend to book their flights through travel agents as they provide them a much better price with human intervention. With this data, one can understand the future of travel agents and tour operators.

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Online Booking Engine

Impact of Online Booking Engine on Travel Industries

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Travel and Tourism is one of the largest industry that contribute to the global economy. Worldwide this industry has been growing steadily every year. Technology has taken an immense place in people’s life. The way things are done is changing, so is the Traveler’s buying behaviors and expectations. Travelers want everything on their fingers tip so that they can book fast, easily and in cost effective manner.

Before digital times, the role of the travel agent was to advise clients on travel destinations and to act as an intermediary in the difficult process of organizing travel bookings. Even as late as the early 1990’s, consumers booked Flight, Hotel, Car etc. through travel agents as many companies did not offer direct bookings. But with the automation brought by the changing travel technology has made the traveler looking for mobility, flexibility and easy real-time access to information. For this an Online Booking Engine reduces stress off travelers to plan their travel end-to-end.
Online Booking Engines for respective products are becoming the fastest growing sales interface for travel intermediaries. They help travelers to book Flight, Hotel, Car Rentals, Travel Insurance, Sightseeing, Transfers, Holiday packages, Bus and Cruise. The concept of having an Online Booking Engine has helped travel industry to evolve. The next level of Online Booking Engine is the Meta Search Engine. It is an interface to compare a product from various sources based on the product’s price and availability mainly.

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QuadLabs at Arabian Travel Market Dubai 2014

QuadLabs Technologies Successfully Participated in ATM 2014, Dubai UAE

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Arabian Travel Market Dubai, one of the leading travel events for Middle East travel market. It attracts business potential for inbound and outbound tourism professionals not only from Middle East but across the world.

QuadLabs Team, experts in travel technology, successfully presented their technology at ATM 2014 for exhibitors as well as visitors in Middle East. In this event QuadLabs team focused on their enterprise solution and the newer version of their product i.e. XChange 11.6 on cloud, a travel ERP system and Corporate Booking tool. Both these solutions are capable of addressing travel concerns of travel enterprises.

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Flight Booking System- How it works?

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Ever since the first technological breakthrough of computerized system for flight booking by American Airlines has taken place the airline industry has experienced 360 degree change.  It replaced rather the lengthy booking process of flights where customer would call up travel agent, who would then look for flights their schedules availability rates etc. upon receiving the confirmation from the customer the travel agent would get the seats reserved. Thus, it was vital for the travel agencies to access the system which provides them with variety of tasks for managing their customer’s needs from the initial time of query till the time they get on the plane. The flight booking system comes with features such as management of ticketing, refunds, cancellations, schedule of flights helping the travel intermediary to minimize cost incurred with distribution.

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How does an Online Booking Engine Empower the Travel Business?

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The travel industry in the current market state is facing many challenges like swiftly rising costs, meeting customer expectations and high economic pressures. With changing economic conditions and new financial regulations, there are various problems a travel business has to undergo like; the distribution of products through multiple sales channels and managing inventory, deciding which system to use, charging flat fee or commission and pressure of up selling and optimization of the business. A broad solution to all these problems lies in an online booking engine which is a comprehensive outcome for expanding, optimizing and managing travel business.

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