We hope this email finds you well.

We are writing to inform you about an important update regarding our client portal. Effective from the end of July 2024, our current portal at https://phptravels.org will be permanently terminated, and all information will be removed. 

To continue accessing our services without interruption, we request all our clients to sign up at our new portal, https://app.phptravels.com, as soon as possible. If you already have an account, please reset your password to log in.

In case you find that any of your purchase history is missing on the new website, we urge you to open a support ticket immediately for assistance. Detailed instructions on how to open a support ticket can be found here: https://docs.phptravels.com/support/submit-ticket.

We sincerely appreciate your understanding and cooperation during this transition. This move is part of our ongoing commitment to provide you with better quality services and an enhanced user experience. Our product, PHPTravels.com, has also been updated with new features and improvements.

Stay tuned for more updates, which we will be sharing with you shortly.

Thank you for your continued trust and support.

Best regards,

New installer

• Seamless and easy plus quick installation
• Security check-points to secure the website
• Folders and permissions lookup
• Installation documentation guide

New theme

• New user interface
• Minimal level of code
• Bootstrap 5.3 with customized child theme

New File Structure

Because we have moved all the existing frameworks and now we are going totally on CORE and Native concept. We believe in the stabilization of of the product and frameworks or libraries deprecate every every few years. so this time we decided to go vanilla

The software is now divided by 3 parts.
the admin section which has only backend for admins agents and suppliers.
the api section which has all routes and params designed to communicate from database to frontend
the frontend section which is again build with core PHP communicating through restful APIs

Multi-Translation

• Now you can add new languages from admin panel
• The platform is now multi-lingual for admin panel and frontend
• Update add edit the translation through admin panel no more coding
• All the translation files are generated automatically no more database involved

Clean Dashboard

• Super clean admin panel
• Dashboard with all booking stats
• View booking cancellation request dashboard
• Latest visitors 10 ten countries with animated graph

Instant Notification

• Instant push notification on admin panel
• Simple notifications view on left side panel
• No signup or API require the service is built it configured
• Just install the product and start receiving the notifications
• User pusher.com as a backend service

Modules Optimized

• Enable disable modules without page referesh
• Drag and drop modules position
• Edit credentials or setup markups with ease

Bookings

• Manage all bookings on single page now
• Filter bookings with more options
• View booking transactions details for payment gateways

And few optimizations towards

1. User-Friendly Interface: An intuitive interface that ensures ease of use for both customers and administrators.
2. Multiple Payment Options: Support for diverse payment methods, including credit cards, PayPal, and more, to cater to a broad range of users.
3. Real-Time Availability: Instantly updated availability status to prevent overbooking and provide accurate information to customers.
4. Flexible Pricing: Dynamic pricing options for seasonal variations, discounts, and promotional rates.
5. Reservation Management: Efficient tools for managing bookings, cancellations, and modifications with ease.
6. Integration: Seamless integration with other systems, such as property management or CRM software.
7. Mobile Responsiveness: A mobile-friendly design to cater to users on smartphones and tablets.
8. Multi-Language and Currency Support: Global accessibility with support for various languages and currencies.
9. Reporting and Analytics: Generate insightful reports to track performance, analyze trends, and make data-driven decisions.
10. Security: Robust security measures to protect sensitive user data and financial transactions.
11. Customer Support: Prompt and accessible customer support channels to address inquiries and issues.
12. Automated Notifications: Automated email or SMS notifications for booking confirmations, reminders, and updates.
13. Cross-Selling and Upselling: Recommend additional services or upgrades during the booking process to increase revenue.
14. Accessibility: Compliance with accessibility standards to ensure all users can access and use the system.

AND MUCH MORE…

We have also new API for phptravels v9.
The newly api and its information can be found HERE

Conclusion :
These some main points of the phptravels version 9. further now our team is upto provide weekly and monthly new updates as this version has the most advanced and stable features then ever.

