We have been working on the next phase of the tours module over this past 6 weeks and have prototyped the solution that will allow tour operators to embedd their own tours into their own website and allow customers to book tours online.

When a custoemr / prospective customer visits your site they will be able to choose from your tour list.

and see a detailed itinerary of your tours.

and any other information you with to include.

including videos.

before the book

We will put up a demonstration site within the next week or two so you can play with the functionality with some demonstration data / tours.

If you would like further information on this functionality - don’t hesitate to contact us.

We are working on a new website for TravelManager (www.gotravelmanager.com) and we expect it to be live within the next 2 weeks. We will have more info, more video, more help and more ideas.

Watch this space.

Regards

Dean

The TravelManager team in Ireland attended “DevDays 2009″ to meet with other iPhone developers as well as Apple Engineers. It was a great opportunity to meet with fellow iPhone developers and we’ve even got a few people interested in developing on the TravelManager API’s!!

Everyone really liked the look of our iPhone App so we thought we’d share it a few pics with you:

***Main Menu in TM App

***Open Quotes in TM App

One developer in particular has created an iPhone App for Dublin Bus timetables so that was really interesting for us to meet someone providing solutions for the same industry. More on that in the next few weeks as we start to finalize on iPhone apps (yes we’re going to have more than 1 App).
The conference highlighted the need to have a few Apps in the iTunes store and also for focus on multilingual offerings as most iPhone users really like to work in the native language (so lucky TravelManager can be language independent them )

**We’re thinking about attending WWDC in June as the DevDays 2009 event really highlighted just how huge the iPhone is going to be after the next update in June. Any iPhone developers interested in developing iPhone Apps for TravelManager should  join us in attending WWDC before the end of  April. (If the interest is high, in even just attending the event in June it makes sense to go as a group??)

I suspect this event is going to be a huge one that could the trip of a lifetime

Regards,

Eamonn

*Weekly TravelManager rollout today will be posted about tomorrow..

The BBC has an interesting update on Microsofts next generation operating system once it retires windows.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7540282.stm

Currently named, Midori, it has the Internet at its centre and focuses on user mobility.

All the stuff we believe in at TravelManager then

Dean

TravelManager attended the latest Global Passenger Network conference at the end of March and we also presented in Tel Aviv. The event was hosting by Maya Tours the GPN member for Israel and despite my delays out of Terminal 5 in Heathrow I made it to the meeting (only just).
The technology presentation included all the latest news about TravelManager and more importantly how this was going to help GPN not only get more business via the Internet but also provide a tool to market the group more effectively.

Presentation in Israel

All the members are 100% committed to the GPN technology effort and they’ve been providing the translation of the quotation widget for us.

**Even the new Russian member that joined less than 2 weeks ago has already provided the Russian translation!

Regards,

Eamonn

This morning we rolled out a number of improvements to the platform. They include:

- Netherlands version of the quotation widget
- IMG Shareholders Library Widget (for all IMG related documents)
- Implementation of price per km for our European partners
- AM / PM as well as 24 hours clock  for times
- Google Map of all offices and radius on profile screen
- 32 small bug fixes / performance improvements found through new testing process.
- 7 Feedback requests from Users including amendments to the “Quotes Response Performance” report and European Language Quotation Widgets.

This week we also sent a number of the developers on Google Android training as we will be developing widgets for this platform during the next 3-6 months

We have 30 outstanding feedback requests from users. We will be working our way through these during the next couple of weeks as well as focusing significant effort to testing the beta version of our iPhone application

Regards

Dean

This weekend we rolled out to live a number of API’s for 3rd party developers. These API’s are being used in the iPhone and Google Android applications as well as by 3rd parties to integrate their software solutions in with TravelManager.

We have also completed a number of feedback requests such as more information on the PDF versions of the quotes and invoices as well as a radius reporting graph on the profiles page.

Regards

Dean

If your interested in getting in on the beta program then send an email to info @ gotravelmanager.com with your iPhone / iPod Touch UID number and we will add you - so you can start playing around with the application as soon as it comes online

Regards

Dean

TravelManager is pleased to announce support for the following languages on the quotation widget.

1. Czech
2. Danish
3. English
4. Estonian
5. French
6. Finnish
7. German
8. Italian
9. Polish
10. Romanian
11. Spanish
12. Swiss

Thank you to everyone who helped with the translations, a true team effort there  More languages to follow next week so keep them coming. We will then start to translate all of the emails and other areas of the application soon after.

Regards

Dean

We have now rolled out to live the Polish, Finnish & German versions of the quotation widget.

An example can be found on the GPN site.

Regards

Dean