Online Hotel Booking Portal - Drive Direct Bookings, Boost Revenue & Make The Most Of Best In Class Technology

 

What Is Online Hotel Booking Portal ? And How It Is Important For Travel Industry ?  

 

We are experts when it comes to Online Hotel Booking Portal Solutions! Working with experts of hotel and hospitality industry, and after successful delivery of online booking portals for single/multiple property owners and aggregators, we can deliver the most effective booking solutions for your property!

Our Online Hotel Reservation Portal Application is one of the most advance and powerful booking portal. It has derived best of features from popular booking portals and also includes many more innovative features.

Trawex Technologies is used by travel portals worldwide to offer availability search and secure online booking to owners and operators of travel portals.

Instead of sharing commissions with affiliate networks portal operators can now own the relationship with their customers and contract hoteliers on any basis they choose. With advanced control over search groups and a fully white-labeled control center, Trawex online hotel booking portal is both easy to use and immensely powerful.

The client was looking for an online all-in-one system that can manage hotels listing, customers, booking and provide suggestions based on hotel room prices and availability to website visitors as well as his employees for quick booking with basic office automation.

 

Trawex hotel booking engine contains all the major funtions essential for high-quality online hotel reservation software
 

We designed & delivered a full-featured hotel listing portal along with features to manage hotels, rooms, facilities, reservations, prices, availability. Hotel details including address, contact, picture gallery, map, rooms, prices, availability, features, add-on services, extra bed prices, weekend pricing, discounts, etc. can be managed easily using the developed solution.

It also includes basic CRM i.e. Customer Relationship Management and Support System. Visitors can register & pay online to make reservations. The system is designed in a way that allows easy extensions to allow fully automated reservations, and allow access of portal to hotels and other agents to enhance their offering.

The hotel industry in the world thrives largely due to the growth in tourism and travel. Due to the increase in tourism with rising foreign and domestic tourists, the hotel sector is bound to grow.

There is a rise in spending hotels in India to cater to most of the populace who look for a moderate stay.

Worldwide organizations are likewise progressively looking at setting up such hotels. Imbalance in increase in visitors both household and remote not been upheld with an equivalent number of rooms is an idle wellspring of chance for development.

With a reliably developing middle class and expanding discretionary income, the travel industry and cordiality segments are seeing sound development and records for 7.5 percent of every nation's GDP.

In the case of the Indian hospitality industry, a report from KPMG shows that the hospitality sector is expected to grow at 16.1 percent CAGR to reach ?2,796.9 thousand crores in 2022.

The hospitality division incorporates a wide assortment of exercises inside the service part and is a significant activity supplier both direct and indirectly.

The sector attracts the most FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) inflow and is the most important net foreign exchange earners for the country.

It additionally contributes altogether to indirect tax income at the state and central level which incorporates incomes from VAT, Service Tax, and Luxury Tax, and so on.

The revolution of the E-Commerce industry boosts the immense growth and potential business opportunities of the online tourism market. The developing on the web travel booking operators has turned into a worldwide phenomenon and speaks to one-third of total worldwide travel sales.

In the hotel and tourism sector, the Internet is changing the way the conventional elements of marketing strategies are strategically determined and operationally introduced.

The 4Ps (product, price, promotion and place) – the classical elements of the marketing mix – are being adjusted to the features of the Internet, as the most important communication infrastructure of modern times.

The new 4Ps now comprise participation, personalization, predictive modeling, and peer-to-peer communities. In this respect, the greatest change has occurred in the distribution and promotion of tourism products and services, while lesser changes have also taken place in the pricing and creation of new tourism products.

For the hospitality industry, the online booking business is a logical way to extend bookings to their central reservation centers. Third-party travel companies have gained a large amount of visitors looking for a one-stop-shop for all hotels in the city.

The recent economic crisis is causing a huge decrease in demand and an increase in the rate at which hotels are participating with online distribution vendors.

Online hotel booking is becoming a very popular method for booking hotel rooms. Travelers can book hotels from home utilizing online security to make sure their protection and financial data and utilizing a few online travel agents to analyze costs and facilities at various hotels.

The advantage of utilizing global distribution channels is that they give a single database from which all booking sources draw prompt room accessibility and room rates. Earlier travelers contacted hotels directly or used a travel agency to make a room reservation.

