// Travel 2.0 | Strategy Internal News
11.04.2009
HIRE AN EXPERT: Learning the Complex Layers of Online Travel & Tourism Business
If you are a startup, small to medium travel and tourism provider, you’ll probably fall into a group, which lacks financial resources or technology knowledge base to transform your organization into the modern age of travel and tourism ecommerce.
Selecting the right travel & tourism technology automation that fits with your ideal business and revenue model is already a challenge even with decent budget, but much more if the budget is tight or no budget at all. ONLINE TRAVEL MARKETING, PLANNING, EXECUTION AND BUDGETING KNOW HOW ARE MAJOR ASPECTS THAT MOST ENTREPRENEURS ARE ALSO UNDERESTIMATING TO HAVING A SUCCESSFUL ONLINE TRAVEL STOREFRONT.
Lacking financial resources must not deter someone’s determination to have a successful online travel & tourism business. Lacking financial resources can be augmented with an industry and sector technology and business knowledge base, but most small to medium travel & tourism providers has very limited internal resources on this aspect.
What can be done without the two essential requirements to launch or transform your travel business into the modern age of ecommerce? Persistence and creativity comes to mind of few good sign of true entrepreneurship. Augment your internal resources with external expertise such hiring a domain expert or consultant to guide or aid your online travel business & tourism venture, by investing AT LEAST 20 HOURS PER MONTH in hiring an outside consultant can provide you a much needed knowledge base without spending years of research learning on your own. Plus a consultant has global network of clients and partners that you can easily tap into. For example, a supplier’s (be it products or technology) partnership maybe consummated at least 6 months to a year time doing it on your own, while the consultant may facilitate and negotiate on your behalf way less time than that.
An outside consultant may refer a business prospect to your organization and much much more. If you fall into the small and medium travel & tourism business and have similar predicament, then contact me at your convenience for a FREE initial consultation to discuss your requirements and provide high level solution scenarios.
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9.08.2008
Travel 2.0 | Strategy announces that it has established the Travel & Tourism SEO Practice-of-Excellence team in the Philippines, to leverage its domain expertise and hands-on experienced in the online travel and tourism vertical; to economically support their ever growing client-base that uses their portfolio of third-party and proprietary products automation.
8.18.2008
Travel 2.0 | Strategy has disclosed that they've signed up Zajel Travel of Qatar to develop a sophisticated online travel portal for consumer and agent alike, using Mashlabs.Travel 2.0 Portal Builder solution. Zajel Travel direct to consumer portal will be powered by a prominent XML based affiliate booking engine and projected to be launched towards the end of October 2008.
7.31.2008
Travel 2.0 | Strategy has launched its proprietary Mashlabs.Travel 2.0 Portal Builder under Mashlabs.Travel (a separate site will be up soon) product and service brand. "The idea is to provide travel and tourism providers the ability to deploy an enterprise portal quality online travel and tourism storefront with plug and play third-party portfolio of booking engines selection for seamless integration, professional designed, and economical deployment." In addition, Mashlabs.Travel provides customizable portlets within a portlet’ ready-made templates and wizard-template-builder. Mashlabs.Travel 2.0 Portal Builder's CMS/CRM/ERP eCommerce modules and components include wide array of customizable social networking web application mashups, mobile services, travel and tourism inventory database management systems to upload and manage non-GDS negotiated rates for dynamic packaging, cross-selling and up-selling it with GDS based products, thus Mashlabs.Travel becoming an ecosystem for travel and tourism products and services. "On top of it, Mashlabs.Travel leverages a mature and stable open source Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) for push and pull XML web services capabilities." Mashlabs.Travel web services roadmap includes GDS Travel XML Switch offering. Mashlabs.Travel plans to aggregate all third-party XML’s to build its own proprietary unified Travel & Tourism XML Switch, which will pave the way to build its own drag and drop Interactive Visual Mapping Booking Engine and making Mashlabs.Travel an Open Travel API Trading Marketplace (tripXML) for selling and buying travel products and services. Mashlabs.Travel is currently accepting and developing custom portal development for its client base using the Mashlabs.Travel 2.0 Portal Builder framework and eventually will offer a self-service or do-it-yourself portal building via Software as a Service (SaaS) subscription model to end users and Reseller Partner Programs for developers and designers, soon.