If you have any feedbacks please feel free to message over discord at : https://link.phptravels.com/support

Also we highly recommend you to have a look at our newly update versions demo located at https://phptravels.com/demo

And for pricing visit :
https://phptravels.com/pricing

Team PHPTRAVELS

PHPTRAVELS Mission.

We’ve always been committed to driving innovation in the market by working closely with our network of partners. Now we are proud to have a look and logo that represents our values and a mission to lead the global transformation to modern and sustainable travel.

What does this mean for me?

PHPTRAVELS strategic direction and vision for the future remains focussed on providing travellers with outstanding choice, convenience and service from partners in flights, hotels and car hire. By continuing to work closely with you we aim to meet and exceed traveller expectations in a market that is increasingly driven by speed and ease of booking. If you currently display any PHPTRAVELS branding on your website, we would ask that you update it with our new brand version that you can find here.
in your client area at https://www.phptravels.org 

Changelog : 

• Kiwitaxi.com API integration
• Complete new responsonsive theme
• Front-end Upgrade to bootstrap v4.3.1
• Jquery update to 2.2.4
• Backend module page simplified and devided modules in sections
• Added option to checkout website within responsive by yourdomain.com/responsive
• Hotelbeds booking reference column added and bug fixed
• Multi Currency cron auto update bug fixed
• Folder structure for themes now improved and simplified
• Git auto pull feature to domain.com/pull URL for your development env
• Visa module added now you can collect visa details from your clients
• TripAdvisor re-integrated with better structure for hotels module.

Checkout the blazing new version here : https://phptravels.com/demo/
And get your latest copy from : https://phptravels.com/order/

For more details or help please contact us info@phptravels.com

Have a travel agency to promote?

Don’t know where to start?

Don’t worry! We got your back. We are here to discuss five unique ways of marketing your travel agency. 

But before we dive into that, let’s have some background knowledge. We’ll give you an overview of things you must know and work on before actually going out there in the market.

Groundwork and Prerequisites 

There are prerequisites to everything. In this case, we must gather some facts, do a bit of basic calculation, and set a direction before starting anything. That ensures we don’t go off track.

1) Set a S.M.A.R.T Goal

If you really want to start a travel company, you definitely need to make a S.M.A.R.T goal that stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-based. 

Why?

When people make vague goals, they’re less likely to achieve it.

Scientists have proved that people who write their goals, they are more likely to accomplish their goals than people who don’t write them down.

If you’re still unclear, you can see the below infographic created by HydrateMarketing.

2) Know Your Customers

Once you have set a goal, the first step to it is to know travelers who are supposed to buy your services. Your customers are the ones who will help you fulfill your goal. Knowing who these customers are is crucial. 

To have a clear view of your niche, you must create a buyer persona. Now, what is a buyer persona?

Buyer Persona is a character that represents your customers. You must make the buyer persona based on research on your target travel audience. The more specific it gets, the easier it becomes to work around it.

All of your activities revolve around your buyer persona. It defines your target audience. You visualize it in your ads, and it becomes a part of every marketing campaign, which is why your target audience needs to relate to it. 

You might have different groups of your target audience, with different traits and interests. You can divide them into segments, and create a separate buyer persona for each of your customer segments.

3) Costing and Budgeting

Knowing your resources, and how to use them is vital to your business. You need to estimate the total cost of your business, and take your entire budget into account.

With that, you will know what margin you have for marketing and promotion. The allocation of your budget becomes more comfortable when you have an outline in mind. 

Make sure to invest better in things that give high returns on investment.

4) SWOT Analysis

Carrying out a complete analysis of your business can help you develop better marketing strategies. You know what to promote and what needs working. 

SWOT Analysis stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. In this analysis, you get a complete picture of where your business stands in the market, what opportunities lie ahead of it, as well as what areas need more working to prevent losses and make progress. 

You need to understand what are the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats of travel agencies in your area to have a better idea of the business and it will help to make your business successful.

