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All rights reserved http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=104 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=104 test 3/13/2014 12:00:00 AM Try Teknokraaft -  having track record of 18 years   Over the last 5 years using Teknokraaft's booking platform   • 156,000 transactions happened   • 187,200 passengers flew/stayed in hotels   • Transaction value of 19.4 million US$ handled   # with more clients starting to http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=94 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=94 Pradeep M.S 4/22/2013 12:00:00 AM Amadeus announced the findings of its second Asia Pacific hotel distribution survey that highlights how cross-selling add-on services are key to ensuring travel agents attract and retain customers who http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=93 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=93 Sathish Kumar .S 3/19/2013 12:00:00 AM The comprehensive ABTA Consumer Trends Survey sets out the reasons why the travel industry should be optimistic for 2013. Feedback from the recently launched ABTA Consumer Trends Survey shows that http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=92 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=92 Umesh Chakravarthi J 2/7/2013 12:00:00 AM As a Travel Technology company we are asked on what are the criteria to be kept in mind while we select a payment gateway to integrate with your booking http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=91 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=91 Anoop .N 1/21/2013 12:00:00 AM As a Travel Technology company we have always been approached by clients who wants to know which hosting option they should opt for while looking at their OTA deployment http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=90 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=90 ~ Team Teknokraaft ~ 12/31/2012 12:00:00 AM http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=89 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=89 Alex Augustine 11/28/2012 12:00:00 AM The European online travel market will sustain double-digit gains in 2012, despite anemic growth for the region's travel industry, according to the new report “PhoCusWright's European Online Travel Overview http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=88 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=88 Anoop .N 10/23/2012 12:00:00 AM Mobile devices are rapidly displacing the desktop as the primary means to access the web and interact with the world at large. According to a May 2012 mobile research http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=87 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=87 Anoop .N 9/19/2012 12:00:00 AM In a travel industry where electronic ticketing for airlines is a reality, where you can make a hotel reservation literally in the lobby and then stroll up to the http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=86 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=86 Anoop .N 8/29/2012 12:00:00 AM A new survey shows that Americans have a lot of vacation days to use up by the end of the year, providing a targeted marketing opportunity to savvy travel http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=85 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=85 Anush Mathews 7/25/2012 12:00:00 AM A new survey, “Tech Norms for Travelers “conducted by Intel Corporation and commissioned by TNS to explore American attitudes towards travel and technology, finds U.S. vacationers feel anxious when http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=84 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=84 Manoj .S 6/29/2012 12:00:00 AM Sharing with you some interesting findings from a recent survey and study conducted by Thomas Cook in association with TCIL Survey which reveals the global developments and trends in http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=83 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=83 Anoop .N 5/29/2012 12:00:00 AM A new industry study released recently, Empowering inspiration: The future of travel search, identifies consumers´ trend-setting behaviour and motivation when shopping online for travel, besides ascertaining their experience during http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=82 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=82 Umesh Chakravarthy 4/30/2012 12:00:00 AM Eye for Travel’s report sees industry shift towards digital investment for 2012. Social Media ranked as the top area of investment in February 2011; however, no longer. Travel marketing budgets http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=81 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=81 Anush Mathews 3/30/2012 12:00:00 AM Going by the findings of the report the trend to book travel online is supposed to continue in 2012 – especially in emerging economies such as China, India and http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=80 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=80 Alex Augustine 2/29/2012 12:00:00 AM Providing you excerpts from a very interesting article that I read about online travel market that came in the Mckinsey Quarterly. Kindly read on…. A decade after the Internet spurred airlines, http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=79 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=79 Vishnu .V 1/20/2012 12:00:00 AM As per the recent Hotels.com survey results, Indian travelers are now the sixth largest spenders on overseas hotels ahead of travelers from countries such as the United Kingdom, France, http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=78 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=78 Alex Augustine 12/23/2011 12:00:00 AM http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=77 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=77 Manoj .S 11/24/2011 12:00:00 AM With the year 2011 coming to an end soon it would be nice to know about what could be the trends and patterns for the coming years. Had