Internet Booking Engine

TravelStoreMaker.com offers a highly customizable new generation Internet Booking Engine. With real time connection to multiple Global Distribution Systems (GDS) and other travel content sources, user interfaces in 22 languages and support for all GDS featured currencies, the Internet Booking Engine helps you adopt a targeted approach to various market segments.

End-users, corporate customers or partner agencies can book flights, cars or hotel rooms individually or combined dynamically in a package within a single transaction. Reservations made through the Internet Booking Engine are electronically sent to a travel agency for ticketing.

The flights function of TravelStoreMaker.com's Internet Booking Engine integrates GDS published air fares, consolidator air fares, low-cost carrier air fares and charter air fares at the point of sale. TravelStoreMaker.com branding technology enables you to create branded online travel websites with the look and feel of your own home site.

• Meta- Search in multiple GDS, multiple PCC
• Connectivity to Low-cost carriers
• Multiple Ticketing locations for non IATA entities
• Complex (Open jaw and Multi-leg) trips
• Calendar Shopping; Flex + - 3 days search (when supported by the GDS)
• Support of multiple passenger types
• Multi-language (22 languages currently available) & Multiple currencies
• Range of payment options & Payment solutions/Gateways
• Auto-ticketing
• Ticket type and advanced fare rules display
• Connectivity to Third party content providers
• Advanced Service fee management
• Support of carrier and specific city blacklisting
• Google maps location display for hotels
• Search by hotel name in aggregated 40+ providers database
• Ability to cross-sell related products such as travel insurance
• Support of Combined RT fares (GDS + Low-cost; OW GDS + OW GDS; OW GDS + OW Low-cost; OW Low-cost + OW Low-cost)
• Code share flights
• Ability to distinguish between CAT 35 ATPCO loaded net and web airfares from GDS published airfares
• Support of Galileo and Worldspan special private airfares products
• Support of Advanced mark-up and discount on all types of fares
• Broad range of payment options
• Support for a variety of Payment Gateway services

By taking advantage of TravelStoreMaker.com's advanced booking engine technology a travel agency gets the chance to increase its customer base and market reach while minimizing its sales and distribution costs.

TravelStoreMaker.com’s IBE has gained a solid International recognition for the fact that it has been chosen by leading travel companies from more than 30 countries around the world.

Dynamic Packaging

TravelStoreMaker.com's on-line reservation system supports a dynamic packaging option combining air + hotel/car reservations in one transaction, utilizing a seamlessly integrated, deeply discounted database of hotel rates from 43 hotel aggregators, and its own hotel database. Furthermore offering choice and flexibility, it allows online travel providers to meet the specific requirements of their market. The booking process is organized in such a way that the traveler is presented with one single price for air+hotel/car product.

Low Cost Carriers

Fares of over 100 low cost carriers are integrated and available for booking through TravelStoremaker.com Internet Booking Engine. By offering this lucrative opportunity to your clients you can increase your own revenue, diversify your services portfolio and satisfy in a maximum extent the customer needs. In addition, for low cost carrier type of reservations there are no fulfillment costs involved.

Low Cost Carriers + Dynamic Packaging

Low cost carriers’ fares are integrated in the Dynamic Packaging feature. Driven by customer need and market demand, TravelStoreMaker.com technology supports this highly valuable travel option that is both profitable for you and your customers. As a rule, customers searching for low cost carrier air fares are extremely price sensitive. When low cost fares are combined with Dynamic Packaging function, customers' expectations for access to inexpensive travel products are fully met and the agency's fulfillment costs are reduced, or eliminated altogether.

TravelStoreMaker.com Internet Booking Engine as additional distribution channel

If you have your own private negotiated air fares, hotel rates and any other travel content you can upload them and make them available only for your own web site visitors, or sell them also through other TravelStoreMaker.com partner sites.

The on-line availability of these fares guarantees you more revenue and quick sales. At the same time the data can be updated quickly, easily and cost efficiently, eliminating paper work.

Charter Database

TravelStoreMaker.com's charter database allows airline owners and travel agencies who have their own charter deals to upload and manage their flights, schedules, availability and rates. The charter database content is composed of flights and segments routing information, schedules, availability with the ability to block seats, and pricing information including airport taxes. The charter database booking engine interface supports XML queries and responses. When a booking is made, the respective booking engine collects customer data, including billing info and passes it back to the system to confirm the booking. It stores the reservations and decreases availability for the respective dates and flights.

When the Charter Database is used by TravelStoreMaker.com's own booking engine, the flights may be booked alone or dynamically packaged with hotels, stored in TravelStoreMaker.com's Hotels database. The Provider can define how many seats can be sold as Flights only, and how many as Flight + Hotel packages.

Hotel Database

The database can be used as a stand-alone source of information or together with the aggregated content coming from hotel providers. Any business that has special allotments or rate deals with hotels can load their contracts into the hotel database and sell hotel rooms using TravelStoreMaker.com's Internet Booking Engine or, through the use of an XML interface, provide the rates to other booking engines. Furthermore, travel agencies using this product can rely on the TravelStoreMaker.com affiliates as additional distribution channel for their hotel offers, as this content will be available to thousand affiliate sites through TravelStoreMaker.com's Internet Booking Engine.

The hotel database is suitable for hotels who wish to maintain real-time availability on their sites. Using TravelStoreMaker.com's hotels database product and support services hotels can have an on-line sales and inventory management solution that will optimize their hotel business but will also allow them to offer on their website additional travel content such as flight and car hire bookings, or hotel + flight dynamic packages.

Insurance

All travel agencies, airlines and fulfillment centers that are using TravelStoreMaker.com's Internet Booking Engine, may offer their customers insurance services as part of their travel service. The insurance option is available as a separate product integrated in the booking process.