The word extranet is a bit technical but not new, travel agencies are using this from decades. Let’s start to know about extranet in detail.
What Is Extranet
Extranet is a kind of CMS (Content Management System) where travel agencies and their suppliers manage the content and inventories. Extranet can be developed for any travel services like Flight, Hotel, Tours, Buses, etc.. but majorly extranet is famous within hoteliers and hotel suppliers.
Types Of Extranet
- Hotel Extranet
- Tour Extranet or CMS
- Flight Extranet
- Bus Extranet
- Car Extranet
Hotel Extranet
Hotel Extranet is used by travel agencies who have direct contracting with hotel and broadly sell rooms to their customers. Here I would like to inform you that the customer can be anyone like B2B, B2C or B2E. In hotel extranet website admin or hotelier can manage the hotel content like, hotel info, room types, images, amenities, meals offered by particular hotel, availability on twin, triple and quad sharing. If hotelier or website admin has entered the correct info and proper availability data then any user can book the room very easily. All big well known OTA’s like goibibo, MMT, yatra, booking.com, hotel.com, rezlive, GTA are using extranet to sell their contracted rooms with the help of this tool (Extranet). Any small or mid size agency can increase their sales, automate his all manual bookings. If you are a travel agent and need demo for hotel extranet.
Tour Extranet Or Tour CMS
Tour Extranet/CMS is widely used by tour operators. With the help of this tool, travel agencies can enter all tours info like itineraries, inclusions, exclusions, hotel details, terms and conditions, payment policy, and online availability to get bookings through the website. If you are a travel agent and need demo for Tour CMS .
Flight Extranet
Nowadays, travel agencies are more interested in buying air tickets in advance which is generally known as series fare or private fare. So the travel agents who buy the air tickets in advance they can sell their advance purchased inventories online through this flight extranet tool. Website admin can enter all the details of tickets like Flight No, Airline, Departure arrival Time, duration, available seats, fare breakup, markup, discount availability date wise etc.. If you are a travel agent and need demo for Cheap fixed departure management System .
Bus Extranet
The Travel agencies who want to build network like Red bus, Travelyaari, they use this tool. With the help of this tool, they contact bus operators and provide them login to manage their inventory’s online availability. Hence they build their own bus networks with online availability and booking management.
Car Extranet
Car Extranet also works like Bus Extranet. Website admin have rights to enter all the details and availability with price for online bookings. They can also provide one login to car driver or owner to manage their real time availability.
So we hope, above details have given you a clarity about extranet. If still you have any questions you can register and comment. We will be happy to assist you with your queries.
