Going bullish in Sri Lanka
TravelBullz has now completed five years and has five offices across the world and soon starting operations in Sri Lanka. KD Singh, Managing Director, TravelBullz, aims to revitalise the company as a new one and hopes the next five years to be more dynami
us something about the company and the journey till now.
We have completed five years now and have five offices across the world. The latest addition that we are formally going to announce soon would be Sri Lanka operations. With over 60,000 guests travelling on our network this year, we have over 78 per cent of our business which is completely online B2B business where travel agents make bookings on our web portal. Over 100,000 quotations are made by different travel agents across the world. India is one of the largest contributors to this business but Middle East is picking up at a good pace. We are setting up our own sales team based in Dubai to take care of Middle East and GCC markets.
is the new product that you have introduced?
We have come up with Thailand Series Product as the flagship product. This will continue for the other destinations where we offer at least 20 - 25 per cent discounted pricing to the travel agents and partners which then helps them to increase the GOP on each of their files. This is done or achieved by pre buying a whole lot of inventory with preferred partners across all destinations and it helps us to increase footprint with our customers across the globe.
is the USP of the company?
TravelBullz was formed to revolutionise and redefine the wholesale business in India where quality delivery is the only way to do business. We believe that a happy customer comes back to a travel agent and a happy travel agent comes back to TravelBullz and that’s how the whole chain continues and we prosper.
have you placed the company in the Indian travel space?
TravelBullz from a B2B perspective brings best of both worlds to our travel agents. While we offer most of our products online and seamlessly to all our customers, we also offer human interface through our call centre based in Delhi which helps bridge the gap between an offline and online travel agency business. Right now we are only focussed on outbound but in 2016 we will focus on domestic and inbound tourism which would then make us one of the most comprehensive wholesale companies available across the globe.
helpful the Indian travel agents are for your business?
Travel agents are the reason that we are in business today. We now transact with over 1000 travel agents annually across while we have 2,500 database of travel agents who have earlier transacted with us.