Tour Management & Distribution
TripRover
What is TripRover?
Rover is a web based packaged tour distribution and management framework for tour operators. Design of Rover maps most of the inherent complex processes of management, distribution, and fulfillment
How can TripRover help you?
We value your customers and we promise that if your customer is searching any of these options while planning his holiday Rover will help you create/tailor them to his satisfaction.
- My wife will not allow me to spend more than 5000 USD, any options
- Do you have packages for skiing (activity search)
- I am not sure where to go, but I want to start from NYC
- I am not sure where shall I start from but I am looking for packages in PARIS
- I want to select my own route for this package
- I want to travel business class and live in a suite room on this package
- what all complementary/optional services I can avail in this package
- What all flight options are available for covered destinations in this package
It will be our pleasure to address more questions, please suggest more. We will make sure they are already answered by Rover or it is trying hard to search the best answer.
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If you really think you are facing challenges while:
- Making quick changes to rates to reflect changes in the market place
- Adding new suppliers to your chain
- Getting rates / rate changes out into distribution channel quickly
- Getting skilled staff GDS/Supplier terminology
- Data input into multiple systems
- Making products bookable on the web
Let us know any other hindrance to your business and we will make sure TripRover overcomes this challenge and finds a best solution to your problem.
Rover for your enterprise
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Other than managing and creating packaged tours, TripRover also helps enterprises to publish packages on multiple channels for increased distribution. TripRover is capable of dynamically interfacing with external suppliers for fulfillment aspects of package elements.
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Management
- Destination management
- Route management
- Vendor Management
- Contracted rate management, complex air contracts/hotels etc…
- Supplements, Compliments, Optional services.
- Customer Management
- Promotion Management, e-Brochures
- Package Composition
Distribution
Service oriented design of Rover can scale to reach maximum distribution channels. Rover encapsulates a distribution framework in itself which can be tailored to suite specific requirements of a travel enterprise.
- Ready to use web/desktop interfaces for enterprise sales
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JSON/XML interfaces for extended channel sales/cross selling
- Search
- Details
- Book
- Search
- Java script/Business APIs to develop custom made distribution applications
Fulfillment
Depending on the package configuration Rover framework interfaces with external suppliers for fulfillment (availability and reservation). Currently it supports Worldspan, Amadeus for flights and GTA for hotel content. This feature of TripRover significantly reduces the procurement cycle and increases the front office productivity of enterprise. Additionally it gives consumers/users the flexibility of viewing all available options and subsequently choosing the most appropriate. Depending on the package composition, TripRover can quickly integrate other suppliers like insurance/cruises etc…..
RAD Blocks for Travel Apps
TravelBroker
What is TravelBroker?
TravelBroker is rapid application development framework for travel industry related software applications. It’s a core XML communication framework to different travel component suppliers like GDS for flights. Originated as flights utility module to assist programmers with no prior knowledge of specific GDS, currently travel broker supports rapid development interfaces for hotels and tours also.
How TravelBroker adds value?
Key to the entire broker concept, Travel Broker interfaces remain unchanged irrespective of suppliers in a particular category and can scale to add new suppliers quickly. To site an example, XML communication formats (request / response) of Flight Broker adapter remain same for all the GDSs though native communication format of individual GDSs are different. Any flight booking engine that uses Flight
Primary Features
- XML based communication
- Currently worldspan, Amadeus, Galileo, GTA
- Unified interfaces for linked suppliers
- Easy to understand for rapid development
- Scalable to add similar data sources without altering the interface
- Scalable to add multiple product categories
Agency and Technology – Indian View
My first post!!!
Before writing further- let me accept that it took me more than 3 hours to put a decent (relevant) title to blog home and additional 1 hour to decide title of this post. I am still not sure if these titles are relevant – it had to start with something…
Technology is EXTRA cost, get it FREE
Indian travel industry, as I read somewhere, is going to be a USD 12Billion market place by 2010. However with 5000+ IATAs and doubled the size of NON-IATAs, its unfortunate to mention that technology adaption by agencies is quite slow. There are agents who follow technology closely and analyze the benefits/losses they might have had by spending few thousand on technology.
However majority of these agents are still unable to come out of the FREE to avail habits, thanks to suppliers – especially GDSs – where they reach out any possible measure to bag agents J
Technology is NO cost but an investment to be FREE
will add some thoughts in this week..
