Travel Website Application Development

Features of Travel Website Application Development

  • User’s personal account with Social Media Sign up/Sharing
  • Search & Filters Option for Finding Popular Spots and Attractions
  • Booking Services (Hotel & Flight)
  • Navigation & Geolocation

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Key Features

Getting a competitive advantage in the travel application market requires a combination of helpful features, innovative technology, and immaculate design. Let’s see what functionality your travel platform should include.

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Importance of User Friendly Website for Travel Agencies

In this competitive internet world, every business needs a website, whether it is for branding, promotions or sales. A travel agency is one of many such businesses which requires a user-friendly website but its very important to understand “WHY? , FOR WHOM? & WHAT KIND?” These are the factors that define user-friendliness of any website.

First, we need to look into WHY? Because Travel Agencies’ audience is worldwide and what is a better way to reach out their potential customers and in an instance, than a good website. FOR WHOM? When developing a travel website one has to keep in mind that who are their potential customers and design accordingly.

Lastly WHAT KIND? The amount of sales generated depends mainly on what kind of website you are going to be developed. One must understand their product and their customers/ Visitors both in order to hike their sales records. It doesn’t matter whether you are in this business for a long time because if you don’t have a good website then it means you are far behind from your competitors.

Every traveler looks up to an internet for every information when they decide to plan their travel. In other words, we can say the internet has become so much integral to our life that we don’t even take a single step without its use. So, think yourself is it okay not to own a good user-friendly website that serves their potential visitors for your business in today’s world? Moving on, let's talk some important factors and beneficiaries your travel business will get with the help of a website.

  • Attracts an eye of new clients – The main reason behind building a website is to reach out to a large customer base and broader categories. Once you make yourself available on the internet every one of your customers will be able to reach you at their fingertips. So, make sure your website attracts an eye of every customer. For that, choose your design which beautifully reflects your business and with very attractive and appealing content. Think about all the possibilities that your customers want to see on your website. Think out of the box to make your website more interactive and intuitive.
  • Easy to find and book tours – Not only a travel website should look good to attract visitors, it has to be easy for visitors of “ALL AGE GROUPS” to Find what they want & Book what they want. When designing a website a designer and a site owner have to keep in mind that their targeted audiences are not just young people who are up to date with latest trends and navigations but for all walks of life. I personally do not like to spend my time guessing where my tour package should be on a particular website, it is time-consuming and too much hassle. A good navigation can be accomplished by just using old school style of “breadcrumbs” properly managed and categorized “Menu / Sub Menu” and Use of “Popular and Featured Tours” apart from navigation, another equally important part is “Booking” A booking system should be easy to locate, many people use Call To Action (CTA) button which is one good way to achieve the goal but another way to do is the use of simplified forms, which occupy a small portion of a web page area and requires less information to be filled.
  • Delivers your full services to your customers – With the help of a beautiful and informative website, you can easily deliver and demonstrate all of your available services to your customers. Don’t forget to include all the possible holiday destinations within their budget and the documents required to process their visas and all. Try to summarize all the requirements of any traveling plan. Also, include the search mechanisms from day to day itineraries to total sitemaps.
  • Help to create brand image and value – Owning an e-commerce website is another way of creating a brand value and brand image for your business. In fact, your customers will feel more comfortable and confident when they find you on the internet. As I mentioned earlier most of the customer's surf online before they make their contact with any travel agency. Therefore, you need to stand out in all matter such as images, contents, brand values and much more.
  • Workflow automation – On the off chance that your business has a substantial customer turnover, you are probably not going to locate a sensible harmony between the number of staffs and an appropriate salary for them. Thus, a coherent and straightforward travel web architecture will help your clients to make out the requests without any difficulty, which, from that point onward, and additionally can be processed automatically.
  • 24/7 interaction mode. – The traditional approach of visiting an office for making any travel plans is now officially over with the help of internet and website. You can simply ask your customers to fill out the form on your website or enable chats for processing any information they require. As we can say 24/7 you will be able to serve your customers with any information they require regarding their travel.
  • Customer feedbacks – Once, you are able to gather your customer's feedback regarding your travel site and service, you will have the advantage to improve your business accordingly. And of course, more feedbacks means more improved website and more customer retentions. While you are building your website don’t forget to be active on social media as well. Social media will help you to promote your business on whole another level.
  • Easy distribution of new offers - The website will definitely be the best place to learn about a new traveling place and new offers from your travel agency. For advertisements, you will obviously waste your money but on the website, it can be done freely, effectively and strategically. Your customers can get an easy grab of your offers without any difficulty and troubles.

