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GP Travel Enterprise is a state-of-the-art web-based solution that provides immense opportunities for travel companies to fully automate business processes, including back-office automation and interaction with partners, as well as online sales of travel services. The purpose of the system is to simplify and accelerate searching and booking of travel services, rendered by various suppliers. Moreover, using configuration and control tools you can create a single workspace to cooperate with a vast network of clients (including travel agencies and distributors) granting access to respective information for them.

GP Travel Enterprise features:

Our Customers

  • Access to world leading suppliers and GDS’s

  • Inventory management with detailed description of travel products, prices and availability

  • B2B and B2C online booking

  • Comprehensive reservation and finance management

  • API for integration with 3rd party applications

  • Destination Management Companies

  • Outbound tour operators

  • Online booking portals and OTAs

  • Airline companies

  • Travel services consolidators

Highlights

Advantages

  • Active on software market: since 2008

  • Current version: 8.4 (release date: October 2020)

  • Data repository: MySQL (with optional porting to Oracle

  • Access: multi-user via the Internet

  • Architecture: “client-server” (all business logic is managed on centralized server)

  • Accessibility: 24/7, upwards of 99,9% (including time for scheduled updates)

  • Programming languages and frameworks of the system: Java, XSLT, JS

  • External components: Jasper Reporting, AmCharts, Google/Yandex maps

  • Allows permanent access 365/24/7

  • Works online via the Internet

  • Provides instant booking of travel services directly from suppliers

  • Supports multi-user access for suppliers, agencies, tour operators and their staff and individual travelers with different user permissions and change history logging

  • Designed for international markets (with multi language descriptions and multi-currency support)

  • Allows manual input of currency rates and integration with various financial information sources (banks)

  • May be utilized in various configurations

  • Enables complex automation of business processes and flexible adaptation to numerous business models

Table of Contents

Business Model

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The modules of the system are combined into six independent components to solve the specific range of business tasks. All components and modules of the platform can be combined in many ways and also include scalability mechanisms for adaptation to business processes and unique needs.

Component

Business tasks

HUB

Provide a unified interface for integration with multiple travel suppliers.

INVENTORY

Allows to manage own and directly-contracted inventory (prices, availability, descriptions, policies).

B2B

Build up B2B distribution network.

B2C

Handles sales to end consumers.

ENTERPRISE MANAGER

To provide a fully functional back-office solution for configuring markups & commissions & other sales rules, managing reservations, creating invoices, controlling payments and obtain analytics.

GATEWAYS

Enhances business automation via integration with external systems (e.g. CRM, Accounting, online payment gateways etc.).

Platform Delivery and Administration

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GP Travel Enterprise can either be hosted on GP Solutions dedicated servers or on clients' servers.

Dedicated Server

Multi-Server Installation

Individual software installation on a dedicated server of a client is the most common implementation option. The platform installation and configuration is performed by GP Solutions specialists.

In case of plans for on-going customisation of the solution, we recommend having an additional test server for internal use.

If the system is supposed to process a large amount of booking transactions (approximately more than 5 000 bookings per month) or if high search load is expected, it is recommended to use the multi-server server installation to assure a high performance level.

Note: Each multi-server installation is configured on a case-by-case basis according to every client’s exact requirements.

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titleThe following parameters should be considered to make the right decision about the recommended number of servers and their configuration:
  • What and how many external suppliers are to be connected

  • How many company’s self-operated travel products will be stored in the company's database (e.g. hotels, tours etc.)

  • Expected number of B2B users and concurrent sessions

  • Expected number of B2C guests and concurrent search queries

  • Number of offices (branches) (for the Holding configuration)

  • Number of websites (for tour operators and agencies)

  • Expected number of search queries per day

  • Rates of search queries in peak hours

  • Expected number of bookings per month.

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  • Accomodation (Hotels, Villas, Apartments, etc.)

  • Charters

  • Transfers

  • Car Hire

  • Excursions

  • Events

  • Tours

  • Visas

  • Insurance

  • Extra services

  • Cruises

  • Package tours

  • Complex Tours and Packages

In general the process of developing self-operated products includes the following steps:

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  1. Search for the products you are interested in. At this stage the platform provides information about the availability of rooms (tickets, seats) that can be booked immediately. Depending on the availability of allocated places the [ platform supports two types of booking:

    1. free booking - the services can be booked immediately;

    2. booking upon confirmation - at the time of booking, information about the reservation is saved, but the manager must contact the supplier to confirm the booking.

  2. View search results. If you are not satisfied with the search results you can go back and repeat the search.

  3. Choose and book the product you are interested in.

  4. Get booking confirmation from the supplier. The final step includes creating a reservation and saving it in the system. If needed, you can modify reservations and add new products to them.

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