Travel Portal has revolutionized the way of planning a trip
How does it feel to wakeup at 8 in the morning just to go to the railway station and then wait in the queue for booking the train tickets? Most of the people don’t face it anymore and why is it so? Since the low cost airline has invaded the Indian airspace and also as there are so many online ticket booking portals, less people suffer the pain of going for a booking physically.
In the last half decade, the scenario of the travel and tourism industry has totally changed with the upcoming of advanced technologies. In todays advanced era, booking a ticket whether it is a railway or flight ticket, everything has become as easy as just signing in into any travel portal. It just takes five minutes to get everything done and there you are with your ticket and happiness. As the demand for this facility is increasing, it is leading to a pacing competition and therefore most of the travel agencies have to add various add on and other discounts and offers. Travel portal solution has led to a big change in the mindset and approach of business people and other travellers towards travel and tourism.
Entire trip can be planned in the virtual online world. Travel portal helps from booking a car to the places to booking a lodge for your accommodation. In the growing sales and other activities of the ecommerce websites, travel portals have a major contribution. The online travel and tourism industry contributes 75% to the total ecommerce market.
Also, majority of the travel avenue generated online is not by travel agents but the travellers. Different travel portals offer various discounts and deals. Competition has been increased by bringing up this idea of attracting the customers and increasing customer traffic to one’s website. Due to competitions, online travel booking has gained a special position which ensures better services to the customers. On the travel portals, air tickets and other accommodation charges are 12% - 15% lower than usual prices. And even if such things don’t seem to be appealing to you then just think about booking everything sitting on your couch. And now this makes hard for the traveller to resist.
One should prefer travel portal over the travel agent because it has many other benefits that a conventional travel agent can never offer. Reviews are the most important thing because it helps the traveller to understand the place and the facilities and services. So a travel portal offers that as well.
