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| Kash Venture Travels , popularly known as KVT,
is a company specializing in tour packages within India. In business
for more than a decade, they are already servicing a huge chunk
of the domestic market. With competition increasing everyday, they
now wish to develop an online presence to save costs by introducing
a self-servicing website. This combined with offline software
that is integrated with their web presence would help them in
increasing their business while reducing operational costs. A
new brand was also be launched by the name of Indian Traveler.
Icreon also undertook to develop a suitable corporate identity
for Indian Traveler. |
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To provide a far superior
service that is easy to use and requires minimum
manual intervention |
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To establish an in-house
database system to house our huge tariff of services, prices
and availability |
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Implement an efficient computerized
reservations systems |
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To offer tourists a wider
choice from a host of member hotels, destinations and service
providers at competitive prices while bringing in more business
opportunities for the tourism industry at the same time |
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Desk Top Application
Desktop application to enter huge tariff of services, prices and
availability and data, this would synchronize on a daily basis
with the data available online.
Web Site
A travel portal that provides comprehensive travel information
on all the states and cities of India. The destinations are classified
geographically and on the basis of tourist interest, including
adventure, heritage, wildlife, religious tourism, Business trips
etc. It offers information on how to get there along with scenic
pictures of the place, accommodation, historical significance,
local languages, climate, sightseeing, shopping etc.
Site also offers to create their Customized packages as per the
tourist choice. It also offers facility to book a car for most
of the cities of India.
Moreover the portal offers a comprehensive online directory covering
nearly 75 per cent of hotels in the country that can be used by
visitors to view their catalogues, regarding their travel and
accommodation requirements. The visitors thus, after going through
information about tariff, facilities, etc. in a hotel, will be
able to make bookings online.
The whole process will take only 60 seconds and the hotel will
confirm data by e-mail. This facility has been made available
in arrangement with member hotels. |
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KVT has huge data of its members, destinations,
hotels, various packages that required a suitable, robust back-end.
KVT also had huge plans for the future, which meant they needed
a technology that would help them grow.
That's when KVT chose the Microsoft range of products. The operating
system was Microsoft Windows NT server 4.0, Microsoft IIS 4.0
was chosen. SQL Server 2000 was chosen and implemented for
building the catalogue database and entire membership. Visual
Basic 6.0 and MS Access 2000 has been used to build
desktop application. |
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