Nowadays, a traveler can make a reservation on hotel websites that give them pictures and virtual tours to make their choices. Room tariffs are shown on the websites along with deals and discounts.

Non-franchise hotels require a "booking engine" application to be attached to their website to permit persons to make online reservations. Travel agents also approach these sites and may even confirm room reservations directly.

Some websites specialize in searches for the best deals. Hotels have the challenge of maintaining accurate room inventories and rates.

Large hotel networks normally have an immediate association with the aircraft global distribution system (GDS) (Saber, Galileo, Amadeus, and Worldspan) that thus gives hotel data directly to the many travel agents who buy into these systems.

Individual hotels and small hotel chains may not afford the cost of a subscription to the GDSs and rely on other companies to provide the connection. A few large online travel locales are as a result of travel agencies.

Hotels send their information "downstream" to travel agent websites and give commission to those travel agents who made reservations from travelers who connected to their website.

Hotels use several of the distribution channels to ensure full occupancy. In such cases, individual agreements and tariff structures are negotiated with each distribution channel. These days, it has turned out to be basic for hotels to coordinate with all inventory and supply channels so their visitors can make exact online bookings.

 

Hotel Inventory

 

A hotel's inventory and rates are managed mostly by revenue management department centrally. Before a hotel publishes rates and inventory to OTA's they always rely on the Property Management System (PMS) data to decide how many rooms and which rates will be published.

To optimize Internet sales is a crucial process and ultimately optimizes and increases revenue. By synchronization, process hotels can set the inventory, rates, and rules and have these published automatically to the hotel's website as well as to the various Internet Distribution Channels in use.

In other words, supporting the currently offered software solutions that in terms of the exponential growth of online sales in the total sales of the hotel is crucial; investment in information and communication technology and the use of modern on-line sales channels are necessary not only for the successful business but also for the survival of the hotel market.

By analyzing the data collected by research it is proven that the number of reservations made through the Internet is growing concerning direct sales. Since the OTA partners are more prevalent because of their financial power to invest heavily in marketing campaigns on the Internet, hotels are forced to cooperate with them to be visible on the Internet.

The automated synchronized process saves lots of time and money. This way managing rates and inventory for Internet sales would be done from the hotel's property management system.

Therefore there would be no need to log into all types of third party websites the hotel has a contract with or Channel Managers to manage rooms, rates and inventory.

Any changes to rules, inventory or rates would be automatically synchronized with the OTA and other third party websites.

Also, reservations made by any channel would be automatically integrated into the PMS in real-time ensuring that the PMS inventory is always up to date and what is extremely important is that it shows the correct view of the hotel's occupancy.

Reservation agents would no longer have to worry about pending reservations that have to be processed or updates that need to be done before knowing the exact occupancy situation.

 

Trawex Online Hotel Booking Portal

 

Hotel Booking Portal is a web service providing online functionality of searching and booking hotels. This web facility makes the area of one's web-based booking website more extensive.

It allows you to provide consumers with more options to choose their ideal stay place in a particular city. Thus it enhances your business beyond the limit.

Business Expansion implementing our Hotel booking portal you and your consumers will immediately have access to an extensive inventory of hotels.

With the accommodation options available so vast, and the booking interface so user-friendly, the Trawex Hotel Booking System will automatically attract people to your website, increasing your customer base effortlessly and authorize you to focus on promoting new business through other avenues.

Customer Satisfaction for People finds arranging a holiday a complex task, and so it's our job to make the process as simple as possible every step of the way.

By providing your consumers with a single platform that enables them to search and book a large number of hotels, you will be making their lives simpler and exceeding their expectations.

Time-saving to booking hotels will become a much quicker, slicker process, due to a user-friendly interface and instant confirmation.

You'll no longer need to enter data physically on multiple occasions, as our portal will hold all the details and information you need in one place. Cost savings will be evident in many areas.

The skill to book instantly, with real-time pricing and availability on display will save a great deal of time and reduce operational costs.

Integration with the Trawex online hotel booking portal will give you access to all the suppliers and hotels we've partnered with for a one-time fee. This implies you won't need to spend anything on the system or content development anytime later on.

The Trawex online hotel booking portal will allow you to integrate all the hotel-related services we offer with your systems, databases, and websites.

