Booking Engine: Flights, car, cruise and hotels

Booking Engine

What does a booking engine do?

The TC Booking Engine powers travel sites by providing the technology and the content necessary to sale and book travel on-line. It encompasses the connection to the travel suppliers, the display of fares and travel content, precise pricing capabilities detailed up to the origin and destination level as well as the system managing of the flow of the reservation itself. In short, the TC Booking engine is a complete solution that automates every step associated with distributing travel on-line from the display of travel content (fare, rates, descriptions, images) all the way to the payment, the reservation and the confirmation process.

Searches multiple data sources
Including privately negotiated rates
Mark-up fares when mark-up rules are specified in the mid office

Finds the lowest available fares

Displays search results for air, hotel, car, cruise, activities and insurance
Makes reservations and accepts payments in a secure environment
Sends confirmation emails

What is a booking engine comprised of?

TC Booking Engine is comprised of a connection to travel suppliers, a back office, a booking form, fare result pages with their user controls, a payment processing and confirmation system. Additionally, TC booking engine comes with a middle ware that allows a granular control over travel sites through the management of content, sites, users, bookings, sourcing and pricing. Travel connectivity also provides additional access to price competitive conmissionable content with its consolidator net rates program. TC booking engine is highly customizable to the clients' needs and fast to implement.

Travel supplier connections
Bookable content: air, hotels, cars, crusies, activities and insurance
Internet pages with A booking form and results pages
Secure payment processing and reservation system managing PNRs
Destination information

Travel Agents - distribute your content online

TC enables travel agents to sell on the Internet while still offering a personalized experience by way of customization. Travel Connectivity can assist travel agencies with all aspect of managing their business On-line. That includes web development, web design, front, mid and back office automation as well as web analytics, Search Engine Markeing, Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Convertion. TC solutions aim at making each customer competitive in an environment where profit margins are under a tremendous amount of pressure. The TC Booking Engine works with all GDSs ( Amadeus, Galileo, Sabre and Worldspan). Travel Connectivity has a wide range of solutions for travel agents who don't have a GDS connection or an active contract with Amadeus, Galileo, Sabre or Worldspan.

Fast and easy implementation
Establish an online presence with air, hotel, car, cruise, activities and insurance
Book more high-commission content
Great control over pricing, sourcing, mid & back office
Receive asssitance from knowledgeable staff
Complete solution including full or partial hosting
Instant access to comprehensive content

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Optimizing Business for Consolidators

Travel Connectivity can give consolidators a B2B and B2C presence with the TC booking engine. The distibution that is so vital to success in today's competitive environment can be easily implemented. The TC B2B booking engine offers secure logins and user registration protection. Consolidators need to keep a competitive position and increase their productivity by reducing their costs. Travel Connectivity offers multi-channel distribution that can help consolidators increase their revenues.