B2B Travel Software

The arrival of online B2B travel portal, travel businesses have seen a tremendous growth in

numbers today and are increasing at very fast pace. While, entire travel & hospitality industry is

experiencing a revolutionary phase, it would be crucial to know the importance of online B2B

travel portal and how it can help bring in robust growth for a travel agent and the Sub-Agent/

B2B network it has.

Travel businesses have seen a remarkable growth in last few years it’s growing with a pace of

25-30 % CAGR, B2B refers to Business to business channel and is a common arena where travel

content & product information along with the services are exchanged amongst various business

enterprises. Largely, travel businesses are operated either through a B2C or B2B system.

Technically, these systems are reservation and booking software’s developed, based on concepts

of cloud computing, which support large data management in complex network.

For travel agency in particular, an online B2B travel portal has become very important because it

gets integrated & distributes content to a vast network of global travel businesses. Some of the

benefits that travel agencies gets by integrating into an online business to business system are-

accessibility to various services that are available with travel content consolidators or

aggregators with reservation availability, real time pricing; market specific pricing and various

offers and discounts subject to demand & supply. With all this information, travel agencies can

execute the reservation process as well as manage their clients and their enquiries without any

hassle.

Other features that are part of B2B systems are dynamic B2B interfaces, B2B2B management

(agents can create & manage their own sub agents, define their mark-ups, product access,

commissions etc.), agency management, online quotation management and many more

innovative money making features. Through all these features, one advantage that is experienced

by both suppliers and travel agents in a great way is reduction in time and cost while executing

various booking related tasks.

Building business contract is one important aspect a travel agency should take care while filing a

contract into an online B2B travel portal. If contracts are made manually, there may arise many

issues such as delays in confirming availability and price distribution, use of older

communication mediums which are generally through phone, fax etc. All these factors make the

manual process of contracting very labor intensive & in parallel very time and money

consuming. Travel booking software are benefiting in a great way by the process of online

contracting which happens between travel agents and service/ content providers. Contracts if

made online have many advantages compared to traditional manual contracting process done

through paper work. Some of the key advantages are better efficiency in time, cost effective and

convenience of faster access to updated rates and distribution in single system.

Through Axis Softech B2B online travel software, travel agency can start generating the revenue

from day one without investing much on the marketing. If they have a strong B2B network, there

revenue forecast can be calculated from day one. Results are also not much changed from the

forecast as forecast is based on realistic, practical data figures and assumptions. Travel agencies,

suppliers, distributors are putting focused approach in creating and maintaining a strong B2B

network, which is one of the most important sales channel apart from offline bookings.