120 More Travel Agencies Adopt RWA’s Booking Engines

Thursday, 09 May, 2002 0

In the last two months, a further 120 German travel agencies have incorporated RWA’s Internet Booking Engines(IBEs) into their web sites. This brings the total number of German travel agencies using the RWA developed booking engines to 650.

The booking engines for scheduled flights, car rental and last minute package holidays are being used by the German Tour Operator Frosch Touristik (FTI). The engines provide comprehensive booking capabilities and have been recognised by German Travel Agencies as providing easy to use, quick access to availability and prices prior to booking.

In addition, each booking engine is:

Highly tailorable

Fully re-brandable to support ‘white labelling’

Multi-currency

Multi-language

This means that individual travel agencies are able to quickly and easily incorporate the booking engines into their web site and have ‘their own’ version of the booking engine containing:

Their own or their agency chain’s branding – colour schemes, logos etc.

Their own agency details e.g. address and contact information

The booking engines also feature a comprehensive web-based management facility that allows:

FTI to manage the roll-out of the booking engines to hundreds of travel agencies

Each travel agency to easily manage and maintain their own branding and agency information

The scheduled flights booking engine supports both published and negotiated fares, round trips, one ways, open and double open jaw trips, display of aircraft and ticket on departure information and a variety of payment options.
The car rental booking engine enables display of availability and rates across multiple car rental companies and car types in a single query, and the use of FTI’s own negotiated rental rates.

The last minute package engine displays an up-to-date list of the number of available package offers (total offers and total from each departure airport) and allows users to select from and book offers using a combination of departure airport and destination. A “Top-Ten” offers feature is also included.

Examples of new agencies using the booking engines include:

Megatours Berlin-Ringcenter (click on “Linienflüge”, “Mietwagen”, or “5 vor Flug”)
www.special-flights.de (click on “Gabelflüge”)
www.ferien.de (click on “Linienflüge”)
www.McFlight.de (click on “drive FTI”)

Mark Bradbury, Director of RWA commented, “We are delighted with the continuing success of our booking engines in Germany. A further 120 agencies in only two months indicates how well these engines meet the online booking needs of both travel agencies and their customers and the ease with which FTI are able to provide the engines to the agencies.”

About RWA Ltd.

RWA Ltd. is a software consultancy and solutions company specialising in the travel industry with experience spanning from Tour Operators to Travel Agents, and airlines through to ticket agencies. RWA has over ten years of experience in both the modular and charter travel businesses and has expertise in Global Distribution Systems (GDSs), Negotiated Fares solutions, Tour Operator reservation systems, Travel Agency systems and online travel booking solutions. For further information see:
www.rwa-net.co.uk

For more information please contact:

Mark Bradbury
Director
RWA Ltd.

Tel: +44 029 2081 5050
Fax: +44 029 2081 5051

e-mail: [email protected]