This will allow you to host a web booking engine that requests real-time information from Trawex and immediately displays the results for use by the customer. This can be designed in any way you please, and a payment gateway can also be incorporated should this be required.

 

Trawex Hotel API

 

To expert the best deals available in the market, travelers tend to search several portals and halt at one that provides them with the best result that they are looking for. To decode the demands of travelers, there is a requirement from the side of the travel portals to know what the travelers are looking for.

Hotel API is one of the main inquiry arrangements, that enables the hotels to give the best and most ideal indexed lists to the travelers so they can do what needs to be done with the portal and book their way with the arrangement.

The software solution, the portal gets the real-time search data and gets to know about the requirement of the travelers regarding the hotel booking. This may include the rooms, landing-place and the budget of the traveler.

Considering the need from the travelers, an ideal travel portal should direct it to the desired results and the hotels that give the needed solutions. Trawex offers the best opportunity for the travel portals to grow their business by providing reasonable and effective Hotel API Integration solution.

API in simple terms is a way for one company to legitimately access the products of another. At Trawex, when we provide you with access to our Hotel API, and once it is integrated into your website, it will allow your customers and your business access to a great variety of services.

Trawex hotel booking API has tied up with thousands of hotels in India, Which includes small guest house to 5-star hotels. Many travel portals in the world using Trawex API. Our API has been outlined to cover all real-time requirements of small-medium travel agents, portal and guests.

Our customers can compare the price of different services from different hotels and make the right decision for guests to the reservation. In case a visitor needs to cancel a booking, you can cancel the booking easily anytime. Our API sends an acknowledgment of the reservation to the email.

Having a good API provides you powerful integration, connectivity, and maximum value out of the programs you're using and the information you have. They speak to a way of thinking of "integration" in the most genuine feeling of the word.

It acknowledges the way that a large number of the applications, projects, and systems we use are interlinked and that there are gigantic conceivable outcomes in further connecting these systems.

Instead of walling off programs from program and users from their data, we should be encouraging users to use their data and digital programs and tools in tandem with each other. This should not exclusively be permitted, for nothing out of pocket, but should be effectively designed for.

 

Benefits of Online Hotel Booking Portal & Hotel API

 

• Business Expansion: After implementing our booking portal, you and your clients will immediately have access to an extensive collection of hotels. With the convenience alternatives accessible so immense, and the booking interface so easy to understand, the TBO hotel API will consequently draw in individuals to your site, expanding your client base easily and allowing you to focus on promoting new business through other avenues.

 

• Customer Satisfaction: People discover orchestrating an occasion a complex task, as we must make the procedure as basic as conceivable at all times. By offering your clients with a single platform that allows them to search and reserve a large number of hotels, you will be making their lives simpler and exceeding their expectations.

 

• Time-saving: Booking hotels will become a much quicker, slicker process, due to a user-friendly interface and instant confirmation. You'll never again need to enter information physically on different events, as our API will hold every one of the subtleties and data you need in one spot.

 

• Cost savings: Cost savings will be evident in many areas. There is no need for software, so no installation or maintenance will be required. The capability to reserve instantly, with real-time pricing and availability on display will save a great deal of time and decrease operational costs.
  
  
  Integration with the TBO hotel API will give you access to all the suppliers and hotels we have collaborated with for just a onetime fee. This implies you won't need to spend anything on the system or substance improvement anytime later on.

 

• Personalized service: The Online Hotel Booking Portal will allow you to integrate all the hotel-related services we offer with your systems, databases, and websites.
  
  This will enable you to host an online reservation engine that requests real-time data from TBO and instantly displays the results for use by the clients. This can be designed in any way you please, and a payment gateway can also be incorporated should this be required.

 

From various researches in online hotel booking portal system, it is evident that many respondents may choose to rent a property instead of a hotel room which is indicating that the shared economy accommodation aided by online websites can be done in a full-fledged manner more than what is prevalent now in the world.

Booking of hotels online has been increased over the past five years due to the convenience and the time-saving factor which has led to some global hotel booking portals open up its venture. The domestic hotel websites must be prepared to take up a stiff competition from the foreign-based websites.

As far as the information about the hotels that are being provided by the hotel booking portals, a few respondents have put forth their suggestions that, sometimes the information about the hotel is deceptive.

