Asiatravel.com has launched Asia’s first online wholesale system with flight, hotel, tour and attraction packages with instant confirmation into various destinations worldwide. Travel agents using this system can help their customers save up to 35 per cent as compared to booking the same components of the package individually, while still earn a commission at the same time.
A product of 18 years of ground experience in the travel industry, engagement with travel suppliers worldwide, and a deep understanding of the supply chain, TAcentre.com is the company’s newest investment, and answer to the ever-demanding industry of travel and tours. Offering a robust proprietary system to travel agencies and travel suppliers the world over, the portal helps its users improve their customer service efficiency, increase work productivity, reduce communication costs, eliminate currency exchange fluctuations, as well as enlarge product offerings, allowing them to improve their overall business.TAcentre.com aims to address today’s fast-paced and mobile society, where discerning travellers expect response and confirmation in the quickest possible manner.According to Asiatravel.com CEO Boh Tuang Poh: “We built this booking engine after extensive research and consultation with customers, travel agents and travel suppliers. We are very encouraged by the initial response during the trial period, with customers booking packages for up to nine persons in just a single transaction, entirely online. Despite consistent economic turbulence, the world’s international tourist arrivals have been growing and expected to cross the one-billion mark this year. We hope this product will benefit travel agencies as we believe they will continue to play an important role in a growing travel industry. As a home grown technologically driven travel agency in Asia, we hope this will help the travel trade industry increase its productivity and profitability.”Singapore’s NATAS CEO Robert Khoo commented: “We are delighted to see such initiatives undertaken by our members to strengthen and improve operational efficiencies in the industry. As lead times are getting shorter and travelers are making last-minute travel decisions, this online wholesale system changes the way bookings are handled, especially for over-the-counter transactions at retail agencies.”Free to all travel agents, users can book hotels, tours, and attraction tickets, or as a bundled land or flight travel package. Further, TAcentre.com is user-friendly, and is available in the user’s choice of local currency. Not to mention, it offers availability and instant confirmation apart from the many unique features it brings for its users.Aspiring to become the one-stop travel booking platform for all travel agencies, TAcentre.com offers over 100,000 travel products readily available in the system, users can choose from a whole gamut of flights of network and budget carriers, hotels, resorts, tours, attraction tickets, as well as all-inclusive travel packages to long-haul destinations like Europe and North & South Americas.