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Like you plan your trips to make them fun, plan your development process too to make that web app successful. And to help you with the same, we present you the following points which you should keep in mind before you take your first step in the process:

Automate

This is the most basic point and it is highly dependent on your idea. Remember one thing, if it’s an app it should get some job done. You are not merely developing a static website, you should save some time and effort of the user. Whether you are providing useful information or helping with some bookings, just try to automate each and every step in your app. Right from suggestions to billing, everything should be done at a couple of clicks in the app.

Travel portal development companies integrate tools like Google maps, GPS, email service and digital wallets, etc. to give your idea a better shape through your web application.

Collaborate

Travel apps are successful if they are one-stop solutions. If tourist books a flight ticket from one app, then books a hotel room from another and uses different apps for taxi and train bookings. Ultimately he keeps hopping from one app to another for the whole journey. Why not you, through your web app, provide him a single assistant for the whole trip?

Just look out for opportunities. Think about how your app can be of further use. Collaborate with other businesses and relish the mutual gain. It will increase customer engagement and will provide an additional source of revenue. I am not asking you to cover all the aspects of traveling and make one complex web app, but you should also never sell pillows without offering them pillow covers.

Secure

A travel portal development is incomplete without transactions. The payment through digital mediums has provided the next level of comfort to the travelers. Now they travel without carrying huge amounts of cash and can avoid those cumbersome tasks of bank transfers.

But this does not come without extra risks of hacking and cybercrimes. And web apps have a reputation of being more vulnerable to these dangers than the mobile apps. Therefore, to make your web app a successful one, you need to make sure that the payment options you provide to your customers are safe. Users can forgive many mistakes, but carelessness with their hard earned money is unacceptable and this can hamper your reputation for a long time.

Serve

This is the whole purpose of your web application. Your app tends to make the lives of your customers easy. But traveling is a hassle-prone experience. Your users may need you anytime. They can feel confused with your application and services anytime and that too in the unknown places. At that time, you cannot afford to give them the cold shoulder.

Your customers may have been facing some difficulty with the billing, payments, offers, discounts, etc. On the field, problems can be as big as natural disasters or as small as directions, locations, local language, and gestures. You build trust in those difficult moments by providing excellent assistance to your users and helping them with whatever they need in those emergency situations.

Market

A peacock’s dance in the deep dark forest is appreciated by none. It means if the world does not get to know about your web app, then what is the point of developing one. Just like you have the option of online travel portal development, you can market your web app online too. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and what not, all these social media channels can be used for the digital marketing of your travel app. Do not ignore Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tools, which help in improving your rankings in the web searches.

But the catch here is, digital marketing needs its own homework. You need to know your target audience. For example, if your travel app is something related to adventure sports, then Instagram will be a suitable channel to advertise as it has a majority of the younger user base. And if your tourism app is meant for temples and pilgrimages, you should go with Facebook and YouTube as these channels will help you reach the people with higher age who are more interested in spiritual tourism.

Relate

A web app will not be successful if your users are not coming back again. To call them back again and again, you need to build relations with them. Relationships need information, communication & most importantly personalization. But how can you provide all these things to thousands of users? The answer is CRM, i.e. a Customer Relationship Management tool.

CRM software basically collects all the data of your users from their interests to bookings. You will get useful insights from the data such as what places these users are interested in, what services are they looking for and what price are they ready to pay for those services. These tools suggest you what you can do to improve the sales cycle by providing a single view of all the customer activities. And integration of CRM with other business systems will let you manage your customer relations like never before.

Conclusion

Developing travel web applications can be tricky, but just like any other business, if you know your 4Ps that are the product, people, promotion and price then you can be the master of your game.

Making traveling easier will not only help your business, but it will also boost the whole industry. People want to move around the world, explore new places, experience different cultures and taste other cuisines but they sometimes hesitate because of the fear of unknown. And if you can play a part in eliminating this hesitation through your web application, then you must go ahead and help other eyeballs to see the world.

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