a http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=76 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=76 Alex Augustine 10/28/2011 12:00:00 AM Teknokraaft made its first formal entry into the Gulf market with a roadshow conducted in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The event was conducted in The Kempinski Hotel on the http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=75 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=75 Anoop .N 9/30/2011 12:00:00 AM Present scenario in online travel is engineered to work under this constraint: data costs money, so we need to be more efficient as much as possible in handling it. What http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=74 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=74 Sathish Kumar .S 8/25/2011 12:00:00 AM Was glancing through the Top travel trends for 2011 published by Phocuswright and thought of sharing some interesting snippets. So here we go. The big news for the industry is of http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=73 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=73 Anoop .N 7/21/2011 12:00:00 AM Hoteliers come out to the world of mobile. It’s a new channel to the Hotel industry and 66% believe it’s a key factor to offer bookings through mobile. A study http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=72 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=72 Umesh Chakravarthy 6/21/2011 12:00:00 AM As per the official data released US and UK markets are the major contributors to the inbound travel business for India in the year 2009. US had a share http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=71 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=71 Anup Ravindran 5/23/2011 12:00:00 AM Everyone knows that the global online travel agencies (OTAs) like Expedia and Travelocity are the biggest names in online travel, but as far as the Indian Online travel market http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=70 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=70 Anush Mathews 4/29/2011 12:00:00 AM As per the study report submitted by PhoCusWright at the ITB Berlin in March 2011 the buying and booking behavior of travellers from UK, Germany and France throws up http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=69 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=69 Alex Augustine 4/19/2011 12:00:00 AM Teknokraaft has been selected by a leading brand in Africa for developing a travel portal focused on the African travel market. This is indeed a great honor for Teknokraaft http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=68 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=68 Vishnu .V 3/31/2011 12:00:00 AM It is indeed happy days for Indian Hotel sector. As per a recent study conducted by global property consultancy firm Knight Frank India, a total of 36,000 new rooms http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=67 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=67 Manoj .S 3/18/2011 12:00:00 AM As per the data released by Ministry of Civil Aviation, scheduled domestic airlines in India carried a total of 520.21 lakh passengers in the year 2010. This was a http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=66 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=66 Alex Augustine 2/16/2011 12:00:00 AM We are happy to inform that Ernst & Young (EY) Middle East has selected Teknokraaft to implement their Travel application. An agreement to this effect has already been executed http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=65 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=65 Pradeep M.S 1/28/2011 12:00:00 AM Implementing the right security model is a vital part of any Online Portal and in this newsletter we hope to cover some important points related to the same. Cross http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=64 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=64 Sathish Kumar .S 12/16/2010 12:00:00 AM Presenting to you some interesting trends regarding Hotel bookings. Hope this gives you an idea about how this sector is moving. 1. The European Online Travel market is on a http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=63 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=63 Umesh Chakravarthy 11/25/2010 12:00:00 AM While working with Travel Technology projects we have seen that the QA process and specially the testing process may work out better if we were to tweak it a http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=62 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=62 Alex Augustine 11/9/2010 12:00:00 AM Cloud Computing is a technology that has been in vogue for quite some time now and (sadly)it has not revolutionized (yet) the IT landscape as we would have expected http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=61 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=61 Anup Ravindran 10/5/2010 12:00:00 AM According to a study commissioned by ETTSA (European Technology and Travel Services Association), Online Travel and the technology that powers travel distribution are maintaining strong growth prospects even in http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=60 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=60 Alex Augustine 9/7/2010 12:00:00 AM Ever wondered on how our normal travel searches could be made more intelligent? Imagine you want to fly from Delhi to Dubai. You get onto your travel portal, give http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=59 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=59 Anup Ravindran 8/18/2010 12:00:00 AM The DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) has released its data for the period for January to May 2010 and the Indian Domestic Airline segment has recorded close to http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=58 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=58 Pradeep M.S 7/13/2010 12:00:00 AM When we plan to develop a Web Services for your application the usual question that comes to your mind is whether to