By definition, travel management software is the online booking software platform, specially designed for travel management companies to improve and grow their travel business by automating bookings, payments and itinerary creation process. Following are some of the key features of top travel management software platforms.
- OTA platform with flights, holidays, hotels, city breaks, flights, activities, transfers.
- End users, Agents and Corporates.
- GDS / APIs connection with different travel suppliers.
- Extranet module to connect self contracted travel inventory.
- Custom itinerary creation tool
Our recommendations : as a growing travel management company, you may be looking for booking, marketing or accounting software for your business. A top of the class travel agent software should be more than an online booking tool. It should give you a sustainable advantage against competition in terms of CRM integration, process automation, accounting and digital marketing.
To find a top travel management software provider, you should look for a company which has good experience in GDS / API integration apart from very strong functional experience in the travel and tourism domain. Travel tech solutions are way more than normal ecommerce and thus the company must have a minimum of 10 years of experience with at least 50 custom projects under its belt.
A travel global distribution system can be used to market your latest sales message, special offers, and discounts direct to travel agents. It’s highly effective in alluring the international travelers.A GDS system enables the process of automated transaction between the third parties and the booking agents, which in turn helps in providing travel related services to the end-users.The information provided by travel GDS systems like inventory, rates, availability, details are in real time and thus it reduces the overall execution time per booking for travel agencies is less, which leads to higher revenues and profits.
