Booking engines
Flight, hotel, tour, and activity booking engines with real-time availability, multi-currency, multi-language, and conversion-optimised checkout.
INDUSTRIES · 06Software for the journey, end to end
Travel software that books, prices, and surprises guests well.
Booking engines, channel managers, hotel PMS integrations, dynamic pricing, loyalty platforms, mobile travel apps — built for the operational complexity of moving people across borders, languages, currencies, and time zones. We've shipped travel platforms with 14 languages, 12 currencies, and the OTA integrations that make them work.
What we build
Travel & Hospitality software, six common starting points.
Six of the most common engagements we ship for travel & hospitality clients — usually starting as a focused build and growing into a longer engagement.
Hotel management systems
PMS integration, channel manager wiring, rate plan management, and front-desk tools — designed for the operational reality of independent hotels and small groups.
OTA & channel manager integrations
Booking.com, Expedia, Airbnb, Agoda — channel manager integration with rate parity, inventory sync, and reservation pull-through to your PMS.
Dynamic pricing
Demand-based pricing models using historical data, competitive scraping, weather, and events. Yield management for hotels, tours, and ancillaries.
Loyalty & CRM
Points, tiers, member rates, personalised offers, and the data plumbing to connect bookings, stays, and on-property spend across the guest journey.
Travel mobile apps
Consumer travel apps with booking, itineraries, e-tickets, boarding passes, loyalty, and offline access for the flight without WiFi.
Use cases
Three deployments worth showing.
Real travel & hospitality builds where the engineering paid for itself within months.
Direct-booking engine
Conversion-optimised direct-booking engine for a 12-hotel group — multi-language, multi-currency, integrated with the channel manager and PMS. Lifted direct bookings substantially.
+27%direct bookings
12hotels live
Multi-day tour booking
Custom booking engine for multi-day guided tours — multi-traveller pricing, optional add-ons, payment instalments, and supplier integration.
14languages
+34%completion
Activities & experiences
Marketplace for in-destination experiences — supplier onboarding, real-time availability, reviews, mobile vouchers, and supplier payouts across 8 countries.
8countries
99.7%payouts on time
Compliance & standards
Built to pass the audits, not just to ship.
Modern web and mobile front-ends with SSR for SEO (Next.js, Nuxt). Backend on Node.js or Python. Booking integrations with GDS (Sabre, Amadeus, Travelport), bedbanks (Hotelbeds, EAN, RateHawk), and channel managers (SiteMinder, Cloudbeds, eZee). Payment via Stripe, Adyen, or local processors. Search via Elasticsearch or Algolia.
PCI DSS
GDPR
Multi-language
Multi-currency
WCAG AA
GDS / Sabre / Amadeus
How we work
Six steps from travel & hospitality workflow to production software.
Most engagements start with a 2-week discovery sprint — a fixed-price scoping exercise that produces a clear plan and budget.
01
Travel workflow audit
We map the customer journey — search, compare, book, pre-arrival, on-trip, post-trip — and identify the friction points worth fixing.
02
Integration scoping
Which OTAs, channel managers, PMSs, GDSs, payment providers — costed honestly and prioritised by ROI.
03
Design & UX
Booking-flow design with checkout optimisation, multi-language support, and accessibility baked in.
04
Build
Two-week sprints with real availability data and real test bookings against sandbox supplier APIs.
05
Integration
OTA channel manager wiring, payment provider integration, email and SMS notification flows.
06
Launch & optimise
A/B testing on checkout, dynamic pricing tuning, and the SEO + paid-media wiring that drives direct demand.
Frequently asked
Travel & Hospitality software questions.
Can you integrate with our channel manager or PMS?
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Yes. We've integrated with SiteMinder, Cloudbeds, eZee, Little Hotelier, Hotelogix, and custom PMSs via REST APIs or webhooks. For closed PMSs without APIs, we build adapter layers. Channel manager integration covers two-way rate and availability sync plus reservation pull-through.
Do you integrate with Booking.com, Expedia, and other OTAs?
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Yes — either directly via OTA APIs (where available) or via a channel manager that handles distribution to multiple OTAs from one inventory source. Most clients prefer the channel manager approach because it scales to 50+ OTAs without per-OTA engineering work.
Can you build dynamic pricing for hotels or tours?
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Yes. We build demand-based pricing models that combine historical bookings, competitor rates (scraped or via Rate Insights / OTA Insight), pickup velocity, day-of-week patterns, and event calendars. Most clients start with rule-based dynamic pricing and graduate to ML-based models once they have enough data.
How long does travel software take to build?
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A focused booking engine ships in 12 to 20 weeks. Full multi-channel travel platforms with PMS, channel manager, and loyalty integration typically take 6 to 12 months. Mobile travel apps ship in 10 to 16 weeks. The biggest variable is integration scope — every new supplier API adds setup time.
How much does travel software cost?
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Travel projects at Appsmediaz typically range from $20,000 for a focused booking engine or PMS integration to $300,000+ for full travel platforms with multi-supplier integration, dynamic pricing, and loyalty. We provide fixed quotes after a 2 to 4 week discovery sprint.
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