Australia gets smart new travel site
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19 Nov 09 (TravMedia.com); Australian travellers for the first time can make complex multi-passenger travel arrangements in the single online booking.
Tempo Holidays is the only major travel company in Australia with such smart technology driving online bookings, according to CEO Steve Reynolds.
The site — www.tempoholidays.com — is extremely efficient and flexible, as verified by travel agents who have been using the site since February, “so it has been well tested by expert travel managers”, he said.
A five-person Australian family, for example, travelling from different parts of the world to meet for a three-week holiday in Paris and regional Italy where each person embarks on different local tours in both locations and uses a mix of rail and car rental, can be created in the one booking.
The system can of course manage simple bookings too, like an air-hotel package for Rio de Janeiro.
While consumers are accustomed to shopping across single-purpose websites for best-price airfares and accommodation and being required to make an instant commitment to buy, the technology driving www.tempoholidays.com means bookings stay live in the system for retrieval, alteration and re-costing at a later date, without starting again from scratch. And there is no booking fee.
The site holds air, accommodation, sightseeing and extended tours, gateway city packages, rail, cruise, car rental and car leasing for the 49 countries serviced by Tempo Holidays in the regions of UK-Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. (Note: this site contains only Tempo Holidays travel product and is not a travel industry search engine.)
On site, travellers can tailor Tempo Holidays product to their own needs, unlike some travel sites that are strictly geared to given packages.
Tempo Holidays is a 20-year-old Melbourne-based travel wholesaler, now owned by the India-UK company Cox & Kings, at 250 years, the world’s longest established travel business.
See www.tempoholidays.com
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