5) Find Mentorship

Having a mentor makes a big difference in life. A mentor can help you make the right decisions about your business. A mentor sets aspiration for you by inspiring you. Most importantly, your mentor sets you in the right direction.

Your mentor should be highly experienced in your field — someone who has been a successful travel agent for years. 

Such mentors can be easily found through social media, the internet, and other means of information. All you have to do is get in touch with them.

6) Using Perfect Travel Agency Booking Software

Using a great travel agency booking software saves your hustle because it can be your travel agent, travel manager, and travel account at the same time.

There are so many solutions in the market, but PHPTRAVELS has created a perfect solution at an affordable rate to handle all your worries in one platform. It has excellent features to promote your travel agency business as well. Check out its demo

Ways to Promote Your Travel Agency

Assuming you’ve done your groundwork and arranged all the resources, you are well in shape to plan out your marketing strategy. Let’s start promoting your travel agency. 

You know your SMART Goal. You have your buyer persona made. You have your budget outlined. You know where your travel agency stands and what lies ahead of it. You have a mentor to guide you. Now you’re set to use these to outline and implement a marketing plan that can catch your buyer persona’s attention. 

Here are a few ways you can boost your results while promoting.

1) Search Engine Optimization

SEO is the process to rank your website in search engines. SEO aids you to get clients from search engines mainly from Google that counts for the majority of the traffic on the Internet.

You need to find low competition keywords in the travel niche market. Low competition keywords are easy to rank for. The keyword Travel would be impossible to rank, but the keyword Travel Agency in New York would be easy to rank for.

Once you’ve found the keywords, you can rank within a year because SEO takes time.

When it comes to SEO, you’ll need to learn:

• On-Page SEO: You need to find a keyword, and you optimize your page. For example, you’ve found a keyword “best travel agency in your CITY”, you’ll use the keyword in your title, meta description and in your article.
• Off-Page SEO: As the term suggests, this part is not under your control. You create backlinks on other sites to rank higher. Make sure you follow the Google Guidelines to make backlinks.

The Best Resources to Learn SEO:

• How to Learn SEO (and Stay Sane)
• SEO Tips That Work (Videos)
• Google Offical SEO Guide

2) Paid Media Ads

Paid Ads are beneficial for leveraging your business if used right. When you know your target audience, you know what type of ads to create for them. There are plenty of channels that offer Paid Ads. 

You can use:

• Google Ads
• Facebook Ads
• Instagram
• Twitter
• LinkedIn Ads
• Youtube Ads

These are the most popular channels among other marketing platforms. They have a broad audience, and their engagement rates are high. You can pick and choose from them according to what your target audience engages with the most.

The Best Resources to Learn SEO:

• Surfside PPC (Videos)
• PPC University (Guide)

3) Influencer Marketing

Influencer marketing is when you reach out to a person that has the right amount of following, and sponsor them to endorse or market your product in their ways. These people are called influencers because they have the power to influence people.

The key to successful influencer marketing is getting an influencer whose followers match your target audience. Instead of going for a person with large numbers of fans and following, go with more niche-specific influencers. 

One reason is pretty apparent, targeting gets precise. Another reason is that influencers with a relatively smaller number of followers can create more intimate experiences. That makes their influence more effective. And they are economical most of the time. 

4) Start a Referral Program

Paid referral programs have been a part of recruitment techniques for quite a while. This tactic can be used in marketing as well. Only, this time, the one referred pays for the referral.

That means you can offer incentives to people to refer you to other potential customers. It can encourage people to perpetuate word of mouth about you. Because they get paid for each customer that walks in with their reference

It can work well for a traveling agency like yours since it builds trust. Which makes a brand stronger. 

5) Giveaways

Giveaways are a great way to create hype about your travel agency. A gift or incentive is something the public often rushes to get. Competitions and activities, the primary goal of which is publicity of your travel agency, can only be successful when there’s something in it for the ones involved. 

