Continuous advancements in technology coupled with a rapid globalisation and growing competition have propelled the Travel & Tourism industry on a rapid transition path. Each Travel & Tourism service provider - state-owned or private - is seeking robust and flexible online solutions with integrated features.
Espire has strategically positioned its software services to cater to the Travel & Tourism industry's insatiable requirements for the most advanced IT solutions. Today, Espire has several case studies to show case that stand testimony to Espire's deep domain knowledge and technology expertise. Espire has fully leveraged its global delivery model & flexible engagement models, quality processes and project management prowess to offer end-to-end services which include bespoke application development, application support and maintenance, software testing and Internet Marketing projects.
Among the application areas, Espire has developed for some of the best known names in Travel & Tourism industry:
- Customer relationship management (CRM) applications
- B2B e-commerce portals
- B2C e-commerce portals
- Back-end processing/ fulfillment applications
- Content management system-driven customer-facing portals
- Line of business software applications
- Search engine optimisation tools
- Online reservation systems
- Web 2.0 systems including social networking Web portals
Espire possesses:
- Domain expertise in travel & tourism, online reservation & booking, inventory distribution, OTA-compliant e-business and Travel 2.0 to better identify the pain areas, comprehend the requirements in a clearer manner and offer better solutions
- Technology expertise to translate the domain expertise into viable solutions
- Rich repository of re-usable components and ready set of test cases to reduce the cost of development and delivery timelines
- Awareness of the key industry requirements like interoperability (OTA compliance), performance, scalability, reliability and security
The following diagram depicts Espire's software services offerings in the Travel & Tourism space:


Espire has had a long and rich record of providing product engineering services to the Travel & Tourism sector ISVs. Espire's full-spectrum software services in this space include:
- New product development
- Enhancing the functionality of the existing products and new version release
- Platform/ technology migration
- SOA-enablement
- SaaS-enablement
- Product testing & quality assurance
- Product support & maintenance
Espire has institutionalised a distinct and self-reliant product engineering practice centre, which comprises a large pool of expert & experienced resources with a strong product mindset and team structures & engagement models, which work as an extension of your own teams. Added to this is Espire's deep-level Travel & Tourism domain expertise.
The Espire Travel & Tourism Sector Product Engineering Advantage:
- 16 years of experience of working with best-in-class independent software vendors from the Travel & Tourism industry
- Huge savings on research & development as well as product development & maintenance costs through Espire's global delivery model
- Substantially quicker time-to-profit through Espire's Travel & Tourism industry domain expertise and technology and process excellence
- End-to-end product engineering services under one roof
- Highly adaptable and accessible top management
- Time-tested, rock-solid quality processes assessed and certified by KPMG at CMMI Level 5 and BM TRADA with ISO 9001:2008
- Fully-secured, amply-redundant offshore development facility at New Delhi, India certified by BM TRADA with ISO 27001:2005
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