use SOAP or REST to implement the http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=57 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=57 Alex Augustine 6/9/2010 12:00:00 AM Recently in LinkedIn there was a very interesting discussion going on. The topic under consideration was If you were looking for Internet booking engine (IBE) solution what would be http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=56 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=56 Asharaf Ali .P 5/5/2010 12:00:00 AM As we think about developing an OTA, we need to choose a developing tool and DBMS. You then go through different stages of development and finally gets the OTA http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=55 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=55 Anush Mathews 4/12/2010 12:00:00 AM Recent reports indicate that people are back to travelling around a lot and in turn the airline industry is back to growth stages. Along with the technology this domain http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=54 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=54 Sathish Kumar .S 3/10/2010 12:00:00 AM Webcredible (http://www.webcredible.co.uk) has come out with an Online Travel Usability report for 2010. They cover some precious gems in terms of things to keep in mind when building a http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=53 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=53 Alex Augustine 3/10/2010 12:00:00 AM Adding intelligence to Travel Technology is the need of the hour and Teknokraaft gets an opportunity to work in that area now. Triptility, a US based Travel portal is http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=52 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=52 Ratheesh .S 2/10/2010 12:00:00 AM Travel Technology is understood by many as working with Flights vertical by many. This is more driven by the fact that it is Flights which is more in the http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=51 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=51 Pradeep M.S 1/15/2010 12:00:00 AM Web service is a web application that can be accessed over internet through web API. API is used for application to application communication. Web services uses XML and standard http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=50 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=50 Alex Augustine 12/16/2009 12:00:00 AM A high level team from Accubook of Ireland visited Teknokraaft. The team comprised of Alec Reid, Andy Basset and Joe Byrne. The purpose of the visit was to finalize http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=49 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=49 Alex Augustine 11/12/2009 12:00:00 AM Everyone knows that 2009 was bad for Travel Industry. But there is hope and 2010 is expected to be better even though there could be pressures on pricing. Here http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=48 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=48 Anup Ravindran 10/13/2009 12:00:00 AM Now here are some interesting facts relating to Online Travel in India. It seems that Indians are not that keen with the idea of doing transactions online. They are keeping http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=47 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=47 Alex Augustine 9/22/2009 12:00:00 AM The Interserve OTA hosted at www.interserve.travel has been enhanced with lot of new verticals and features. These are the verticals present now. Flights Galileo Amadeus http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=46 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=46 Manoj .S 8/18/2009 12:00:00 AM When you start discussing with your suppliers, or while going through their agreement you would have stumbled upon this phrase for sure - Look to Book ratio (L2B). Ever http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=45 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=45 Alex Augustine 7/1/2009 12:00:00 AM Woord en Daad of The Netherlands has been our client for the last 11 years now. In fact our software development story started with a project from Woord end http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=44 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=44 Umesh Chakravarthy 6/9/2009 12:00:00 AM Here are some ideas about how to go about when you need to test a Travel Portal or an OTA. Techniques we use Basically OTAs are built with an idea of http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=43 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=43 Alex Augustine 5/20/2009 12:00:00 AM There are 2 main choices here. You can either host your OTA inhouse. That is in your own office. This is possible as long as you are having a http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=42 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=42 Alex Augustine 4/7/2009 12:00:00 AM Interserve OTA available at www.interserve.travel was upgraded with more verticals added to it. The new verticals added are Cars, Transfers and Sightseeing (all powered by GTA). The new additions http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=41 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=41 Alex Augustine 3/12/2009 12:00:00 AM We think this is one topic that many people are not that much aware of. Most people feel that if you have a normal account with a supplier, you http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=40 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=40 Alex Augustine 2/3/2009 12:00:00 AM Well this is one of the frequent questions that we have to answer with clients. Rather this should be rephrased as " Do I need an OTA? " The http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=39 http://teknokraaft.com/techbulletin.aspx?nlId=39 Alex Augustine 1/5/2009 12:00:00 AM Interserve launched their B2B OTA with Flights, Hotels and Hostels verticals. The portal is available at www.interserve.travel   Interserve is truly India’s Global Brand in Travel/Tourism/Aviation industry with 50 offices across