e Travel Pro System

Planning a vacation or traveling no longer means plodding through piles of brochures and endless hours at the travel agent. With the use of the internet, most successful holiday and vacation businesses function online. This not only reaches out to a greater segment of people but also enables greater visibility of services.

Online booking systems
Online booking systems and web booking tools not only make it easier for travelers to make travel and hotel reservations but the increased visibility and ease of transaction greatly increases the value of the business.

Web enabling your tourism business
Making your travel business accessible online is a key step in giving your business that winning edge. Be it a tourism portal, an airline reservation system, a hotel website , a travel agent website or a tour operator website, web enabling your business will show immediate returns on investment.

Outsource your tourism/holiday/vacation website development
At Stylus, we have developed custom made websites for holiday and vacation businesses. The websites we have developed make it possible for different holiday resort business and proprietors to publish their own micro home pages within the larger site. With separate login features for the customer, proprietor and administrator, the websites we develop make it possible advertise and promote your holiday business. With search options that make it easier for the customer to narrow down on a selected holiday spot, the websites can also enable online bookings, tariffs and availability.

Given below is a complete feature list for a holiday/travel website.

Complete Feature List for our Travel Website.

Users

• Customer
• Administrator

The Customer

The Customer will have the option to search for holiday or vacation spots. The criteria for the search will include

• Country & Region
• Specific Search criteria: The customer can further detail his or her requirements like Dates of stay, pets, smoking/non smoking, children, laundry facilities etc.
• Results Page: This Page would return data based on the search details set by the Customer
• The customer can also check tariffs, availability and payment methods.

The Administrator

• The administrator will have options that enable him to add or delete micro sites for new proprietors.
• The administrator will be have the option to view a list of properties that accept online payments and a list of properties for which reservations can only be made through an email form.
• The administrator will have the option to add New Locations, Edit Existing Locations and Delete Locations. He can also add, delete or edit proprietor as well as customer information.

Navigation

• The User will be able to access any section of the site they wish
• They will be able to access any other section of the site just as easily from deep within the site as they could upon entry to the site
• The portal will provide hierarchal search facility over 3 screens. These are type of holiday, geographic location and specific search criteria.
• Inputting the search criteria will be achieved by using a combination of drop down menus and checkboxes.

Online Payment

• The portal will facilitate online payments for holiday accommodation allowing people to book their properties there and then.
• Once a booking has been made a receipt will be automatically emailed to the customer & to the administrator.

Online Availability

• Visitors to the website will be able to check in near real time the availability of the property they are interested in.
• If a booking is made online & paid for, the availability database is automatically updated
• If a reservation is made by telephone or fax the database will be updated manually through a web interface.
• Availability databases can handle multiple properties owned by a single owner.

We have experience of designing professional travel websites that bring in more visitors and generate more business for your agency. Websites designed by us for Travel Agents and Tour Operators enjoy high search engine positioning for specific search terms that customers are likely to use. Our designs are classy yet functional. They help increase the number of website visitors, and also increase the conversion rate from website visitors to enquiries or leads. Over the years, we know what makes your website come high in search engines such as Google, and know how to design your website so that there is a higher likelihood of visitors becoming customers.