Last 10 years have been great for travel and hospitality domain. There has been a consistent shift from offline hotel booking model to web bookings through online hotel reservation systems. Branding, growth, marketing strategies are all connected to online hotel reservation software. Delivering hotel software, which can create the value for global audience, is a challenging task and hotel software development companies must have constant attention to technology shifts, global business trends and user inclinations. The online hotel reservation system development companies have been working towards this concept to help their clients stay ahead in the business.
Online hotel reservation system development revolves around the inventory and pricing. Hotel APIs are the key elements for the same. GTA travel, hotelbeds, hotelspro, DOTW, travco, tourico are some of the top hotel consolidators. Professional hotel booking system development companies must give proper attention to clients’ need of inventory in specific geography, pricing, target audience. This is certainly important to stay ahead of competition. Below are some other points, which carries equal importance –
Single Hotel API or Multiple APIs
This is one top call. One should know about it even before starting any hotel booking system development project. If the client is just starting the business, he may start with one hotel xml. Any existing travel & hospitality company would like to go for more than one hotel APIs for better inventory and volume.
Technology Know How
Hotel reservation system and associated technology is a fast growing domain. Upgrading knowledge is a must to stay ahead. For example, using responsive and non responsive UIs for the hotel reservation system is a decision, one should at the commencement of project.
Top Coding Standards
To keep the development timeline aggressive, hotel reservation system developers used to hardcode a lot of things while programming. Hotel software developers must know that hard coding may pace up the first version release but releasing the next versions will take equally more time. So its always advisable to professional developers to keep the best coding standards.
Core Library Building
Top travel technology companies know that the game is about providing best services in the longer run. Thus these companies believe in developing the comprehensive libraries, which can be used through direct call or web services. These libraries reduce the timeline of any hotel booking software development.
Versions
Its very recommended to receive and review the response of the end users before taking your hotel software system to next stage. Thus developers keep a clear approach of version based development and release.
Airline reservations bring top growth for online travel booking portals
With travel technology advancement that the world has witnessed, airline reservation system couldn’t be left behind. There was a growing demand for an online reservation system which could help in swift booking of the airline bookings. With the top GDS like Amadeus, Galileo and Sabre, airline reservations through online portals, have gone onto a next level. Higher volumes are making up for the thinner margin in flight booking domain.
Author is a senior business analyst and an expert in hotel reservation development projects.