OTA means; Online Travel Agency, earning money with an online travel business involves leveraging various strategies. These include commissions from bookings, service fees, affiliate marketing, and selling bundled packages. Building a strong online presence, offering personalised travel planning, and collaborating with partners can also significantly boost your income. This detailed guide will show you exactly how to start a travel business. Seeing constant photos from my travel adventures on your Facebook or Instagram feeds makes it look like a dream job. After all, I get paid to travel the world! I admit it’s a pretty dream profession. So today I wanted to share a useful guide for how to get started travel business. Because that’s the first step if you ever want to become a travel business professional!
We have four OTA solutions. Those are Flight, Hotel, Tour, and Visa. Our flight and hotel booking engine connects via APIs, which helps to search real availability, prices, and booking. On another hand, Tour and Visa solutions are uploading active systems. Travel portal development software is a comprehensive and powerful web-based online booking system, designed for the travel industry especially for travel management companies, destination management companies, travel aggregators, B2B B2C travel agencies, tour operators, and home-based travel agents.
Our OTA Development Features:
- We will set up your OTA on your domain or sub-domain.
- Flight & Hotel Search engine API setup
- Responsive layout with 100% mobile compatibility.
- Easy and User-Friendly UI
- B2C& B2B Modules.
- Payment gateway of your choice.
- Connect your inventory to your own OTA.
- Real-Time Availability, Booking & Cancellation
- Mark-up and Discount Management
- Balance Management System
- CRM data and Customer Management System
- Agent Management System
- Email & SMS Integration
- Accounts Management System
- Admin And Customer Dashboard
- Multi-Currency
- Live Chat Integration
- Mobile APPS Development Service Included
- You can customize your OTA as per your wish
What is an online travel portal or OTA?
Online travel portals, also known as online travel agents (OTAs), are websites like Expedia, Booking.com, and Tripadvisor. OTAs compare flight and hotel prices, while tour portals list tours and products, and visa portals provide visa service control. ZooFamily offers a wide range of flight tickets, hotel rooms, and tours for OTAs, making us a popular choice for travel portal development.
Which is the best travel portal in Bangladesh?
There are a few companies in Bangladesh that provide travel technology and solutions. We specialise in OTA Software development and solutions. Interested individuals or companies can contact us for travel technology and solutions. Our solutions are customisable to suit your business module. You can also contact Zoo Technology Company for your OTA development.
How much does it cost to build a travel website?
A travel portal with basic features would cost less than one with advanced features. A travel website with simple functionality usually costs around $3500, with the cost increasing for medium to high complexity apps. However, a white label price is comparably low, around $650.
How do I integrate travel API on my website?
To begin using travel APIs, developers must integrate them first. This involves discussing and signing the terms and conditions with the travel API provider. Once the API is implemented, users of third-party resources can connect to the system and begin searching for details. Additionally, you can purchase our flight and hotel APIs.
What is Travel API Integration?
The Travel API is a web service that combines the best travel deals and content from global travel suppliers like Hotel API, Flight API, and Tour API. When implemented, a user of a third-party resource can connect to the system and begin searching for details. For more information about our flight and hotel APIs, please visit our website.
How Do Online Travel Agencies Work?
Online Travel Agents work with those terms:
- Low-cost method of selling Flight, Hotel, and Tour services
- Impartial reviews give customers the confidence to book
- Users can easily compare various costs in one search
- Reduced online marketing spend as OTAs invest in advertising to attract potential customers
Here Are Some Points You Have To Consider When Starting An Online Travel Agency.
- Register the name of your agency and, if applicable, take a license as per your local laws.
- Try to tag an IATA member or a travel agent who has travel APIs & IATA.
- Gain more knowledge about the travel industry, particularly the nice you want to concentrate on.
- Get your travel website designed by a professional company like zoo Travel Technology (Which has in-house travel inventory & technology).
- Do marketing with different offers & deals which suites on your business terms.
- Utilize the power of tactics as per your business modules.
- Create a good social media presence and brand.
We have:
- 12+ Successful years of working with travel inventory & technology.
- A lot of Successfully Completed Projects.
- Professional and Experienced Team.
- Multiple IATA and APIs connected with OTA.
- Full IATA commission provides to our business partner.
- Dedicated Support Team.
- Timely Delivery.
- Technically Strong System.
Flights API
Our flight API connected more than 750+ airlines, including GDS carriers, and low-cost carriers (LCCs), connecting various destinations in 170+ countries. This flight API is connected to Travelport, Sabre API, 1 Indian LCCs API, And a few individual airlines and travel agent’s APIs. Our flight API price is affordable for a person or company. The price we are offering is only 650$ for Flight API. Our API covered almost all airlines around the globe. You can check our demo: View Demo
Hotels API
A total of 8,35,000+ accommodations, including hotels, motels, villas, and hostels, are available on our travel distribution platform. You can add a property as per your wish with our system. We selling our Hotel API only for 650$. We believe our Hotel API price is affordable for a person or company. Our Hotel API is very famous in the global travel market. We are providing very quality service with prices. Here you can check the demo: View Demo
Visa and Tour Portal
Our booking portal, built with PHP-Laravel, allows administrators to upload booking data from the website, while users can book it from the user panel. The entire system relies on the business module, which is implemented by a developer on a platform called the Customs Booking Panel. For instance, our Tour and Visa portals are built using Customs Booking Panels.
APIs Active Portal
If you want to make an APIs functional website then we will create an APIs active system. where you can activate your hotel booking APIs. And with that API you can receive live inventory data. And a user can book a room or flight from the system. The investor company can choose the API supplier for their OTA (Online Travel Agency). Our Flight and Hotel solution are APIs active portal where you will get APIs booking system.
Upload Active Portal
Upload active portal is a functional website where from the admin panel the admin can upload products like tours, visa assistance, or other services. By uploading from the admin panel the inventory will be live. And from the website and a user can book the inventory or service. Our tour and visa solution is an upload active portal where you will get an uploading travel booking system.
Travel Website Development Price
How we provide all service and packages
Who will connect API to your travel portal and makes a B2B or B2C website for you? zooIT (Information Technology) company doing this work with a charge. here are company details and price details:
- zoo Travel Technology team working with travel technology and solutions, They are a member of BASIS.
- Airways office working with all airline flights and GDS API, which means flight inventory. They are an IATA travel agent.
We believe very soon all the travel businesses will go through online. So we encourage this module to those who understand a website and online travel business module! And for travel technology partnership details click here.Online Travel Agent – OTA Community stands for travel business partnership. It’s a group by zooFamily, MRzoo invited all of members behalf of online travel business training and partnership. Here you you will find some of his videos, what is all about online travel business:
- Travel Agency Software | OTA
- Travel Business Partnership
- Travel Business Training
- Online Travel Agency | OTA Development
What does OTA community stand for?
OTA community Objectives:
- To share knowledge, updates and experiences related to OTA.
- Discuss problems and solutions.
- OTA & APIs Advice.
- To build mutual support & network.
Who can join the group:
- Travel agents
- OTA platform users and service providers
- Tour operators, aggregators and API integrators
- Travel tech entrepreneurs
- OTA interested individuals or corporate
What you can get:
- OTA Setup Gide
- Operation Tips
- New API / supplier discussions
- Payment gateway information & integration
- Travel industry news and updates
- Travel business partnership opportunities