// Mashlabs.Travel 2.0 Portal Builder

Software as a Service Delivery Model:

Mashlabs.Travel 2.0 Portal Builder is an open-source travel & tourism vertical enterprise portal framework. It combines a CMS based portal site builder with Internet, Intranet and Extranet access.; ERP ecommerce products catalogue for GDS and non-GDS based contents and shopping cart for dynamic packaging to upload and manage negotiated rates for cross-sell and up-sell travel products via Mashlabs.Travel trading ecosystem network; CRM with built-in email marketing and analytics modules. The portal framework includes customizable portlets for webapps, social networking modules, multi-payment gateways integration, mobile applications, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) web services Open API for every third-party content mashups you can build as value-added services; plus built-in B2B2C dynamic travel booking engines, travel meta search engines to choose from or your preferred engine.

MASHLABS.TRAVEL | Travel & Tourism Portal Solutions
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• Online Travel Agency (OTA)
• Independent Travel Agent (Extranet Access)
• Tourism Board, Destination & CVB
• Consortia & Host Agency
• Travel Wholesaler & Consolidator
• Non-GDS Niche Travel & Tour Suppliers
• Travel Management Company
• Internet Portal Publisher
• Airlines & Charter Provider
• Tour & Vacation Operator
• Hotel & Lodging Operator
• Corporate Travel Services
• Incentives & Rewards Provider
• Travel Membership Club
• Networking & Blog Sites (Web 2.0)
• Non-Profit Travel Services
• Travel Domain Assets Operator

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MASHLABS.TRAVEL | Travel Vertical Modules & Templates
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Internet, Intranet and Extranet portal access.

Use customizable designed templates or wizard-template-builder, with ability to create hundreds of possibilities of professionally designed building blocks to create a template via portlets within a portlet component, specifically for travel & tourism vertical market segmentation.

Do-it-yourself web building and design or hire us at a very affordable block-of-hours rate or choose our fixed-priced package plan for fully custom portal design and web apps development.

Flexible and easy-to-use GUI based portlets within a portlet, textile, drag and drop website building and editing features.

Built-in customizable social networking modules.

Vast network of travel wholesalers and direct suppliers to choose, from budget, moderate, luxury to ultra-luxury products category such as published fares, aggregated consolidator fares, cars, limousines, transfers, hotels, vacations, holidays, adventures and niche tours, cruises, activities, entertainment & dining, yacht charters, private jet charters and travel insurance.

Preferred suppliers / booking engine automated online application form (suppliers may approve or reject your request).

+++Pre-built booking engines and preferred wholesale suppliers network to choose from (subject to approval from suppliers – some engines are free and some may require setup fee or licensing fee).

Third-party booking engine integration place holder.

+++Third-party XML based integration (e.g. develop your own booking interface – approval process is required. We will look at it on case-to-case basis).

Third-party negotiated rates uploading, management and XML integration.

+++Amadeus, Sabre, Galileo, Worldspan multi-GDS web services integration capable (e.g. internet pseudo-city code).

Preferred suppliers commission matrix and schedule.

Preferred suppliers enabling / disabling module.

Suppliers of record contact information and look up database.

Customizable template based portlets within a portlet inventory web-database management catalog and dynamic packaging via shopping cart-booking capabilities for non-GDS travel & tourism products and services (e.g. accommodations, transfers, vacations, holidays, adventure tours, specialty cruises, activities, charters, promos & coupons and extras).

Cross-sell and up-sell products and services.

Payment gateway & merchant use – your own or suppliers or both – you will need to use suppliers merchant account for commissionable products.

Net rates or commissionable rates contents to choose from – you will need to use your own merchant account on net rates – suppliers may require you to deposit funds to be subtracted with all your bookings.

Travel deals and products content-holder. With keywords description tagging association to automate travel deals graphics, price and description coming from your preferred suppliers booking engine. And dynamically display it in your website – no more cutting/pasting to generate fresh dynamic contents.

+++Affiliate (commissionable only) program deployment – month to month subscription, no long-term contract.

+++Franchise (negotiated net rates & commissionable) program deployment – negotiate directly with suppliers. Transaction fee and setup fee is required and one-year contract.

Real-time margin/commission tracking and reporting.

Affiliate program's parent-to-child virtual hosting under one master account with unique URL feature via CNAME domain pointing.

Monthly hosting, transaction fee and revenue-share model to choose from.

Value Add Mashup Services Pipeline: Mashlabs.Travel Fulfillment & Ticketing API, Mashlabs.Travel Portal Modules & Features API, GDS Travel XML Switch, Flight Status, Weather, Mapping, Shipping (FedEx, USPS, UPS, DHL, etc.), Amazon, Recommendation & Communications, Telephony, Shopping, PPC Advertising Network, Newsletter Form/Email Services, Social Networking API's & OpenID, iTunes, Affiliate Program API's (LinkShare, CJ, etc.) and many more...

+++ Legend: third-party products/services that may require separate charges of setup, integration and licensing fees.

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Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) XML/API Web Services
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Roundtrip API (e.g. push / pull capabilities)

Travel XML / SOA integration – available, price varies depending on third-party API schemas
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Professional Services
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Travel & tourism strategic consulting services

Custom world class portal design, web apps development and integration

Economical website-build training, maintenance, support and enhancement services via block-of-hours purchase program

SEO / SEM strategic consulting - actual SEO/SEM execution maybe performed by Travel 2.0 | Strategy + Business internal personnel or client’s preferred vendor.

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Open Source Core Infrastructure & Modules
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Liferay Portal V5 & GlassFish = Sun Java Web Synergy Sun / Liferay Intitiative CMS Social Office Collaboration Benefits Technical Specs Adobe FLEX Builder 3 FLEX Design Showcase Adobe AIR ILOG Elixer BlazeDS Kuler Degrafa MooTools
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Talk To Us with your Travel 2.0 Portal requirements, to schedule an online presentation or send us an RFP to receive a proposal price-quote. Please note that it is a custom application development and requires 5 to 6 months delivery window; ideal for medium to large enterprise solutions. Mashlabs.Travel is a business unit of Travel 2.0 | Strategy + Business dba Agent I/O.