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Don’t let planning your clients' fun trip, stress you out.
Here is a system that takes care of operations and reservations. One that classifies vacation segments into individual, packages, escorted tours, cruises.
Tour Partner™ accommodates multiple distribution channels, with multi-division, multi-brand marketing strategies, providing web-based interfaces for Call Center, Agent (B2B) and Consumer (B2C) reservations. Besides, the sophisticated inventory and pricing features optimize profitability, for all kinds of tour products – FIT, flexible plans, fixed departure packages, escorted tours, dynamically packaged elements, and custom-built itineraries. And of course, it comes with an XML API that allows integration to third party systems.
- Defines multiple types of travel products, obtains inventory and defines pricing for those product types and then makes bookings against these definitions
- Allows bookings in the system that may involve any number of travel items, people and any combination of those people at any given item
- Support includes air, hotel, cruise, car, activities, transportation, transfers, miscellaneous, insurance and special services
- Supports combination of travel items that can be pre-assembled into “packages.” Packages may be departure date specific or generic. The concept of individual (FIT) and escorted programs is also supported
- Supports group travel. It can be set up to include packages or any number of individual items required. Group pricing is tailored to fit a group’s requirements
- Each travel item has its own pricing and inventory methodology based on own requirements
- The architecture of travel items is extensible, as new travel products may become available
- Allows multiple selling channels. The company’s clients can be travel agencies, group travel organizers or individuals
- Allows the company to develop multiple strategies for different types of clients based on nature and geographical location, in terms of pricing and products available for sale
- Enables communication with travel vendors, either real-time or by other traditional methods, to obtain inventory and cost information and to allow the company to report on sales. The key example is real-time integration with airline GDS systems
- Comes with in-built financial tracking capability, namely A/R and A/P modules for bookings and detailed integration strategy with third party financial systems
- Handles booking for the entire vacation travel market
- Provides a scalable solution to meet current and future needs for multi-channel distribution and global operations
- Doubles as a hub for a business-to-business product distribution with multiple sales channels
- Comprises fully web-enabled user interface for all functionalities and is entirely browser based
- Accommodates multiple personalities with different booking flows based on user type
- Allows creation of a wide variety of travel offerings for the client with sophisticated inventory capability
- Allows products to be re-sold to clients either as individual components, or as a package
- Supports interfaces with external systems like CRSs, accounting and financial packages, customer relationship management systems, and yield management systems
- Reaches a wider network
- Increases market reach with support for multiple distribution channels and associated pricing and inventory strategies
- Improves Call Center productivity using optimized booking flows. The reservations process is thus tailored to the type of booking being made
- Processes reduce the amount of manual mid-office processing, eg Vendor Notifications, Options Tracking, Quote Purging
- Allows loading from spreadsheets and reduces workload for product teams
- N-tier model, with segregated business logic and user interface coding
- Web interface
- Integrates with third party interfaces using XML
- Grouped by business processes, and is executed by calls to the application servers
- Open system, that allows use of XML, (including SOAP & web services), as well as calls from Java, C, C++ and .NET clients
- Uses database software of Progress Software (www.progress.com). Progress Software offers a very reliable and scalable environment
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Tour Partner, an end to end tour management platform that addresses the comprehensive needs of the leisure travel market. Download ...
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