Creating Self-Operated Products

GP Travel Enterprise features all functions and tools required to develop self-operated products: hotels, transfers, tours and many others. The management of self-operated travel products is implemented via GP Inventory module. GP Inventory allows travel companies to create their own travel products (for example, sell the company’s own transfers or excursions) and also add direct contracts with suppliers who don’t have the possibility to be connected online. The process self-operated product development includes entering the description of a product and specifying rates and availability.

The Inventory module is represented by common solutions for the following purposes:

• Input of descriptions of tourism products (short and detailed descriptions, photo gallery, services)

• Configuration of pricing (various kinds of price lists: for different season; specific setup for discounts, cancellation conditions, etc.)

• Management of availability (allotments for rooms availability for hotels and tours, timetable and seats availability for transfers, charters, etc.)

With the help these solutions, it is possible to create various types of tourism services and place them for sale comparatively fast. Regarding this, nevertheless it is important to understand that the Inventory core itself is a technological structure, and its value for the end users is defined by its individual modules specially adapted for certain types of tourism modules: hotels, villas, charters, transfers, excursions etc.

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

1. General product description. The first step implies entering basic information on the product or service. The information to be specified varies depending on the product. There are however certain common fields:

   1. Adding general information on the product, including name, supplier, transaction currency, and the description of the product itself.

   2. Adding particular categories to a service catalogue (for example, categories for accommodation, service classes for charters, type for excursions and tours, etc.)

   3. Creating tourist categories. The Adult category is created by default. In сase you want to provide special rates for children or elderly tourists, you can add corresponding categories and later adjust price calculation.

   4. Scheduling services. Includes setting service schedule (usually service start time.)

   5. For some products configuring additional services is also available.

2. Configuring prices. Configuring prices includes several steps, and generally consists of:

   1. Creating tariffs according to which the prices are calculated and terms of your product marketing are formed

   2. Creating price-lists for a product and all services it includes

   3. Adding a price list for additional services

   4. Selecting types of discounts and specify terms of their application

   5. Setting penalties

3. Availability. Specifying allotments of seats or rooms available for booking (if you have corresponding agreement with suppliers) or configuring sales “on request”.

As a result, a tour product is created in the system and becomes available for search and booking. If needed, all new products can be modified.