Hospitality
Travel Agency Suite
Quote a costed itinerary in minutes, collect every commission you are owed, and send every traveller off with flawless paperwork.
Independent travel agents, homeworkers and hosted advisors under a host agency or consortium, DMCs, and small tour operators in the UK, US, and UAE who sell bespoke trips across many suppliers, live on WhatsApp and email, and want to win the enquiry race without hiring back-office staff.
Illustrative failure hypotheses
Questions for the audit to verify
Enquiries going cold while a bespoke quote is built by hand: travellers message several agencies and book with whoever replies first, so every hour of quote assembly is lost bookings
Hours each week burned copying supplier confirmations, PDFs, and rates into client-ready itineraries, the most-reported operational drag in the trade
Deposits and final balances not chased on schedule against travel dates, creating cash-flow gaps and last-minute cancellations close to departure
Pre-departure admin done manually per booking: ATOL and ABTA paperwork in the UK, visa and entry checks for UAE outbound, insurance prompts, all error-prone and slow
Post-trip silence: satisfied travellers never prompted to rebook next year or refer a friend, leaving the highest-LTV audience dormant
Planning fees left on the table or under-priced at quote time, despite travellers demonstrably paying real money for professional trip design
Proposed starting point
A pilot hypothesis to review
Designed role · approval required
Itinerary Quote Builder
Turns a qualified trip brief into a branded, costed, day-by-day itinerary in minutes instead of the one to two hours it takes by hand.
A bespoke quote takes one to two hours by hand, so most enquiries go cold before they are ever chased. Forward a WhatsApp or email brief and a costed, branded itinerary goes back within minutes while the traveller is still deciding. It attacks the number one time sink and the number one booking leak at once, and the speed gain is measurable in week one before any other agent is configured.
Designed playbook
Proposed work streams and roles
These are configuration ideas to test during an audit. They are not autonomous workers or evidence of a live deployment.
Forma Core
Runs under every suite. The shared operating spine: front desk, follow-up, reputation, owner reporting, cash, and content.
Designed role descriptions ↓Close ↑
Front Desk
Captures and triages every inbound (email, web form, missed call, DM), then replies, classifies, and routes it to the right place.
Follow-Up Engine
Runs persistent, polite multi-touch follow-up on every quote, no-show, and stalled enquiry until it converts or is cleanly closed.
Reputation Engine
Asks happy customers for reviews at the right moment, drafts replies to every review, and routes negative feedback to a human first.
Owner's Digest
Compiles the weekly (and on-demand) operating picture into a plain-English brief: what happened, what's at risk, what needs a decision.
Money Flow
Issues and chases invoices, tracks AR aging, and reconciles payments so nothing slips and cash comes in faster.
Content Engine
Turns the brand kit into a steady cadence of social, email, and blog content, ready for one-click approval.
Enquiry to Itinerary
Turn raw WhatsApp and email briefs into qualified trip briefs, costed branded itineraries, and correctly priced fees, at reply-first speed.
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Trip Brief Qualifier
Converts a raw travel enquiry into a structured, scored trip brief with dates, party, budget, and style, ready for quoting before an agent touches it.
Itinerary Quote Builder
Turns a qualified trip brief into a branded, costed, day-by-day itinerary in minutes instead of the one to two hours it takes by hand.
Quote Freshness Watch
Watches live quotes for fare, rate, and availability changes and re-prices them so no traveller ever receives a stale price.
Fee & Upsell Prompter
Surfaces the right planning fee and the right ancillaries (insurance, transfers, excursions, seats) at quote time, so revenue that clients willingly pay for stops being skipped.
Commissions & Cash
Reconcile every supplier commission and enforce deposit and balance schedules against travel dates, so the agency collects everything it is owed.
Designed role descriptions ↓Close ↑
Commission Reconciler
A proposed role to scope and validate before any pilot use.
Deposit & Balance Keeper
Builds the payment schedule for every booking off its travel and supplier deadlines, then collects deposits and final balances on time, every time.
Pre-Departure & Compliance
Assemble the complete travel wallet for every booking and keep visa and entry requirements current per destination.
Designed role descriptions ↓Close ↑
Pre-Departure Pack Builder
Assembles the complete client travel wallet for every booking: tickets, vouchers, ATOL and ABTA paperwork, visa documents, and a day-one-ready itinerary.
Visa & Entry Rules Watch
Keeps visa, passport-validity, and entry requirements current for every booked destination and alerts advisors the moment a rule change touches a live booking.
Groups & Departures
Run group trips, retreats, and fixed departures with rooming lists, per-person balances, and payment plans handled automatically.
Designed role descriptions ↓Close ↑
Group Departure Coordinator
Runs group trips, retreats, and fixed departures: rooming lists, per-person balances, payment plans, and traveller manifests without spreadsheet chaos.
Repeat Travel & Seasonal Demand
Bring travellers back for next year's trip and fill peak booking windows with destination campaigns timed to the season.
Designed role descriptions ↓Close ↑
Welcome-Home Rebooker
Times the welcome-home message, the next-trip tease, and the referral ask so this year's traveller becomes next year's booking instead of going silent.
Seasonal Destination Campaigns
Plans and runs destination promotions timed to peak booking windows: summer Europe, ski, Umrah and Hajj, Eid getaways, and early-booking waves.
Measurement design
Candidate measures to baseline
These labels do not claim a result. The audit must define the source, window, method, baseline, and owner before a metric can support a pilot decision.
Enquiry-to-quote time
Minutes from a traveller's first message to a costed, branded itinerary in their hands. The trade's decisive metric: whoever replies first wins the booking.
Quote-to-booking conversion rate
Percentage of quotes that become confirmed bookings, lifted by fast turnaround, fresh pricing, and relentless follow-up.
Commission recovery rate
A candidate metric; its source and baseline are not yet defined.
On-time balance collection rate
Percentage of deposits and final balances collected by their scheduled date, protecting cash flow and preventing cancellations near departure.
Planning-fee attach rate
Share of trips carrying a professional planning fee, revenue clients demonstrably pay for and many agencies still skip.
Repeat and referral booking share
Percentage of bookings from returning clients and their referrals, the highest-margin demand an agency can own.
Advisor hours saved per week
Time returned from itinerary assembly, document packs, and reconciliation, the manual data-entry burden agents report as their biggest operational drag.
Connector boundary
Availability is scoped per controlled pilot
Connector names in the internal playbook are planning inputs, not a public integration promise. Current code-live readers are bounded and require account-specific verification before use.
See the commerce pilot boundaries →Audit first
Validate the playbook against your operation.
Pricing, scope, data access, review boundaries, and success measures are agreed in writing before any paid work.
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