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Riya’s unique connect

- Hazel Jain

Riya Travels and Tours has seen an impressive website growth of around 15-16 per cent year-on-year. Now in its 11th year of being active in the B2B space, Riya Group is seeing a lot more of its partners coming online and this has a lot to do with the unique features that the company has introduced on its portal.

Riya Travels has always attempted to introduce new features and developmen­ts for its agents, reveals Manoj

Samuel, Director, Riya Group, He says that the company has aggressive­ly over the years. “On a year-on-year basis, it 11 years now and we can see a lot more of our partners coming online. Currently, we have around 30,000 partners Speaking about the added its agent partners, he says, “Riya has always tried to come up with new features and developmen­ts for our agents. We have recently added travel insurance on our online portal which was other also have Queue Ticketing, a transactio­nal module where travel partners can queue their PNRs to us, retrieve the PNR on this module and issue the ticket through our retain their segments and earn commission on these tickets. There is no dependency of sending email and calls for ticket issuance, or any other manual interferen­ce. Refunds and cancellati­ons will also be Through ‘Queue Ticketing’, agents can do ticketing without depending on anyone from the company.

Riya Connect adds value

Riya connect started as a lone a bouquet of travel products range of ancillary services like real-time ticketing status with the convenienc­e of seat and meal selection. “We are not stopping here; we are constantly trying to come up with new things to make everything easy for our agents. We have something called the ancillary services which nobody else in the like meals, baggage, etc – everything other than your

We have Queue Ticketing, a transactio­nal module where travel partners can queue their PNRs to us, retrieve the PNR on this module and issue the ticket through our IATA-accredited website

main booking. Today, we are they do the booking they don’t waste their time in doing the baggage, meals, etc. We have given them an option to do it separately once the main This is also online and there is no need to call up the call centre for this or call the airline or travel agent through whom the booking has been made. Riya also has travel insurance on Riya Connect and is working on a few other things that will be added soon. “We will soon be coming up with new trade activities. We also have plans to add new features to Riya connect and promote Riya Business Travel. We have also decided to try a lot of Samuel adds.

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Manoj Samuel Director Riya Group

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