# B2B travel portal software in United Arab Emirates

> Sell your contracted hotels, tours and transfers to your sub-agents in AED, under your own brand, from your own domain — with Dubai at the centre of it.

*Source: https://itravel.cloud/b2b-travel-software/uae*

## United Arab Emirates at a glance

- **Wallet currency:** AED
- **Hub:** Dubai
- **Portal languages:** English and Arabic
- **Suggested template:** Trade desk suits consolidators; Boutique suits the luxury inbound houses.

## How the trade works

Dubai is a connecting hub before it is a destination, so UAE operators sell in two directions at once: inbound programmes for agents in India, the CIS, Africa and Europe, and outbound packages for GCC residents. The agent network is large, informal and fast — most of it runs on WhatsApp, and most of it expects a net rate within the hour.

## What operators here are loading

City hotels contracted by season with heavy shoulder-period swings, desert safaris and city tours sold as options with time slots, and a very high transfer volume between DXB, DWC and hotels in Deira, Marina and Downtown.

## Worth knowing

Arabic is a first-class interface language, right to left, so a portal here can be read the way its buyers read.

## Two directions at once, and a calendar set by trade fairs

A UAE operator is usually running two businesses out of one office. Inbound: programmes for agents in India, the CIS, Africa and Europe whose clients are arriving into DXB or DWC. Outbound: packages for GCC residents heading to Georgia, Azerbaijan, Thailand, Bosnia and increasingly Central Asia. The two have different suppliers, different margins and different agents, and most systems make you choose which one you are.

The seasonal shape is unlike a beach market. Rates fall through the summer and then compress hard around the exhibition calendar — GITEX, Gulfood, Arab Health, the Airshow — when city hotels sell out on dates that have nothing to do with the weather. Ramadan moves roughly eleven days earlier each year, so a rate calendar built on fixed months drifts out of alignment within three seasons.

And almost none of it happens by email. The UAE trade runs on WhatsApp, and the working expectation is a net rate back within the hour.

## What that needs from a portal

Both sides of the business live in the same catalogue, priced in dirhams, sold to the same agent list under your own brand.

- **Seasons, not months.** Rate plans are date ranges you draw yourself, so a compression week around a trade fair and a moving Ramadan are just two more ranges.
- **Arabic reads properly.** The portal is a first-class right-to-left interface, not a translation bolted onto a left-to-right layout.
- **Transfers are the volume.** DXB, DWC and AUH to Deira, Marina, Downtown and JBR are routes with two named ends — private per vehicle, shared per seat, with a night surcharge window.
- **An agent who books at 1am is served.** A quote, availability, the wallet debit and the voucher happen in one transaction, so nobody has to be awake in Dubai.