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TravelFusion Technology: TRIPplannerXMLTRAVELfusion has created powerful travel search and web fares booking tools which search, aggregate, compare and book travel content from the web. Based around it's patented TRIPplannerXML platform, TRAVELfusion has integrated hundreds of travel suppliers including air, hotel, car, rail, ferry as well as adding its unique content generated directly by travel suppliers to form the largest journey planning service in the world. The products we offer are all available via an XML API and have been designed to power cutting edge web 2.0 travel services. TRAVELfusion's content and technology can significantly enhance your competitive edge by providing:
The two main features of TRIPplannerXML are further outlined below. TRIPplannerXML - Travel SearchThe travel search service provides access to the most important aspects in building powerful e-commerce travel services:
Anyone using the TravelFusion APIs, can now get access to the most comprehensive travel supplier content from 400+ sites. This content covers air, hotel, rail, car, ferry and ground transportation suppliers. Combined with the content are powerful search and trip planning engines which enable radial searching, door-to-door trip planning and supports multi-modal and dynamic packaging functionalities. Critically, the data provided has been optimized and enhanced to provide geo codes of the accommodation locations, hotel matching, airport and route files location and many other tagging attributes, which are ideal for web 2.0 style applications. The travel search is offered in both (1) white label and (2) XML APIs. In both cases the programme is supported by comprehensive administration tools which cover all the necessary areas in managing travel search, including: statistics of - the number of searches, referrals, supplier and route searching and origin-destination information; easy way to create branches and sub-branches for multiple services/accounts; supplier management - easy way to switch supplier on/off and referrals (deep linking and tracking of the supplier sites) profile management. The functionality is open for any customization, but generally offers the search & referral model were the user is deep linked to the suppliers site to complete the booking of their chosen flight, hotel, and car results. The commercials of the service are based on referral and ad led revenues. The referral commission is generated from successful bookings made on participating supplier partner sites where tracking is in place. The other main source of revenues includes, sponsored links, online advertising such as display ads and sponsorships. The services are offered on the following basis:
TRIPplannerXML - Search & BookingsWith the explosive growth of the low cost airlines worldwide and the continuous migration of cheapest fares to the airline sites, TRAVELfusion has created the no. 1 managed search and booking solution for 90+ airlines. In just over 4 years, TRAVELfusion has established the largest client base of online agencies, travel management companies, e-commerce services and the GDS - powering the web fares bookings on all these platforms. TRAVELfusion aggregates 90+ bookable worldwide airline suppliers including all the low cost airlines, consolidators and scheduled airline web sites. Using state of the art content integration and automation tools, together with smart searching technologies the system has been designed to return flight results in a fast and efficient way. The booking process offers a robust error checking and handling processes ensuring maximum reliability which is further backed up by technical and customer support. The APIs also supports the rich functionality offered by the travel suppliers such as agency/user profiles. With it's advanced caching and intelligent data retrieval, the system has been proven to scale to support the most demanding online travel applications. The APIs fully support the ability of customers to embed the content into their online/offline applications and create advanced solutions such as integrating the flights into the dynamic packaging solutions. Some of the main features of the service include:
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