Travel technology practice
Booking journeys, B2B portals, agent workspaces, supplier connectivity and the operational systems behind them. Travel is the practice where Appnox runs deepest — where we arrive with useful questions rather than a discovery workshop.
The business problem
The symptoms are consistent enough across agencies, operators, platforms and hotel groups that we can usually name them before you do. What differs is which one is currently costing you the most.
Enquiries arrive faster than consultants can qualify them, and response time slips.
Quotes are rebuilt from scratch because the previous version cannot be reused.
Supplier responses disagree with each other and someone reconciles them by hand.
Servicing work quietly consumes the margin the booking was supposed to earn.
The platform cannot change quickly enough to follow the commercial model.
Reporting exists but is not trusted, so decisions are made on instinct.
Why the specialism matters
Travel technology has a specific failure pattern: the demo works, and the real journey does not. Search returns results, and then booking, amendment, cancellation, payment reconciliation and the operational edge cases turn out to be a different certification, a different rate limit, and occasionally a different commercial agreement.
Having worked inside these systems, we can be specific early — about what an integration will and will not support, about which part of an itinerary workflow is worth automating first, and about where a human has to stay in the loop because the commercial or duty-of-care exposure is real.
It also means we will tell you when the honest answer is that your constraint is not technology at all. That conversation is free and takes twenty minutes, and it has ended more than one engagement before it started.
What the practice covers
Most travel engagements draw on two or three of these. The mix is decided by the problem rather than by which practice needs the work.
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The product your customers and partners transact in, built around your commercial model rather than a template — and structured so it can keep changing.
Product engineering
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The path from an inbound request to quotable work, where most travel operations lose the first hour of every enquiry to clerical effort.
Enquiry to itinerary
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The operational path after the sale — the open-ended sequence of small interruptions that never appears in the margin calculation made at booking.
Booking and servicing
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Connectivity to suppliers, aggregators and distribution interfaces, scoped against what each genuinely supports and what your agreements permit.
Integration engineering
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Connecting the systems behind the front desk and the service team so information is entered once and staff attention goes to guests.
Guest operations
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Consolidated reporting the commercial team trusts, and incremental modernisation that keeps the revenue-bearing paths live throughout.
Modernisation
Who we help
The operational problems differ enough between these that we treat them as separate practices rather than one travel category.
Industry
Policy, servicing and traveller support at a volume where every manual step multiplies.
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Complex itineraries, supplier availability and quote versions that depend on one person's memory.
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When the platform is the product, every friction point shows up directly in the numbers.
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Property systems, guest operations and staff time lost to transcription between tools.
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Delivery model
Travel platforms punish breadth-first delivery. One journey taken all the way through exposes the problems that a shallow layer across every journey hides until launch.
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Shadow the actual work — enquiry handling, quoting, servicing — rather than the documented process. The difference between the two is usually where the engagement pays for itself.
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Interface capability, access terms, environments and rate limits, assessed sceptically. This determines what is possible far more than the design does.
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A single itinerary type or supplier taken all the way through to servicing, so the hard parts surface while the scope is still small.
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Run alongside the existing process with genuine enquiries and genuine disruption. Real travel traffic is messier than any sample.
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Add journeys, suppliers and properties with the baseline in hand, and document for the team who will own it.
How we work together
Travel engagements vary enormously in scope — a single workflow, a supplier integration, or a multi-release platform programme. Start with a conversation and commit to scoped work once the shape is clear.
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Free20 minutes
One workflow, discussed with a solutions architect. What it costs you today, what is technically in the way, and whether anything further is warranted.
Most common starting point
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USD 5,0004 weeks
A scoped review when the picture is genuinely unclear — several systems, an unproven integration, or a decision nobody can size yet.
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From USD 25,000Scoped per engagement
An agreed priority turned into working software, connected systems or a governed AI workflow, delivered in stages you can release and review.
Larger platform programmes start at USD 75,000. All figures are in USD and are starting points rather than quotes — scope, integration surface and the number of systems involved move the number. Commercial terms are always confirmed in writing before work begins.
Before we talk
Both, and the second is far more common. Most travel businesses have a booking engine, a CRM and a mid-office they are not going to replace this year, so the useful work is building around and between them. A full platform build is warranted when the existing product is the commercial constraint rather than an inconvenience — and that is a conclusion we would want evidence for before proposing it.
That depends on what your commercial agreements permit and what each interface genuinely supports across search, booking, servicing and cancellation. We assess connectivity per project rather than publishing a list, because a list implies a certification and a partnership we do not claim. Where an integration cannot support the journey you need, that is a finding we deliver early.
Less than with a general software supplier, which is the practical benefit of a specialism. We arrive understanding why a quote gets rebuilt, why servicing consumes margin and why a successful search response proves very little. You will still need to explain your own commercial model and supplier relationships, because those are genuinely yours.
That is usually the point. The people who service bookings daily know where the process actually breaks, which is rarely where the process diagram says it does. We would rather spend a week with your consultants than a month with your documentation.
Possibly not, and we would rather say so on the free call than after a proposal. Implementation engagements start at USD 25,000, which suits a business where the operational cost being removed is substantial and measurable. Below that scale, an off-the-shelf product or a process change is often the better answer.
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A manual process, a disconnected system, or a platform that needs to evolve. Bring us the problem and we will tell you how we would approach it — and whether you need us at all.
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