The airline sales historically has been purely seat sales, by and large this pattern continues today but By offering hotels and travel packages, airlines can further increase their ancillary business.

The growth in the demand for additional travel products, such as hotels and rent a cars, by passengers has added substantial revenue implications for the airlines. As a result of such change in travel buying patterns, airlines are offering holiday/travel packaging to an array of ancillary products. Though hotel booking is a major feature of individual passengers for tourism, it is also a value add to corporate customers who organize business travel for their executives such as to attend conferences etc.

AccelAero Holidays was designed to assist passengers with their non-air travel arrangements, it is a flexible, easy to use, integrated booking system that seamlessly works with the CRS to allow passengers to view and book other services such as accommodation, rent a car etc. alongside their air bookings. The front end is smart and streamlined to maximise conversions and can be integrated with the process of internet bookings of the airline.

The system has the enhanced capability to combine offerings so that customers can enjoy a true tailor made package. 3rd party retail products such as Octopus are directly linked to airline’s own contracts and are be easily managed from the administrator module. Customers can select fixed packages or define own from a wide range of destinations and a variety of holidays such as leisure or business.

A definite advantage over other booking engines is that AccelAero Holidays can query multiple hosts for airline seats at the same time, including the GDSs; making it a very efficient system for tourism companies. It can also manage several commissions’ structures for sub agents and contractors.

Other unique feature of the system is the ability to apply for online visa through an agency in a secure environment.

AccelAero Holidays offers the following key highlights through its comprehensive set of features and functions.

• Four-step booking process – Build itinerary, update customer information, payment, confirmation
• Build your own holidays (For the experienced traveler)
• Pre-packaged holidays – Bring out the best activities/ accommodation in every destination
  • Packaged by theme
  • Special offers
• Single booking – There is no need to make a separate booking for the air services provider.
• Single document reference for all bookings – Customer will only need an ID and the voucher issued from AccelAero Holidays. There will be no need to carry stacks of paper for the airline, hotel and transfers.
• Back-office burden reduced – All communication for confirming/ reconfirming services with the supplier is handled by AccelAero Holidays, thereby reducing the workload for the admin staff.
• One-click conversion of quotations to bookings – The customer can ask for ten quotations. Yet once he decides on one, booking it is a single-click job.
• Fact sheets – Maintain detailed information about destinations, cities, hotels and services in order to offer a better service to the customer.
• Third-party integration – Can integrate with any third-party service provider with minimal effort
• Multiple-currency support
• Supplier portal – Suppliers can maintain details of the services they offer, taking the data entry burden off the admin staff.
• Agent portal – Make and modify bookings
• Application – Web driven with an easy-to-use interface