ETW Staff – Mumbai
Smarter’ innovation has replaced agency desktops and made the entire process of travel offerings more easier – and easier does not mean lesser. Travelport is a technology provider that has been facilitating travel agencies from across the world. They have now introduced Smartpoint, a futuristic interface designed to deliver exceptional travel selling experiences to travel consultants across geographies. This is a one stop shop platform, that seamlessly down plays the inconvenience of manual programming, minimises mistakes, manages booking queues, offers best travel options, and brings to you real-time access to booking content and available ancillaries.
Smartpoint offers unmatched updated content which includes fares, latest offers, images of the cabins and seats in a single window, product descriptions, and ancillaries provided within the fare. This enables the travel agent, to be more result oriented and target achieving. There is also an option of comparing various features and selecting the best suited results for the clients.
As a modern day travel specialist, you need to recommend a complete itinerary plan with the best offers in hand as per your clients’ requirements. For this, Smartpoint offers a unique assortment of car and hotel inventories (through Travelport Rooms). As the fourth largest hotel aggregator in the world, Travelport is offering 650,000 unique hotel properties with over 1.5 million offers and 35,000 car rental locations across the globe.
Be it an independent boutique hotel or pocket friendly hostels, Travelport offers all kinds of accommodations with apt location details and reviews. It also equips you with a map that exactly defines the area where is your customer’s hotel, how far it is from the airport and the drivable spots from there. Also, due to the pre-bookings made by you, traveller will not have to worry about booking cabs.
Think about your customer’s relief when he is assured that a rental car is waiting for him at his destination. Right after the flight, he can use it on his own volition without having to worry about hiring cabs, standing in queues for the same, facing linguistic challenges or currency issues.
In addition, Travelport Smartpoint is embellished with a plethora of features that ease everyday job of a travel consultant. With this in your system you can multitask on a single screen, make your own screen adjustments, operate in a language of your choice, rename windows, get help from the user guide, create quick command keys, access the interactive window, set up the GDS language and get it translated using the translator, replay entries, check out hotel availability with dates, keep hard copy or soft copy (via word format) for documenting your work, access Smartpanel, filter fare shopping results, receive automatic updates, use the graphical screens for hotel and car booking, access Travelport Rooms and More, get automatic agency reminders on hotel offers, and easily view PNR history.
Travelport Smartpoint has been designed specifically to ease modern day travel businesses workflow. Its multiple workability features, automatic updates, single window viewing and other smart features are attributed with the specific purpose of helping modern businesses to grow and evolve with time. Minimising time, optimising effort, easing workflow and reducing manual labor are
the key benefits of using Smartpoint.
Its creation also keeps in mind the wide spectrum of users it can have. It can be used by any GDS user, which completely does away with the hassle of getting trained on multiple GDSs. With lesser focus on GDS language, it is so easy to use this interface and grow your business.