When we are going for a journey, whether it’s a holiday trip, business trip, or any other journey, we usually book the flight tickets and accommodation via travel agents. But how does it work? How come that the travel agents can book online on real time basis with so many airlines. Or how the travel agents can contact so many hotels in the world. Let’s learn to understand a bit about this matter of travel distribution. This info might be useful for us in the future when we are doing any travel products purchasing and the payment.
Mostly, all of travel arrangement is managed through travel technology platform. The technologies enable us to directly purchase travel products such flights, transfers, activities, accommodation, rentals, restaurants, and so on. This platform enables the consumer to buy these travel products from one single platform while viewing rich multimedia content about the products they are buying. It also provides real time financial transactions between the supplier and consumer in over 100 different currencies.
And what’s the procedures for us purchasing those travel products? This platform connects with the consumer through its worldwide network of online travel agencies, travel supplier web sites, travel related web sites and personal devices such as cell phones, PDAs and personal navigation systems that use its booking engine. The booking engine comes with a full suite of services such as fulfillment, insurances, customer service and financial services.