Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Travel Technology provider “TravelCarma” launches New Website with Innovative Solutions…


Travel Technology provider “TravelCarma” is excited to announce the launch of its new website www.travelcarma.com. The new website has a refreshing new look-n-feel, user-friendly navigation, and it effectively highlights the company’s innovative solutions/services for Travel & Hospitality industry, its achievements and news/updates.

Travel Agencies, Tour Operators, Hotels, Resorts, Excursion and Activities Providers, Bus Operators/Coach, Rental Car Operators, Tourism Organizations, Travel Wholesalers / Aggregators / Consolidators / Distributors, Destination Management Companies, Tourism Associations and Restaurants can easily find details about the latest software solutions offerings which can help them in growing their online business.

TravelCarma invites the entire travel & hospitality industry to visit the website and also share with their business network, partners, professionals & friends, who need consultation and/or technology for their Travel & Hospitality Business.

For any queries or more information, please contact us at http://www.travelcarma.com/contact-us.htm

About TravelCarma
TravelCarma is a suite of software solutions that enables travel & hospitality companies to become a full-fledged Online Travel Business. TravelCarma suite of solutions includes, Booking Engines (Hotels, Flights, Cars, Packages, Activities, Golf, Bus, Restaurants), Central Reservation System, Website with Content Management System (CMS), Sales & Distribution Channels Management, Travel Suppliers Connectivity, Facebook Booking Portal, Mobile enabled Portals, Customer Relationship Management.

TravelCarma also provides Technology Consulting Services, Customized software development, Developing Connectors with multiple suppliers like GDS, Wholesalers, Suppliers, Integration services with existing internal systems, legacy systems and 3rd party systems, social media enablement, SEO, SEM services offering expertise on cutting-edge technologies (Cloud computing, SaaS, Switching, etc).

TravelCarma solutions are available on SaaS Model (Pay as you Use), License Model and Customized Software Development Model. TravelCarma is awarded as “Best SaaS-AppS” for Travel Industry, by NASSCOM and also profiled in the listing of NASSCOM's 100 IT Innovators.




Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Emerging Value of Sales Channel Management in the Hospitality Industry


Sales Channel Management Software is an emerging solution with rising demand for online agent management in the Hospitality Industry. Travel agents and now even hoteliers do not need to locally manage all their contracted & constricted rates for their online inventory if they use the channel management solution. The modules available in the Travel agency system can be used to easily manage the details of online master agent, his down-line agents and the chain of sub-agents, even with the participation of the employees in a synchronized manner.

Online Sales Channel Solution handles margins, markups, pass-on commissions, exceptional criteria’s in percentages for each down-line and chain of sub-agents. Each online travel agent can be allocated rights to way in their internet contracted rates and discounts directly from channel management system. It also smooths the development of internet user management for diverse users with their roles in the system like agents, sub-agents, employees, corporate users and branch operators.

The main agent can add/modify or change the online managed distributors and set Markup, Margin & Commissions for the down line sub agents by setting up business rules and set exception criteria’s for different travel businesses to fetch required results. The finest part of the solution is that it offers co-branding solutions for each user & roles with affluent and their individual choice of user interface.

The main agent can give classified access to down-line agents and achieve data security & privacy by allowing access of specified skin to selected users based on the right levels. Users can generate reports for agent-wise, branch-wise, supplier-wise and hotelier commission summary. The agents can also get sales summary of date-wise, week-wise, month-wise and year-wise comparison reports.  Transaction reports consist of booking details, cancellation details, auto cancellation and promotional booking details along with the list of change request & failed transactions to be kept in records.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Hotel & Travel Agency Solutions Penetrating USA Travel Industry


Innovative hotel management and travel agency software’s have accomplished colossal results in the year 2010 - 2011. This shows that Software development companies’ expert in Hospitality & Tourism Industry is every time giving new, inventive and more easily accessible hotel management software solutions in the last two years and will offer better solutions as expected in coming years.

