Sell-It Package To Be The First Of RWA’s New Sell-It Suite Family

The first member of RWA’s new Sell-It Suite family to be launched will be “Sell-It Package“. Sell-It Package provides Tour Operators with a comprehensive, competitively priced online selling solution for selling package holiday products online.

Sell-It package is an evolution of RWA’s proven, highly successful, package Internet Booking Engine, currently deployed in over 650 web sites throughout Europe

Sell-It Package Key Features

• A fully featured package booking engine for selling a wide variety of package holidays including accommodation only, flight only and city breaks.
• A sophisticated user interface supporting both browsing and very flexible search capabilities.
• A simple 4 step booking process, which has been designed, based on RWA’s extensive on-line booking experience working with Tour Operators.
• Extensive configurable branding capabilities enabling multiple Tour Operator trading names and brands, Agency selling and ‘white labelling’ to be supported from the one solutions environment.
• A flexible and modular architecture that provides a good framework to carry out integration with a tour operator’s existing reservation system.
• Based on web services and XML providing an open, extensible and flexible infrastructure
• Uses low cost, open technology enabling deployment on a range of operating systems and application servers.

Usage Scenarios

Sell-It Package supports the following different usage scenarios:

Tour Operator Deployment

In this scenario a Tour Operator deploys Sell-It Package on their own hardware and in their own IT environment. Sell-It package would be used to sell the Tour Operator’s own products over their own web site. Sell-It Package’s unique branding capabilities could be used to support multiple Tour Operator brands or trading names from a single solutions environment.

Travel Agency Deployment

In this scenario a Tour Operator purchasing Sell-It Package provides one or more travel agencies, or travel agency chains, with a package booking engine. This enables the agent to sell the Tour Operator’s products online via the agency’s own web site. Sell-It Package’s unique branding capabilities ensure that each agency or agency chain have a booking engine to incorporate into their web site that is dynamically rendered with their own colour scheme and branding.

3rd Party Deployment

In this scenario, a Tour Operator purchasing Sell-It Package provides a 3rd party company (e.g. an Internet-based company providing a separate sales channel), with a booking engine to sell the Tour Operator’s package products. Sell-It Package’s unique branding capabilities can be used to provide the 3rd party company with a ‘white label’ solution that can be incorporated into their web site.

ASP

In this scenario, a Tour Operator chooses to subscribe to the Sell-It Package service hosted by RWA or a 3rd party hosting company. The Tour Operator’s products would either be periodically loaded into the Sell-It Package service or could be sold via a direct feed from the Tour Operator’s reservation system. Sell-It Package’s unique branding capabilities are used to provide the subscribing Tour Operator with their ‘own’ branded booking capability.

Sell-It Services

Sell-It Package is built upon RWA’s Sell-It Services, a web services and XML-based integration platform providing:

• A tailorable infrastructure for delivery of robust, scalable online booking capabilities.
• Dynamic re-branding to support multiple Tour Operator brands, agency selling and white-labelling.
• The capability for business processes to be added or altered easily without affecting the front-end booking engines.
• The infrastructure to enable implementation of a seamless customer service process.
• A ‘plugable’ infrastructure for incorporation of additional 3rd party content e.g. travel guides, weather information, visa and health information.

A Modular Solution

Sell-It Package provides a modular solution enabling Tour Operators to ‘start small’ and add additional services and capabilities, including 3rd party content, at their own pace. The solution is designed to be deployed on a variety of hardware and software platforms, again enabling Tour Operators to choose the most appropriate cost-effective environment to meet their requirements.

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 twelve 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

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

e-mail: [email protected]