Travel Agency is First to Allow Concierges and Consumers to Build Their Own Packages with Local Hotels and Attractions. Package Engine links directly into Hotel Reservation System as well as individual properties, local attractions, and tours not offered in GDS. In today travel market, consumers are interested in a one-stop-shop where they can build and book a complete travel experience — flights, car rentals, attractions, tours, event tickets, dinner reservations with local restaurants and hotel accommodations. Test our affordable web marketing and seo solutions for travel agencies. They want the ability to book this along with amenities such as parking, airport transfers, massages, golf tee times, and pet fees, very little of which is found on Global Distribution Systems (GDS) or Internet Distribution Systems (IDS). Only Travel agents allows the hotel chain, individual hotels, and attractions to build packages that include any of these local merchants.
Travel agent is also the first company to offer a commission-free and GDS fee-free pricing model to hotels, tourism boards and tour operators. This ground-breaking alternative pricing model allows travel companies to significantly lower their distribution costs and keep more of their transaction revenues.
Hotels are tired of paying net rates, commissions, and booking fees to travel agents and other companies, explained President and Founder of Travel Agency. Our model allows them to run a more profitable business and still generate incremental revenue from local attractions and hotel amenities.
Dynamic Packaging Booking Engine integrates seamlessly with a hotel chain, tourism board, or tour operator website to incorporate their look and feel, package themes, stay controls, rates, and inventory. The program can also accept electronic feeds from designated air partners, car rentals, GDS or IDS. Additionally, Travel Agency can deploy its travel tools at call centers and visitor centers to maintain rate integrity and central reporting.
As stated in a recent USA Today article entitled Concierges go extra mile in Internet age, hotels have an opportunity to share local neighborhood intelligence about restaurants, events and attractions with their guests electronically prior to arrival, said VP of Sales, Travel Agency. We agree as Travel Agency has the technology to enable properties to provide high touch exemplary guest service.
Travel Agency Dynamic Packaging Booking Engine can also: -Work with small and large properties, cabins, resorts, vacation homes and condos. -Provide a secure extranet that allows hotels, tour operators and attractions to input personalized local package elements. Our booking engine is flexible enough to work with a large vendor like Marriott, as well as a smaller B&B in Mexico that does not even have regular electricity! proclaimed Bifulco. Some mom and pop vendors that offer fishing trips, walking tours and restaurants dont have websites and are not on the GDS, but we can still include them in the package. The Dynamic Engine markets packages à la carte so that consumers can add items one by one.
The end game for the hotelier is to entice the consumer to book directly on the hotels website, said Bowman. We have the travel experience and track record to successively implement this at the local property and corporate level, as we have over 200 hotels using the system.