Leveraging a sophisticated “rules-based” shopping engine, Galileo Neat Agent allows Apollo agents based in the United States to personalize air, hotel and car ‘travel packages’ from literally hundreds of travel options for a given itinerary, with a single ‘total-price’ for the package inclusive of their agency fees and all taxes. Galileo Neat Agent is planned for global roll out in the near future.
Supplier Benefits:
Neat’s Dynamic Packaging engine provides a powerful and cost-effective tool for increasing sales and managing yield through an extensive network of multiple distribution channels, including both Neat Online and via Galileo Neat Agent opportunities:
- Opaque Pricing: Inventory is sold only when combined with another travel component. Pricing is never revealed to the traveler, other suppliers or the distributor Web site.
- Bookings are non-refundable, non-transferable and non-cancelable, with total revenue for the trip payable at the time of booking.
- Bookings and payments are processed electronically using existing distribution technologies – reducing management overhead and reconciliation processes.
- Supplier discretion to facilitate quoting of the appropriate product and price according to the distribution channel, trip characteristics, and other travel components
- Suppliers take no inventory risk. There are no external blocks or blackout dates to manage. All sales are subject to the pricing and rules defined by the supplier.
- Pricing in fully yieldable rates with no pre-market pricing commitments. All taxes and mandatory fees are automatically calculated and payable in local currency.