Travel Agents can provide solutions to a range of traveler’s needs, such as flights and hotels, but they generally have a very limited number of options when it comes to offering tours and attractions. This limitation is even more acute when you consider that Travel Agents have access to and are in a commercial relationship with the exact people who are looking to book tours and attractions – tourists.
Travel Agents can leverage their existing relationship with their customers to also sell a range of tours and attractions using either of the following solutions:
Integration of booking engine into Travel Agent Booking Process
When a customer books a flight online from a travel agent, at the final stage of booking they can be taken to the iTicketing booking engine (integrated with the same look and feel as the travel agent’s website) which offers the ability to book tours and attractions in Israel. Any bookings made through the engine would entitle the travel agent to a commission.
Real time bookings for customers
If a person to person meetings takes place with customers, then we can set up a back-end log-in to the iTicketing engine, so that the tours and attractions could be sold directly to customers when they are purchasing their flight ticket etc. This can be seen as an extra service offered to customers by the Travel Agent, since it enables customers to plan out and pay for their full itenierary in advance, before they have even set foot on the plane! Again, ny bookings made through the engine would entitle the travel agent to a commission.