Tourvest goes mobile

TOURVEST Travel Services (TTS) has announced that the brands in its stable are implementing a mobile technology strategy.

As of August 23, key customers and suppliers of Seekers, American Express, Cummings Travel, Maties and Indojet will have the opportunity to put the first phase of the TTS mobile strategy to the test.

Louis van Zyl, chief information officer says that this phase focuses on post-air-travel documentation.

“Our objective is to give travellers access to their car and hotel booking information via their mobile devices. Digital images of travellers’ booking vouchers will be sent to their cell phones, via SMS. Customers with web-enabled smart phones will be able to download their vouchers directly to their devices from a URL while customers with non web-enabled devices with receive the URL that in turn can be presented to the supplier, on demand.  The supplier, ie, the car rental company or accommodation establishment, can then access the URL via an ordinary Internet connection to retrieve the customer’s vouchers.”

The pilot phase of the strategy’s first step is expected to last approximately 4-6 weeks, after which both customers and suppliers will be invited to give their feedback, enabling the different TTS brands to refine their offerings.

Read more on this in TNW September 1 edition.

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