Package II

The challenge:

Companies like GeBeCo or Kuoni require a flexible dynamic packaging solution. With clearly more than 150 tickets each a day and packages offered online these companies need a closed solution which integrates the tour operator application for every step of the entire chain of process from beginning to end.

The solution:

• Fare Management
• Online Distribution (including GDS export)
• local Automation with 1 GDS
• Local Internet Booking Engine with own Frontend
• Inventory Manager for capacity management

HitchHiker Products:

Data Management & Distribution:
» visualFares Flight Entry
» visualFares Flight STADAF Import
» visualFares Flight Upload Robot for Amadeus Negotiated Fares
» visualFares Flight Upload Robot for Galileo Private Fares
» visualFares Flight Automation Bundle standard (netfare ticketing)
» Additional CRS Interface

Ticketing & Automation:
» visualFares Flight Ticketing
» visualFares Flight Automation - Published Fare Module
» visualFares Flight Automation - Ticketnumber Updater
» visualFares Flight Automation - Ticketnumber Parser / OSI Generator
» visualFares Flight Automation - Price Control Macro

InternetBackend:
» visualFares IBE
» visualFares Flight Netfare Quote Engine
» visualFares Flight Inventory Manager

Workflow:

Savings / Advantages:

With this already proven concept of team-work and tour operator solutions, HitchHiker enables you to provide flight tariffs coupled with your travel packages - dynamically, online.

The tariff management system visualFares Entry guarantees Tour Operators fast loading, editing and distribution of flight tariffs while considerably reducing the manual workload.

visualFares Ticket Automation prepares the complete ticket shell and prints the ticket as well. Its capacity is approximately 600 tickets a day.
Net and published fare tickets issued through our system, which were booked on your website using our booking engine are correctly validated using the netfares database and published fares database. Therefore, the numbers of debit memos can be decreased to an absolute minimum.

Furthermore, low cost carrier fares can be integrated into the display of net and published fares and can be also booked from there.

We know from current customer experience with customers like Kuoni (Switzerland, Italy, Netherlands) or GeBeco (Germany) that this streamlined workflow has lead to increasing efficiency within the data management, booking and ticketing departments.
This allows your user to be flexible in booking additional flights, preferred airlines or additional stops within their journey.

In today's competitive online world you can't just offer inflexible packages. Customers expect high flexibility within their chosen travel packages.

For GDS fare filing HitchHiker (among others in development) proudly presents the Amadeus XML Fare Data Interface, a simple to use fare management solution that is the first fully automated system with filing facilities to be made available through a GDS. The new XML export process allows users to quickly upload and file net and negotiated fares, as well as rules, routing and ticket information directly into the Amadeus database.
The combination of HitchHiker’s fare management solution with Amadeus’ XML Fare Data Interface provides a modern and highly powerful solution for filing and instant distribution of private fares through Amadeus.
Local control over fares management with rapid, secure and precisely-timed automatic uploads have become crucial advantages in today’s increasingly competitive market. With this joint effort, an industry-first, we present a giant step forward
in terms of operational and business efficiency.