Travel Industry

Our focus in travel is planning and reservation automation. The building blocks of any travel experience are the sights, activities, meals, transportation, and lodgings. Put it together in a travel plan, and you have an itinerary. A person doesn’t have to have to craft an itinerary to have a great trip experience, but a good plan has merit. When it comes to professional tour planning, outstanding travel itineraries are highly valuable (and protected) intellectual property. They are much more than merely a series of events. They engage activities and narrative content that delight the traveler. They have the “right” pace, and flow well because they have been designed well. Reservations. Tickets. Travel Times. Cuisine. Capacity. Flow and pace. These are all critical facets of an outstanding itinerary. The travel plan could be for two persons or two hundred.
Currently, there are many itinerary builders that can quickly create simple illustrative itineraries. Itineraries that emphasize attractive pictures dates and catch phrases with a skeleton framework and are effectively limited to sales and marketing purposes only. This category serves a purpose; however, PTS recognizes the need for a product that builds a trip plan based upon the preferences and interests of the traveler or group.
The PTS “TripSynk” software project is focused a new paradigm in trip planning; creating intelligent functional “smart” itineraries. The itinerary is designed from the venues and events, a “bottom up” approach. A truly “smart” itinerary should automatically begin building a plan based upon the basic elements of what the traveler wants to see and do. The user begins by defining a geographic location to visit and allows the algorithym to present the things to do, see, eat, and lodge nearby. As venues and activities of interest are selected, these become the building blocks of a changeable draft itinerary.
Using current methods, creating a trip plan that is useful for planning (e.g. features reservations, actual timing, etc.) is very time consuming because the user is entering the information instead of selecting the information.