Material gifts like lucrative items or cash prizes can work, too, but the best incentive could be related to your brand. Like, a free trip, an air ticket, and some great discount vouchers for your services. A campaign offering giveaways stirs public interest and creates a higher level of engagement than other approaches.

Using all 5 of these combined after doing your groundwork can be a complete marketing strategy in itself. It can work well for each stage of marketing. A good rule of thumb is always to end things on a higher note.

Meaning, make sure the last thing customers experience in your services is the best part of their entire journey with you. After all, the last thing they experience is most likely to be the first thing they recall about having interacted with you. 

Make sure it is something that makes them wanna come back for another deal. 

Aggregation feature 

Aggregation feature what it does and how it can be more beneficial for current existing platform. the aggregation feature will allow us to enable multiple suppliers at the same time and we can also mix the coming data with each other on listing page.

Entirely new theme 

Entire new theme will be more optimised better in terms of performance and of course responsive as usual but with better foot prints and last but not the least the user-friendly feature for operational perspective.

B2B Agents panel

B2B Agents panel. it has been very hard to for to decide to launch b2b panel as it works very differently for each region. for example in west b2b works with commission in middle east there is a topup or credit module but in some other regions it works on cash or pay later feature so we decided to at least start with minimum features and later on we will keep adding more as possible for b2b. but of course the hardest part in b2b is reporting and financial managements which is going to take more time in term of development. but since we already worked with some major b2b groups the approach of idea is very clear now to start with.

there is no exact or expected date for phptravels v8 but we are working very hard to make release the beta as soon as possible hopefully it will be available before end of jan 2021. 

if you think there should be more in the feature list we are always open to collaborate and listen more about the feedback. 

please take 5 minutes and write us at info@phptravels.com

PHPTRAVELS Mission.

We’ve always been committed to driving innovation in the market by working closely with our network of partners. Now we are proud to have a look and logo that represents our values and a mission to lead the global transformation to modern and sustainable travel.

What does this mean for me?

PHPTRAVELS strategic direction and vision for the future remains focused on providing travelers with outstanding choice, convenience and service from partners in flights, hotels and car hire. By continuing to work closely with you we aim to meet and exceed traveler expectations in a market that is increasingly driven by speed and ease of booking. If you currently display any PHPTRAVELS branding on your website, we would ask that you update it with our new brand version that you can find here.
in your client area at https://www.phptravels.org 

Version v7.3  – FEB  10 2020

• CMS dynamic menus option enabled
• Admin blog design improved
• Admin flights page design improved
• Admin hotels design improved
• Admin tours design improved
• Admin cars design improved
• Admin offers design improved
• Admin coupons design improved
• Admin cms pages design improved
• Admin settings page design improved
• Admin supplier accounts design improved
• Admin email templates design improved
• Admin modules design improved
• Admin data tables design improved and optimised
• htaccess warning added to root
• New feature added to edit the position of menus
• Upgraded PHP now officially we support PHP version 7.4
• Travelpayouts Hotels improved integration with better functionality
• HTTPS redirection implemented by default no need to configure anymore
• Fixed multiple rows for availability of rooms availability feature
• Frontend flights selection design improved
• Frontend URL Copy feature added for hotels tours and cars
• Tours module added option to deleted selected location
• Suppliers added commission feature
• Email template new design implemented
• Added discount option for hotels tours and cars
• Widgets feature implemented for tour operators now they can share iframe
• Complete delete all selected contents on back-end dynamically
• Ban by IP featured added to ban any IPs for security measures
• Added by default robot.txt for search engines improvement.

