Things You Can Do With Tour Operator Software

If you are a tour operator, leveraging relevant software or tool may be in your best interest. That’s because it can help you scale revenues as well as reduce costs. Even better, you may be able to improve operational efficiencies. While this gives a basic idea of what the tool can do for, here’s what you need to know in the broader sense:

The tool ensures that the ball lies in your court: you get to decide if you wish to sell products individually or you are likely to benefit more if the travel products are sold as pre-set package. The good news is that the choice is not limited to products, but is extended to sales channels as well. You are free to sell your products and packages through as many channels as you like, B2C, call center, web service, and social networks included. 
    
Furthermore, with tour operator software, managing things also becomes easy. To begin with, it is no longer an ordeal to manage operations and that’s because you get an integrated back-office and accounting system. Similarly, if in the past managing different pricing contracts was problematic for you, you can expect some respite especially in the case of per-room, range based, and occupancy based pricing.

Now is when the best part starts as the ease of managing things is also there in the context of commissions and markups. Managing them was never so easy. To top it all, if as a tour operator you get to deal with different inventory types, even then management may be the least of your worries if you are successful in taking advantage of the software. Last but not least, whatever you need to generate, whether it’s a general accounting report or a voucher or even a passenger manifest report for that matter, it can be done quite easily, all thanks to the software in use.

All there’s To Know about a Travel Booking Engine

As the name suggests, a travel booking engine is an application or software that helps travel providers like you, assuming you are one, to offer packages and other products with ease and in a streamlined manner. The engine is not only beneficial for you, but for your consumers as well, as they get to book flights, holiday packages, hotels, etc. without any difficulty. The best part is that this software has more or less revolutionized the travel industry, increasing the pace at which things were being done earlier. All said and done, given below are some of the enticing features of this engine:

• In most of the cases, it has a provision for sending email and SMS notifications automatically, thereby saving the time that your agents need to spend otherwise.
• Even better, travel vouchers are also generated automatically, further making things easier for you and more importantly, for the consumers.
• At times, consumers may approach in large groups. In any such scenario, do not fret because the travel booking engine is likely to be equipped with group booking capabilities.
• Furthermore, if you are to refer to the booking history for whatsoever reason, even then the software can come to your rescue.

In addition, one of the biggest advantages of using the software is that it gives you the ability to sell products and packages across multiple distribution channels. With a user-friendly booking interface, that’s the least you can expect. So, if the consumers are looking forward to directly book on your website, they can. Likewise, if the agents are to book through the online (read: B2B) channel, even they can easily do the needful. To top it all, the engine is specifically designed to keep a tab on commissions as well as agency account relationships.

Moving on to reports, well, that’s another area where the software can be of great help. For instance, if you are to track bookings and revenue, report generation can come in handy. The engine makes it possible for you to generate multiple reports in this regard. In fact, if you wish to generate reports on the fly so that you can download them later, you won’t be disappointed.