+ Extended Search & Book capabilities

Mappings of hotels

Hotels Mappings module is a plug-in to Hotels Content Management module that allows grouping the same hotels from different suppliers. This might be useful if you would like to combine them altogether and show the best price for hotel among multiple suppliers.
With mappings of hotels you can:

• Use predefined automatic mappings (when hotel name and address are the same);

• Manually review and set grouping for the same hotels;

• Automatically recognize duplicating hotels during search&book and return identifier that this is the same hotel.

Manual mappings

If provided by different suppliers, one and the same hotel can have different names and as a result be displayed as several different hotels. With GP Travel Enterprise you can group identical hotels from different suppliers and display them as one offer. For this, you should add appropriate hotels in one group and specify the rules of displaying hotels of this group in contract settings.
For example, you have a direct contract with Hilton hotel in Prague. You also sell the same hotel as a part of your agreements with Hotelbeds, Tourico, GTA, and HotelsPro suppliers. In case grouping is not configured, this hotel will be displayed 5 times in different offers. To avoid that, you want all variants for this hotel to be displayed as one offer.

For that,

1. On the General settings menu click List of hotels.

   

2. Using the Search form at the top of the page, search for the required hotel (s):

   

3. Click Search. The list of hotel results appears:

   

The Group number column is empty. It means that the hotels displayed do not make up a single group, thus they are displayed in search results as several different offers.
4. To group hotels, select the required hotels:

5. Click Assign group. The following window appears:

6. In the group number window,

• Locate mouse pointer into the Group number box to specify the custom group number.

• Alternatively, click Get unique number to assign the group with the unique number generated by the system automatically.

7. Click Assign group. The Group number column displays the unique group number. The group of hotels is now displayed as one single offer:

GIATA mappings

In case one and the same hotel is provided by different suppliers, it can be displayed as several different offers. As it was mentioned previously, you can group such hotels manually and display them as one offer. Another alternative is to use GIATA mappings.

With GIATA mappings, such hotels are automatically grouped via GIATA. Each group is ascribe with a special code. The data on groups and their codes are automatically imported in GP Travel Enterprise.
To obtain GIATA mappings, you should:

• Sign a direct contract with GIATA;

• Get the credentials for importing data in GP Travel Enterprise;

• Turn to GP technical support in order to request GIATA mappings feature;

• Pass the credentials required for importing data to GP technical support;

• In case GIATA mappings are available, you can access grouped hotels in the following way:

1. On the General settings menu, click List of hotels.

   

2. Search for the required city and/or hotel using the search form.

   

3. In the GIATA code column, you can view the code ascribed to the group. It indicated that this hotel underwent GIATA mappings and is included into a certain group.

   

4. In the Name column, click to view the list of hotels included in the group.The Hotel mappings window appears:

Extended flights search & book

Flight search by schedule

Flights Search by Schedule module allows you to search flights not only by price but by departure date and time as well. This feature can be useful for the cases when clients know the exact dates or time of departure and arrival and the price of a ticket is not considered as the main search criteria.

The key features are:

• Displaying flights search results according to their departure time and dates;

• Checking availability and prices of the selected options.

Search
To search for a flight by time-table,

1. On the Search form, click Time table. The search form appears:

   

2. Choose the required flight type - roundtrip or oneway.

3. Specify the departure and arrival locations.

   • Locate mouse pointer into the From/To box type the location manually.

   • Alternatively click select from the list and select the country, city and an airport from the respective drop-downs. To return to the manual entering, click add manually.

4. Specify the departure and arrival dates:

   • Click (Calendar) and click the required date in the calendar.

   • Alternatively, locate mouse pointer into the box and type the required
     date.

5. Specify the schedule period for both the departure and the return flights (in case the flight type selected is roundtrip). For example if you set the departure date to October 1 and set the schedule period to 2 days, in search results you will see the flights taking off from October 1 to October 3 arranged by the date.

6. On this stage you can click Search to initiate search process. Alternatively in order to make search results more precise, click Additional search options to expand the additional search criteria, which include:

   • Airline: select the preferred airlines.

   • Reservation system: select the preferred reservation system.

7. Click Search.

Filtering results

Sometimes the number of search results may be quite sufficient. In order to leave off unnecessary offers, you can apply different filters. In order to filter search results, go to the Filters panel to the left of the search results:

1. Specify the following filtering criteria:

   • Flight duration: move sliders along the bar in order to restrict the flight
     duration.

   • Airline: select the preferred airline.

   • Airports: select the preferred airports for the departure and arrival airports.

   • Departure/arrival time: move sliders along the bar to restrict the time of departure/arrival.

   • Validity dates: move sliders along the bar to restrict the flight validity
     dates.

   • Operation days: select the preferred dates of the week on which the
     flight is available.

2. Search results are automatically updated according to the applied filters.

Search results
When searching by schedule, search results are arranged in the following table and arranged by the date:

In case you search for a round trip flight, the results for both the oneway and return flights are arranged on two tabs. Click the required tab to navigate between the search results pages:

Saving search results to PDF

In order to save the search results t a PDF-file and download it to your PC,

1. Select the required offers you want to save or select all the offers.

   

2. Click (Save to PDF). The list of offers will be downloaded to your computer.

Voiding tickets

Flights Void allows you to void issued e-tickets directly from the system. Thus
you can void a ticket within 24 hours from the booking time.
To void a ticket,

1. On the reservations menu click View reservations.

   

2. Go to the required reservation.

3. Click Cancel to void the flight reservation.

   

4. In the Cancellation window, click Close to finish the voiding procedure.