These hotel and travel solutions engage an evident competence in the manual work to be done, a extensive augmentation in hotel service offerings, effective utilization of resources and timely online booking reservations.

Specialized hotel management software’s make sure that there is minimum task complexity in the transactions and internet hotel reservations are carried out in real-time. As a result, hotel guests turn out to be more satisfied, and the better customer concurrence is an important achievement in the hotel & tourism industry.

Using an enterprise hotel software solution, hotels and resorts can not only book lavish rooms, but also earn profits from cross selling which can be better supplied through technology. Technology Companies in Tourism & Hospitality domain have been mounting and ground-breaking with highly used features following the up to date online technology.

Because of this rising demand of hotel software and travel agency solutions many technology companies have paid attention on the same domain and stage bringing easy to use software for meeting all types of requirements and demands with one single solution. They provide you with complete technology services and you can revise the features or services that you incline for your customization.

Monday, June 13, 2011

Online Tours & Activities Solutions driving Hospitality & Tourism Industry


In the current Industry scenario selling on internet has become expected for Tour and Travel sector. At present online travel & tourism industry is all about linking different people and culture with the help of new technology and innovative solutions. The requirement of the market is to opt for a pioneering solution that make the most of the revenue and diminishes the extra cost. 

Implementing new expertise solutions for their target audiences will succeed recent technology companies in this composite travel market. Travel technology includes many developments to capitalize on their revenue by using the latest technology. Travel Technology plays a crucial role for selling online which may also be referred as a Hospitality or Tourism Technology.

Emerging brands in the travel technology solutions providers are proving their point in the market by launching new and ground-breaking products. Comprehensive solutions that are evolving with new travel market research activities and business challenges is leading to a cut-throat competition for the travel and hospitality industry working in the technical domain.

Tours & Activities Reservation Systems are developed with state-of-the-art online technology and can be easily integrated with any other external system to kick start the travel business in no time be a startup or a offline Travel Agent or Tour Operator. Through this software one can configure activities, schedule, stop sell, upload photos & videos and many other real-time facilities at their end without disturbing their current business. With help of Travel Reservation Systems on internet, companies can generate more online revenue with fewer efforts.

Tour and Activity Solution is an integrated resolution system to manage down line agents and other suppliers. Excursion or Activity booking engine on Facebook with real-time inventory distribution and online channel management is one of the latest solution incorporating Social Media in the Travel & Hospitality Industry domain.

Friday, June 10, 2011

Online Social Media for Travel & Hospitality Industry


Travel & Hospitality Industry possibly will use online social media to better meet the needs of their customers. No doubt one sector that is really accepting social media especially in the developed destinations like US is the travel and leisure industry and it is a domain well apt to online social media. People can share their healthy experiences and amalgamate with each other resulting in to more online travel business.

Hotels and resorts could have a Flickr account where they can make pictures public and persuade guests to have their personal pictures as well. Since guests want to know how things are actually there in their holiday package and the engendered photos will make sure that pictures of the hotel or resort are real.

Blogs are another tool that individual as well as chain of hotels can start a real time communication with their target audience. This blogs can give what life is where they are traveling and can archive information about the destinations in diverse seasons, excursions in the nearby areas and local facts. This can be an exceptional way for hotels and local destination agents to explore their resources such as the area’s best places to go for sightseeing or visit the tourist attracting places like museums.

Generating a custom Google map for a explicit location could be a way to endorse a complete region or city. This can provide guests with a virtual map of accommodation, restaurants in close proximity, parks, famous shopping places, providing the guests with trouble-free tour directions.

Facebook and Twitter could be a way to bring up to date special offers and striking promotions especially for the off-season period. On the local level, it can also involve events in the specific destination areas. Vacation Packages to be planned need the relevant information like the weather, the traffic and availability and even their social media is a great tool for being able to transmit this type of important information in real time.