INDUSTRY technology giant Traveltek is basking in praise from launch clients enjoying boosts in productivity, thanks to its new Rapid Deploy white-label cruise booking website.
The recently launched plug-in cruise booking widget is available to travel advisors around Australia as either a fully bookable website with live inventory and availability or as a search-only widget, packed with details on itineraries from 35 different lines.
Stephen West from Gold Coast-based agent Interline Travel said the company had identified automation as key to its growth strategy and found Rapid Deploy ticked its boxes as a system that is well recognised and works with the agency’s large industry membership base.
“With the Rapid Deployment website, we will be able to service members 24/7 and reduce the number of quotes we do, given live availability and booking functions,” West said.
“Our key partners provide live data to this TravelTek product allowing us to be first to market with specials and pricing.”
Traveltek worked closely with front-end partner Digitaltravel.io to develop the Rapid Deploy API.
In addition to a modern website, the plug-in features live pricing, stateroom selection, discount management, booking reports, secure payment and more.
Traveltek APAC Head of Sales Christian Sansom told Cruise Weekly agents will notice a clear difference in the ease of use and functionality of Rapid Deploy.
“We have a whole content team that manage things like images, itineraries, descriptions, all of that is constantly maintained and then fed through to this website.
“The flexibility it gives as well is based on colour, branding, contact details, terms, conditions.
“Travel agents own their bookings [and] control it.”
Once they have the booking and customer details, agents can add on flights and hotels.
“There is a real demand for an independent cruise website solution which is modern, mobile responsive, excellent value and allows travel agents to utilise their own commercial relationships with cruise lines.”
Pricing for the platform is competitive, Sansom added, with a one-time setup fee of $2,000, a monthly operating and maintenance charge of $300 plus $5 from each booking.
Traveltek has partnered with a number of lines over the past few years, including Disney Cruise Line (CW 04 Jul 2023) and Virgin Voyages (CW 05 Jul 2022). ML