The best way for every travel advisor to compete in today’s travel environment is to choose the right partner. This can give you the competitive edge you need to succeed, but the real question is: how do you make sure that a travel partner is giving you the benefits you need?

To help your travel agency with finding the answer, we have decided to come up with the fundamental benefits a travel partner should offer to your travel agency:

1. Clear cancellation fee information & flexible payments options

2. Access to a global network

3. A wide range of partners to help you satisfy your customer’s needs

4. Personal discounts & growth incentives

5. An efficient travel advisor engine & portfolio

6. Exclusive rates & offers

7. A direct channel to manage special requests to suppliers

8. Easy and reliable quotation tools

9. Knowledgebase and content to help you 

Clear cancellation fee information & flexible payments options

Flexibility is fundamental for both your business as well as your clients.

When it comes to booking vacations, it's important to have clear information about cancellation to inform your customers and keep their booking safe in case of emergencies. If you don’t enjoy these advantages from your partner, you may need a change:

• Flexible refundable rates. You need ‘free cancellation' filters to find the right hotel, and other filters as 'partial cancellation fees', 'cancellation fees not available' or 'non refundable' rates.
   
• Multiple cancellations to save you time. It allows you to cancel multiple bookings at once in your booking management section.

Additionally, you should expect the same flexibility also for the payment options, and the booking process! Your ideal travel partner should help you with:

• Book Now, Pay Later Options. An innovative way to enjoy the flexibility you need with the option to make your bookings and have them confirmed without requiring any payment until 3 days prior to the cancellation penalty. 
   
• Local Payments to Save You Money. Each country has its own nuances in terms of payment methods. Bedsonline+, for example, works with local banks and partners to provide travel advisors with suitable options, saving them costs and commissions, and accepting payment from every possible currency.
   
• Flexible Pre-Payment Options. An essential advantage to manage your pending bookings.It allows you to manage more efficiently the bookings that are pending to be paid, and it even alerts you when the payment dates are due.

Access to a global network

In today’s travel market it is fundamental to have partners that can connect you to a global network. Having a travel partner with suppliers all over the world will allow you to help your customers living their travel experience as locals.

This can be crucial to help your travel agency to compete against the online giants of the travel industry.
 

A wide range of services to help you satisfy your customer’s needs

As a travel advisor, you should choose a travel partner capable of offering you not just hotel services, but as many complimentary services as possible, to be able to provide complete travel package to your customers.

From car rentals to hassle-free transfer, it’s essential to make your customer’s life as easy as it can be.
 

Personal discounts & growth incentives

Another important benefit for your agency is an incentive plan that helps you grow as the collaboration goes on, and a range of personal discounts to reward you as a partner.

Whether it’s a set of vouchers, discounts, or credit to be spent with other partners, cooperations featuring these elements can be a sign of a travel partner that cares about your growth, and won’t treat you “just like anyone”.

An efficient travel advisor engine & portfolio

Efficient and easy-to-use tools are just as important as the previously mentioned benefits. Otherwise, what’s the point of a huge portfolio of products if you have a slow and complicated platform to make bookings?

The ideal travel advisor booking experience should have: 

• An all-in-one solution
• An efficient booking engine
• A great comparison tool 

Thoughtfully designed with ease of use in mind, the Bedsonline+ interface brings efficiency to every search, with calendar views and easy to access products, filters, and ancillary products all available in one dashboard; removing the need for advisors to search across multiple links or locations, and delivering a more efficient operational experience.

By partnering with Bedsonline+, advisors can apply pre-filters to their searches across a range of criteria, including board type, free cancellation, and top products, such as the Luxury Collection, or sustainable certified hotels.

You shouldn’t settle for an average tool, and it’s important to be equipped to fulfill all your customers' needs.

Register now to see how Bedsonline+ can help you elevate every trip into an exceptional experience for your customers.

Exclusive rates & offers

The success of your travel agency depends a lot on the access you have to exclusive rates. This is one of the most important benefits you should expect from a travel partner! It allows you to compete against the online giants and will boost your value as a travel professional.

Along with exclusive rates, you should look for a partner able to provide you with tailored relevant and timely offers so you can delight your customers at the right time with promotions relevant to your target audience! 

If you choose to partner up with Bedsonline+ you will have access to our wide range of seasonal offers! Using a data-driven approach, we have developed a vast set of offers you can use at your convenience in each key season.

Additionally, travel advisors working with Bedsonline+ have flexibility to manage your commissions. We empower you to choose between commissionable rates or net rates with the ability to customise your margin. Whatever you choose, your commission rate won't be beaten elsewhere.

A direct channel to manage special requests to suppliers

Your ideal travel partner shouldn’t be a barrier between you and the service providers. That’s why it is important to choose a partner that can facilitate and allow direct interactions with all the suppliers.

The benefit of being able to contact a hotel directly to accommodate a special request from your clients can be a key advantage for your success and can be a great value for your customer’s satisfaction.

Easy and reliable quotation tools

Booking your customer’s vacation can be a long process, that’s why it’s fundamental to have the right quotation tool, that can give you:

• The flexibility you need to save quotes
• Quote research between the ones you saved
• The option to share them with your customers

This can be extremely beneficial for your daily operations as it can help you to respectfully wait for your customer’s decision process while keeping all the details you need at your fingertips.

Knowledgebase and content to help you 

Last but not least, another benefit you should look for is having access to a knowledge base, a range of templates and other types of informational and educational content. Some learnings that can keep your travel agency productive, competitive, and updated about the latest trends in the travel environment.

Even the most experienced travel advisors can benefit from having tips and tools from partners with reliable business insights.

The travel industry changes at a very fast pace and keeping up with the rise of OTAs and all the travel websites popping up today can be challenging. Luckily the human value of travel advisors can still make a difference for many travellers, and with the right partnership, and a good set of benefits, every travel agency can stand up against the online giants, and find their spot in the travel industry.

Register now to see how Bedsonline+ can help you elevate every trip into an exceptional experience for your customers.