Travel Counsellors enables no-frills bookings

Saturday, 03 Feb, 2005 0

Travel Technology Show 2005: Travel Counsellors is attempting to cash in on flight-only sales following a deal with Comtec.

The independent agency, which incorporates 450 home-based travel consultants, has chosen Comtec’s Flights Booking Engine to allow it to search for scheduled, charter and no-frills flights on one browser-based screen.

The system, which will go live from next month, will incorporate Travel Counsellors’s current Galileo GDS access to fares but adds the charter flights searched by Viewdata, and no-frills fares, some of which are screen-scraped, as well as searching fares from various consolidators. It has been customised to feature the agency’s branding and logo.

Comtec’s Flights Booking Engine is also being adopted by the West Midlands Co-op, and a further three clients that are yet to be disclosed.

Comtec sales director Richard Turner told TravelMole this was the first component in a suite of products the company planned to launch this year to enable dynamic packaging. Similar hotels and car hire booking engines will be launched by the end of the year, according to Mr Turner.

The booking made in Comtec’s Flights Booking Engine is retained and can be fed into the agency’s management system, which in the case of the Travel Counsellors is Comtec’s Travelcat.

Report by Ginny McGrath

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