iTravel journal
How DMCs, tour operators and agencies put their inventory, their agents and their money in one place — written by the people building it.
Latest DMC playbook
Most DMCs already sell to sub-agents — in WhatsApp, over email, and on the phone at ten at night. This is what moving that network online actually involves, in the order it usually happens, and what changes when it works.
The iTravel team 6 min read
Quoting & CRM
A free Excel quotation laid out day by day, with line totals, the party total and the price per adult, child and infant all worked out by formula, optional extras after the total, and a check that tells you when the per-person prices do not add up.
The iTravel team 6 min read
Documents & vouchers
A free Excel invoice for travel agents, DMCs and tour operators: trip reference and travel dates, quantity times price by formula, a tax line at your own rate, deposit paid, balance due and its date, how to pay and your cancellation terms. Notes on every field and the mistakes to avoid.
The iTravel team 6 min read
Documents & vouchers
A free one-page hotel voucher in Word and PDF, laid out the way a front desk reads it: the hotel's confirmation number first, then guests, dates, rooms, who pays and a 24-hour line. Notes on every field, how to fill it in, and the mistakes a Word voucher invites.
The iTravel team 6 min read
Pricing & money
Bookings keep changing after the sale, and a general ledger was never built for that. What a travel business needs from its accounting software, how bookings reach Tally, Xero or QuickBooks without re-keying, and a worked month end.
The iTravel team 8 min read
Running a portal
Letting travel agents register on your B2B portal is a vetting decision, not a sign-up button. Self-registration or invitation, what to ask for, how to approve, prepaid or credit at the start, roles inside the agency and how to suspend.
The iTravel team 7 min read
B2B travel
A requirements checklist a DMC or consolidator can hand to any developer or vendor, phase by phase, with why each requirement matters and the edge case that breaks a home-built portal when it is missed.
The iTravel team 10 min read
B2B travel
When a large agency wants to book your hotels, tours and transfers from its own system rather than your portal's screens. What an agency booking API should offer, what must stay exactly as it is on the portal, and how an integration project runs.
The iTravel team 8 min read
Documents & vouchers
The best mobile itinerary is a link, not an app: the trip day by day in local time, every voucher, who to call, and it opens without signal. What a traveller needs at each stage, the extras worth switching on, what the link must never show, and a group trip worked through.
The iTravel team 9 min read
Documents & vouchers
A confirmed hotel booking can still fail at check-in. When to reconfirm under your own policy, what to check line by line, how to record who at the hotel said yes, what to do when the hotel cannot find the booking, and a week of reconfirmations worked through.
The iTravel team 9 min read
Field notes
Written for people running a travel business — net rates, sub-agent credit, contracted inventory, and what actually moves bookings. No sequences, no drip, unsubscribe in one click.
