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Travel suppliers have been an eminent part of the travel industry and have been responsible for providing opportunity to many IATA and non IATA travel agencies to build a hotel booking system exclusive to them, in-spite of having no knowledge about the travel industry and its operation. By the term travel suppliers we designate the group of suppliers from hotel, car, bus, tours, transfers, cruise, payment gateways and insurance industries. These travel suppliers gets access to the system in API format and integrate through the web services.
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Certain travel agencies have their own travel suppliers and this help them to grow their business with the help of B2B and B2C travel portals. Accessing a huge worldwide inventory is what the travel agents get in return. Integrating the worldwide inventory of travel suppliers to a single point of integration is what we define as the Global distribution system (GDS). With the help of the API and XML of the various travel suppliers, integration of the hotel booking system with the global distribution system becomes quite easier.
Along with this the online hotel booking system also gets access to the next generation travel technology implemented by the global distributors. The hotel booking processes have undergone a sea of transformation through the hotel APIs that forms a part of the hotel travel suppliers. The hotel APIs have provided the hotel booking system with a new dimension n terms of look and sophistication. The traditional hotel booking system has been replaced with an advanced technological astute online hotel booking engine. There has been an enhanced level of efforts, operation, efficiency and customer service that has helped in providing hotel booking system with a new look.
Hotel suppliers also known as the hotel consolidators are the new travel management companies providing large inventories of hotel contents. The hotel database is provided in the form of API or XML format to the different hotel booking agents, hotel booking startups and even in some cases to the OTAs spread across the globe.
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PROVAB TECHNOSOFT is a leading hotel booking system development company helping travel startups and entrepreneurs to integrate with different travel suppliers and API providers. PROVAB can successfully integrate hotel suppliers, bus suppliers, car suppliers, flight suppliers, transfers suppliers to your online reservation system or CRS system. Integrating various suppliers will give your customers access to all kind of travel services in one go from one single point web booking engine. The B2B model allows even travel agents (subagents) to book from a privileged account and get the commissions on every bookings. Further the booking engine can be worked for various business model like B2C, B2B2B etc. and a strong backend CMS system to manage all the API or XML content coming from different API of travel suppliers.
The hotel contents that forms a part of the hotel booking engine includes features like rates, offers, room availability, add-on features, videos, images, facilities and many more features to attract the end-users and provide them with more information. The inventories that are part of the hotel suppliers are associated with a single hotel booking system which enables the customers to book hotels from their websites directly. The B2B interface that forms a part of the hotel booking engines through the travel (hotel) suppliers allows the sub-agents to get access to the online booking system which is aimed at increasing the number of sales or the number of booking through the online hotel booking system.
The hotel suppliers are associated with the travel agents and tour operators located in the major cities and destination across the globe, which leads to a smooth process of distributing the properties or the hotel inventories. The buying power of the hotel suppliers enable them to provide relevant discount which the end-user is not able to achieve when he or she deals with the hotel directly. The process is very simple, hotel offer greater discounts to the hotel suppliers owing to the fact that they are liable to get a larger number of reservations through them. Providing discounted room through the online hotel reservation system leads to a greater number of reservations.
To reach out to more and more number of customers, the travel agencies have associated themselves to the hotel XML suppliers and the tour operators located at specific location, which are the major holiday destinations. Concentrating at the tourist destinations and big cities or popular resorts at the specific destination are some of the ways in which the hotel suppliers increase their sale and consequently make the hotel booking system more competitive.
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Regarding Author:
Author is a travel technology expert and has been involved in several online reservation system development projects.