To curb this, the website personnel can conduct a half-yearly or annual visits to the hotels which are a part of their option amidst thousands of other hotels, to monitor whether the information provided in the website is true or false information.

Considering the huge growth of technology in the hotel industry, it essential for the people who do not know how to book hotels online, to be aware of such online websites and make good use of the technology. The suggestion would be to advertise more about the presence of these online websites across various media.

 

Online Hotel Booking Portal system requirements

 

• Suitability:

 

Hotel booking portal system should be suitable for administrators, people who manage the system, workers and, obviously, guests, who use this. For administrators and laborers, it shouldn't be hard to make, view, update and erase information.
For visitors, it should be clear enough in use, with the goal that they don't get frightened off by hard and difficult to get controls and structure.

 

• Reliability:

 

The system should be able to keep working even in case of a partial failure, regardless of whether it implies that the general execution is adversely influenced.

Faults should be automatically detected and revealed in the event that they go outside the normal outcome. Technical support, for this reason, must be available to react at any moment, so that the system could function.

System should have more than one server, on the off chance that 1 of them crashes and a couple has various duplicates of information on the off chance that the system falls so a similar data can be access from a better place. In reverse recovery and forward recovery should be accessible.

 

• Learnability:

 

A normal client should have the option to figure out how to utilize the system in a short time frame, with the goal that he won't give on the system and go to another. System should be attractive for the clients with the goal that they would invest more energy in the site looking for data or some other need they may have.

Longer time spent on a website increases the chances of a reservation. Being memorable is important for prospects or when a user is picking between systems.

 

• Maintainability:

 

System has to be easily maintained and updated. For those goals the best option would be a special administrative page, with preprogrammed functions, which in the long run will prove useful for the business a whole, since it will save a lot of time. The regulatory page is easy to know, learn and use.

 

• Performance:

 

Each search should be done in less than 1 second and the average page load shouldn’t be over 0.5 seconds. Waiting too long can frustrate the user, so he might leave for another system. Software should have enough equipment assets to have the option to withstand peak traffic hours and get by in the event of a halfway system failure.

 

• Interoperability:

 

A hotel reservation system is a convoluted system that not just the hotel itself utilizes, so its interoperability must be extremely high. In present-day practice, each significant hotel is associated with the worldwide reservation system kept running by world top organizations.

They exchange data, and so on. Another perspective is having all the littler organizations that are on the hotel an area associated with it. For example, the hotel café and shops would require data about the amount of individuals, their age and duration of their stay.

New patterns in web booking are changing the online market and travel. New advancements make it feasible for guests to Websites to contrast costs in different goals concurring with an assortment of criteria.

It is conceivable to consolidate contributions; modern Web systems prescribe which move to make and they propose the best decisions; hotel visitors can rate hotel services and facilities and advise other travelers about spending holidays in a specific facility. The hotel business is getting increasingly focused and complex every day.

Advancing hotel revenue management procedures has turned into a specialized assignment. Picking a reasonable value positioning technique for the hotel's rate strategy will help reinforce the hotel's value perception to customers.

The only viable option for the hotel industry in the future is to weaken its dependence upon the OTA channel by developing direct online distribution channels which will ensure hoteliers with a long-term competitive advantage on the market.

The direct online channel should always be at the heart of the Internet marketing and distribution strategies of any hotel company. Guests booking through hotel Web pages are more loyal, generate more revenue and are in the habit of traveling more often.

This is the way how it is supposed to work, but with OTA's investment in marketing campaigns hotels are forced to spread their rates and inventory to Third Party websites to drive volume to their hotel.

Nevertheless, a huge job remains to every hotel to stay present and competitive on the market because the web booking increases rapidly and is more and more present on the Croatian market every day.

Still, it is difficult to adjust to today's world standards, because of outdated technology, which is due to the current economic situation more difficult to finance.

 

Key Features:

 

• Full CMS Features to manage all sections of the portal from Multi-User Administrator Panel

• Dynamic Property & Hotelier Management with an unlimited number of hoteliers, property, rooms, etc.

• Allows direct modifications in reservation request by admin

• Manages Customer Payments, Receipts, Refunds for Cancellation and Credit management

• Configurable Email & SMS Notifications to Customers, Hotels & Admin

• Supports SSL Certificate for Secured Shopping Assurance