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Your Flight Booking Software Should Provide Options

If you are selling multiple travel products, you may want your booking engine to access hotel content using one source, but look to use a totally different connection for your flight booking software or perhaps several other sources when booking certain destinations.

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Your Flight Booking Software Should Provide Options

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  1. Your Flight Booking Software Should Provide Options There are so many different types of travel related content available and so many different online travel technology solutions available today that it is sometimes difficult to know which the best fit for your needs is. While some travel booking software may have the great functionality and the features you need, it may not have the type of Supplier content your clients are looking for. On the flip side, you may find an online booking solution with the perfect content source, but find that it is missing the functionality and features you need. If you are selling multiple travel products, you may want your booking engine to access hotel content using one source, but look to use a totally different connection for your flight booking software or perhaps several other sources when booking certain destinations. Finding the all the right travel related content sources in a single online booking solution that has the features and functionality you need can be overwhelming at first and a bit of a challenge at best. The solution to your problems may be found with travel booking software that includes the features and functionality you need to properly manage your business as well as a flexible supplier connection gateway which will allow you to access different content sources for different travel products. Some of the more advanced travel technology solutions even allow you to choose specific content sources by Supplier, providing the ultimate in content source flexibility. Say you want your flight booking software to use your GDS ID to make most of your airline bookings, except one or two where you prefer to use an air consolidator to ensure you offer the most competitive price. Your travel booking software needs to be able to quickly and easily support these different connections and know when to use each.

  2. Flight booking software also need the ability to quickly and easily define business rules so you can maximize profits and include value add offers or special deals in the availability display. Your online booking engine needs to be able to keep up with all the different specials and promotions that Suppliers make available today. Selling price adjustments and value add offers should be easy to define and have the flexibility to define a rule by a specific market, travel dates, booking dates, supplier uses and more. And finally to serve today’s growing number of consumers who use their mobile device to purchase travel products as well as those that switch between devices during the research and booking process, many companies are building travel technology solutions that use responsive technology that automatically adjusts the screen layout based on the type of device being used. For those looking for a dedicated Mobile App, there are several companies designing and developing custom Apps. Finding flight booking software that has the right functionality and the specific content your customers need is an important decision for your travel business. Finding the right technology partner to assist you can be even more important.

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