provider of technology solutions for leisure travel, Rio Grande do Sul Travel Explorer launched a free software for travel agencies. The WTX One can be accessed by travel agents to conduct research and booking of air tickets, lodging, rental cars and packages.
Alberto Galbeno, director of Travel Explorer. Photo:. Baguette
Every sale made by the tool, the Travel Explorer receives a fee from suppliers, while the agency does not have any cost. The company expects that 1500 companies adopt the platform in a year.
For lodging, the Travel Explorer uses the data center UOL Diveo.
The WTX One streamlines the creation of budgets and also allows online payments, marking seats, receiving e-tickets and vouchers, reporting, and other features.
“The travel agent can monitor the online operation of its customers travel, receiving automatic notifications at each stage, as approval for payment voucher and shipping, “explains company director Alberto Galbeno.
Each agency can submit an unlimited number of users on the system, which provides analytical reports for agents, informing larger transactions, best-selling destinations, and other data.
According Galbeno, the advantage of the platform is to have all available information on same platform, standardizing documents and to search deals.
“Today agencies use different systems at the same time to find offers from different carriers. The login and search processes in several platforms end up hurting productivity and passing to the client many despadronizados files “, explains Galbeno.
The agency may also hire additional modules WTX platform, as a site for sale online and the application for sales by phone and tablet. Each platform costs $ 2500 for mounting. Then the monthly fee to keep the site is R $ 275 and the app, US $ 250.
“The multichannel sales is growing in Brazil, mainly by mobile devices, and we are already prepared to meet also these demands, “he added.
According Galbeno, 23% of search for travel related information in Brazil are made by smartphones today. In 2013, this figure was 11%.
Through the WTX One, the travel agent will have access to more than 900 airlines, 200,000 hotels, thousands of tour packages and major car rental companies .
The Explorer Travel is headquartered in Porto Alegre and is present in São Paulo. Besides Brazil, also operates in 12 other countries.
Since its foundation in 2000, accounts for more than 1000 tour companies as customers in Brazil and Latin America.
Along with Argo IT and Connect-c, the Explorer Travel so Clic Holding Company, which had 35% of its operation acquired by the fund of DLM Invista investments in early 2014.
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