Intermediaries such as wholesalers, bedbanks, and metasearch engines play a pivotal role in travel product distribution. Their vast networks of travel agents and access to buyers offer travel product suppliers such as hoteliers’ unrivaled breadth of destination expertise and global reach across regions and interest groups. If you are in this business then you know…
As an intermediary selling travel products obtained from suppliers, margin management can be summed up as understanding where your money is being made or lost. This might sound straightforward, but even larger firms have trouble optimising the difference between a good deal and a great deal. Or put simply that the opportunity to sell rooms…
Are your distribution tactics leading to higher customer conversions and lower customer acquisition costs? Every organisation seeks to improve these metrics, but in the world of online travel this could literally be the difference between sink or swim. Put like that, real time business analytics (as opposed to yesterday’s or last week’s results) could be…
NDC is bringing the opportunity to gain valuable operational, market and customer insights from a lot of data generated by: – Customer search requests– Airline responses to those searches with their offers– Bookings (the searches that successfully convert) To draw these insights requires a structured decision process with predefined logic and real-time access to trusted data….
In the cut throat competitive world of online distribution– speed (and not just price) is of the essence, because several players will be lining up to compete with inventory. It really comes down to having the right inventory at the right price in the right time. All achieved with XML messages across the supply chain….
The online travel industry is made up of a complex web of distribution channels and networks. Travel product suppliers such as hotel companies and airlines need to interconnect with aggregators and distributors such as wholesalers, metasearch and GDSs to reach as large an audience as possible for their rooms and seats. Meanwhile suppliers are also…
Airline conferences discussing the new world of airline merchandising reveal that airline executives are going through a total ‘out-of-the box re-think’ about what an airline offers to its customers and how it’s products and services are sold. The central question for airlines is how to ensure a “multi-channel strategy with an intense focus on driving…
Our diverse platform available via the cloud as well as en-premise is designed for the distribution operations of suppliers such as hotels and airlines as well as intermediaries such as wholesalers, bedbanks and flight aggregators. It is built on the ‘Four Pillars of Online Conversion’. Each pillar a solid foundation for addressing the fundamental need…