One of the most important business requirements of travel agents and tour operators is accurate and expansive information at their fingertips. eToursIndia, a consolidator in collaboration with Arbnet Tourism Infotech P Ltd has developed TourismEx, a system application, which functions as a day-to-day ‘updated tourism desk,’ 24 hours-365 days. The software application provides at a click of a button information on Indian destinations, tourist places, hotels, car rentals, airlines, railways, holiday packages, forex, visa, distances etc along with schedules, rates and availability and the information is updated on day-to-day basis.

It also facilitates travel partners to prepare instant hotel brochure, destination detail, tour itinerary, which can be printed, mailed and faxed in multi-media to their customer instantly. Successfully installed in 150 travel agents’ offices in Mumbai, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Indore, Pune, Delhi and Kochi, the system application is being provided at nominal annual subscription fee of Rs 3,500. eToursIndia has a franchisee network in western India.

This desktop application has been designed to help the tour executive to access updated and comprehensive travel information instantly at his desktop enabling him to work out client tour programme with the click of a button and execute the same instantly. It will save valuable time of the executives as well as reduce communication cost considerably.

TourismEx includes 180 Indian tourist destinations with photographs and description for each tourist spot of individual cities; has a listing of 500 hotels with eight to 12 images of each hotel with their facilities, valid tariffs and package offerings, which are updated regularly; car rental charges for all the airports and sightseeing places in major destinations in India; 7,000 Indian train schedules, inquiry by train name, by train number, by destination (to and from), availability, PNR status and online booking link for all the destinations.

The comprehensive product also includes airline schedules/timetable with fares for Indian Airlines, Jet Airways and Sahara, the details of their special offers with the online availability link; customised packages for all the destinations, with each day itinerary inclusive of photographs and tariffs, visa information displaying addresses of the consulate, type of visas with their respective requirements; currency exchange rate on day-to-day basis and road distance calculator for all the tourist places.

The other features of this desktop application also include a photo library of over 6,000 images of hotels and destinations. It is a Transaction Module facility, which facilitate our travel partners to negotiate, book and confirm their hotel car rental and package requirement through eToursIndia call centre. eToursIndia through their servers keeps the system updated from time to time adding more hotels, destinations, packages and car rentals to the client’s database automatically. TourismEx can be installed on a standalone PC and also on LAN. The eToursIndia call centre in terms of product information supports the application, reservation and execution of all tourism related services for their trade partners.