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There are travel agencies which are still managing travels and tour packages manually. Too many papers are wasted daily to check on tours and collaboration among departments in the travel agencies is difficult.

Walk in to a typical travel agency and you see stack of papers on the shelf with all tour itineraries, some may even be outdated. If you are lucky enough, you get a good pricing for your tour because the travel agency did not update the pricing or tours on a real-time basis.

Main challenges for travel agencies include business operations, costings and employee management.

Business Operations Challenges
- Updates of travel packages were not applied across all departments and branches, affecting front desk staffs selling packages with old pricing – incurring losses
- Difficulties for front desk staffs to check on updates as there were no online, centralized database
- Break-down in communications among departments and difficulty to communicate among branches

Costing Challenges
- Tremendous amount of papers used and wasteful printings for travel packages and itineraries – incurring extra overheads
- Employees need to work extra hours to complete checkings and coordination manually – incurring extra employees wages
- Communications using traditional methods including faxes, scans, phone calls and land lines incurring additional costs

Employee Management Challenges
- Fraud of employees punching cards for each other, making losses for extra overtime payments
- Leaves are managed manually without accuracy and often miscalculated
- Additional employees needed every end of month to calculate working hours to compute payroll  Read more...