TravTalk India Online Magazine
MyTravelBazaar.com is an online portal launched by brothers Bhavesh and Suprabh Oza, second-generation entrepreneurs who have taken the time to understand the pain points of the B2B players in India and used tech to resolve many challenges.
Hazel Jain
In a sea of online travel agencies that we see in India today, one stands out powered by the legacy that it carries. MyTravelBazaar.com (or MTB) is a new online tool – a brainchild of brothers Bhavesh and Suprabh Oza. It has been designed keeping in mind the ever-evolving needs of travel agents all over India and its cutting-edge technology offers seamless bookings for all travel-related products like air tickets, IRCTC train tickets, hotels, activities, and transfers.
Bhavesh Oza, Director, MyTravelBazaar.com, says “We also wish to get the global inventory available to our agents with just a click. We want to offer our agent partners a white-label solution so that they can remain competitive in the global market. During my interaction with travel agents, I saw couple of challenges like high tech cost, high manpower cost and at the same time maintaining relationship with their customers. What we realised was that no travel portal in this country is offering all these solutions on one single platform.” So, they decided to fill this gap themselves by conceptualising and developing a platform which covers all these things. MyTravelBazaar.com offers a viable solution so that agents are competing with global giants, he says, adding, “At the same time, it offers multiple fare types so that they have content richness which brings down their manpower cost. This way, our travel agents are not only relevant in the market, but they are also very profitable.”
Moreover, the air ticketing content has also evolved and keeping this in mind, MTB offers GDS, LCC, NDC, SOTO, and series fare at just a click of a button. “We ensure that the content richness is available to the travel agent, when they are talking to their passengers. The second important bit is the technology. We have about 100-plus features on the portal, including the family fare option. MTB ensures agents can get all information,” Oza adds.
Technological edge
Speaking about the technology behind this platform, Suprabh Oza, Director, MyTravelBazaar.com says, “We have integrated around 40+ APIs in this. These consist of airline APIs wherein we have connected with the GDS, with LCC, with NDC products, as well as SOTO. In hotel also, we have connected more than 20+ APIs, which is helping us to provide content from around the globe. Around 1 million plus hotels can be on our portal. At the same time, we have connected with multiple payment gateways and ICICI bank virtual account networks also.”
