Travel Industry — Things you should know
Travel and tourism are near to stand-still due to the COVID-19 pandemic and no one knows when it will restart. A future travel will increase growth to the travel insurance. Travel industries will start coming back online and travellers will start going out again. In a nutshell, until the COVID-19 virus is under control, it’s too soon to judge when people can start booking again.
The Travel / Tourism industry comprises all the companies that provide the services and products that are meant and used by tourists.
As the online travel industry continues to grow, competition between travel providers is at peak.
Choosing a domain name is a big decision, especially in the travel industry. Your URL is one of the first things people notice when they look for online travel research.
Key things involved in Travel domain setup
E.g. .travel, .tours
- Keep specific URL to the travel industry
- Domain expiration renewal reminders enabled
- Remove bunk DNS entries
- Domain protected by WAF or web proxy
- HTTPS enabled using strong, publicly trusted certificate
- Mail Exchanger (MX) records set using mail provider
- MTA-STS to increase mail transport security
- TLS-RPT to report on TLS issues with your email
- DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)
- “HSTS for email” using STARTTLS
- DNSSEC authenticates your DNS entries to reduce the likelihood of spoofing or maliciously manipulated entries
Reference — https://www.johndball.com/my-domain-name-security-setup-checklist/
What investment is involved in setting up a travel domain?
- You can pay a host agency $400 to $1,200 to get started
- To start your own independent agency, it may cost you between $1,000 and $10,000, depending on the markets you serve. You can build the Mobile apps for IOS and Android.
- Creating a SAAS software as a service platform we can go for Cloud GCP/AWS/Azure based on requirements and how much scaling we need. If we are having an existing business like having relationships with multiple service providers then we can maintain a common Dashboard.
Strategies to increase Revenue
- Create a good website — It is very important to have an attractive and user-friendly website. Ability to do branding( customizing same functionality for multiple users(operators or TMCS)
- Collaborating with social media — It is a good sales technique to do marketing via social media like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc
- Option to choose packages — Combine your services to provide unique experience to your clients
- Request for review — Ask your customers to share their feedback or experiences
- Know your client needs — You need to understand the needs of your customers to speak their language
- Be responsive — Respond to all your customer requests within SLA
Read more to know Opportunities in Travel Domain
Originally published at https://www.neovasolutions.com on May 12, 2020.
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