Softvoyage powers Holiday House, a leading FIT tour operator New www.holidayhouseagent.ca travel agent business to business shopping engine offers Dynamic shopping capabilities and other unmatched functionality
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Toronto - March 1st, 2005.
Softvoyage Inc., an international leader in distribution and management solutions for travel agencies, tour operators and travel suppliers is proud to announce that it powers
www.holidayhouseagent.ca, the first true dynamic shopping web site for travel professionals in Canada. Holiday House, a leading Canadian travel wholesaler has been servicing retail travel agencies for over 40 years and specializes in customized vacations.
www.holidayhouseagent.ca offers unsurpassed functionality for travel professionals, including:
- The shopping and booking into a live inventory of flights, cars, hotels and attractions;
- The ability for the agent to dynamically create packages for their clients, associating to flights various combinations of hotels, cars and attractions;
- The ability to shop for components one at the time and add them into a shopping cart;
- Rich content features with pictures and extensive descriptions;
- Exclusive business to business features designed to simplify the life of agents. An advanced "Mark-up" feature allows travel professionals to add service fees or change their commission. The site even incorporates a convenient "Switch View Mode" feature enabling agents to only display to their clients the desired information about the product, and print or email such information. The site supports multiple methods of payments and agents can retrieve and modify outstanding bookings.
www.holidayhouseagent.ca is powered by a combination of Softvoyage industry-leading solutions, including TTS™, Gulliver™, MRUN™ and SIRRVA™. Combining rich features and a friendly web interface,
www.holidayhousagent.ca makes it easy for travel agents to enjoy unique shopping and administrative capabilities.
"We are proud to partner with Holiday House, which sets a new standard for tour operators in offering advanced self-service tools for travel agents. The launch of
www.holidayhouseagent.ca is also special for Softvoyage as this project leveraged both our back-office and web distribution solutions" says Steve Ringuet, Softvoyage CEO. "Combining our various technologies, we are able to offer one truly integrated solution for Holiday House, which will help it providing better service to travel professionals at a lesser cost."
Ian Rayment, president of Holiday House and Network, recently met with Bob Mowat of Travel Courier, Canada's favourite Travel Trade Magazine. As Rayment points out: "The good agent will be able to take his/her experience… and make sure the client's expectations match with what's delivered… which is what the online competition isn't able to do. We're giving the agent the tools to do that." Rayment goes on to add: "Any counsellor out there now who can use a web site, should be able to use
www.holidayhouseagent.ca... From our point of view, it opens up a whole new market of agent because we're giving them a tool that makes booking FIT pretty much as easy as booking ITC".
Founded in 1987, Softvoyage specializes in the development of information technology (IT) solutions for travel agencies, tour operators, consolidators, and suppliers. Softvoyage has established itself as a leading IT solution provider dedicated to the travel industry in North America. Softvoyage
For further information, please contact:
Daniel Langevin
Vice-President, Sales and Marketing
(905) 695-0422 ext. 109
dlangevin@softvoyage.com