• Code optimization and structure improved
• Homepage and theme design improvements
• Currencies auto update API integtrated
• Currencies cron feature added
• Currency bug auto selection fixed
• Travelhope.com flights API integrated
• Security patches and improvements
• Hotels tours cars added title on details page
• Suppliers dashboard admin statics removed
• Featured added on backend modules to order by numbers
• Blog page added sharethis for social sharing
• Installation checks improved for easy and perfect script installation
• Offers module status bug resolved
• Hotelbeds database connection check on settings page
• Added feature to test website responsive at yourdomain.com/responsive
  
  If you are previous customer and your purchase belongs to this year 2019 then 
  please login to your client area at www.phptravels.org and request your free update. 
  
  To purchase please visit here : https://phptravels.com/order/ 
  Test drive demo version here : https://phptravels.com/order/ 
  
  If you need any further details or support please do mail us at info@phptravels.com or contact us on our livechat at www.phptravels.com

PHPTRAVELS Mission.

We’ve always been committed to driving innovation in the market by working closely with our network of partners. Now we are proud to have a look and logo that represents our values and a mission to lead the global transformation to modern and sustainable travel.

What does this mean for me?

PHPTRAVELS strategic direction and vision for the future remains focussed on providing travellers with outstanding choice, convenience and service from partners in flights, hotels and car hire. By continuing to work closely with you we aim to meet and exceed traveller expectations in a market that is increasingly driven by speed and ease of booking. If you currently display any PHPTRAVELS branding on your website, we would ask that you update it with our new brand version that you can find here.
in your client area at https://www.phptravels.org 

Changelog : 

• Kiwitaxi.com API integration
• Complete new responsonsive theme
• Front-end Upgrade to bootstrap v4.3.1
• Jquery update to 2.2.4
• Backend module page simplified and devided modules in sections
• Added option to checkout website within responsive by yourdomain.com/responsive
• Hotelbeds booking reference column added and bug fixed
• Multi Currency cron auto update bug fixed
• Folder structure for themes now improved and simplified
• Git auto pull feature to domain.com/pull URL for your development env
• Visa module added now you can collect visa details from your clients
• TripAdvisor re-integrated with better structure for hotels module.

Checkout the blazing new version here : https://phptravels.com/demo/
And get your latest copy from : https://phptravels.com/order/

For more details or help please contact us info@phptravels.com

PHPTRAVELS Mission.

We’ve always been committed to driving innovation in the market by working closely with our network of partners. Now we are proud to have a look and logo that represents our values and a mission to lead the global transformation to modern and sustainable travel.

What does this mean for me?

PHPTRAVELS strategic direction and vision for the future remains focused on providing travelers with outstanding choice, convenience and service from partners in flights, hotels and car hire. By continuing to work closely with you we aim to meet and exceed traveler expectations in a market that is increasingly driven by speed and ease of booking. If you currently display any PHPTRAVELS branding on your website, we would ask that you update it with our new brand version that you can find here.
in your client area at https://www.phptravels.org 

Version v7.3  – FEB  10 2020

• CMS dynamic menus option enabled
• Admin blog design improved
• Admin flights page design improved
• Admin hotels design improved
• Admin tours design improved
• Admin cars design improved
• Admin offers design improved
• Admin coupons design improved
• Admin cms pages design improved
• Admin settings page design improved
• Admin supplier accounts design improved
• Admin email templates design improved
• Admin modules design improved
• Admin data tables design improved and optimised
• htaccess warning added to root
• New feature added to edit the position of menus
• Upgraded PHP now officially we support PHP version 7.4
• Travelpayouts Hotels improved integration with better functionality
• HTTPS redirection implemented by default no need to configure anymore
• Fixed multiple rows for availability of rooms availability feature
• Frontend flights selection design improved
• Frontend URL Copy feature added for hotels tours and cars
• Tours module added option to deleted selected location
• Suppliers added commission feature
• Email template new design implemented
• Added discount option for hotels tours and cars
• Widgets feature implemented for tour operators now they can share iframe
• Complete delete all selected contents on back-end dynamically
• Ban by IP featured added to ban any IPs for security measures
• Added by default robot.txt for search engines improvement