This new solution enables travel professionals to quote and confirm tailor-made group trips – including all the services the client may wish to add, such as buses, guides, hotels, restaurants, activities, and transfers across multiple destinations – and to operate them automatically, from supplier request to confirmation and on-route execution.
“With the Group Engine, we bring Travel Compositor’s automation to the most complex area of tourism: tailor-made groups. We’ve moved from fragmented, manual processes to a single digital flow that will save thousands of hours per year and accelerate time-to-quote and time-to-book like never before,” says Manuel Aragonés, CEO of Travel Compositor.
Solving the industry’s biggest challenge
Tailor-made group trips involve multiple suppliers, cities, schedules, restrictions, dynamic rooming, and last-minute changes. Until now, most travel companies have relied on spreadsheets, emails, and phone calls. The new Group Engine unifies it all into one seamless system that:
- Allows price forecasts and group contracts to be uploaded internally or via an extranet by suppliers, or through automated Excel table uploads.
- Performs multi-service and multi-destination quotations, combining buses, guides, hotels, restaurants, activities, tickets, transfers, and special services across one or several countries, with real-time pricing and availability rules.
- Automates supplier requests and purchases, sending RFQs (requests for quotation) with smart templates, consolidating responses via the supplier extranet, and suggesting the best combination based on price, availability, or contract terms.
- Issues automatic confirmations, cancellations, or allotment holds with full traceability of each item and versioned proposals.
- Integrates operations with live rooming lists, vouchers, incident management, and last-minute changes through intelligent re-routing.
- Supports financial control through margin tracking, management of deposits and penalties, approval workflows, and full audit trails.
The Tour Guide App: the group in the palm of your hand
The Group Engine can also be complemented by a mobile app for tour guides, centralizing daily trip operations:
- Minute-by-minute itinerary, contacts, and documents.
- Passenger check-in and attendance control.
- Service details, maps, and meeting points.
- Optional excursion management, sales, and reporting.
- Group and individual operational chat.
“The app turns the guide into a true digital orchestrator. Everything stays synchronized – what happens on the route is instantly reflected in the office, reducing errors, calls, and operational costs,” adds Aragonés.
Key benefits for the industry
The Group Engine delivers:
Commercial speed: from days to minutes to deliver competitive, personalized proposals.
Massive efficiency: automation of repetitive tasks and greater focus on higher-value work.
Real scalability: ability to manage more groups with the same team.
Accuracy and control: full traceability, reduced margin leakage, and visibility of P&L per trip.
Superior experience: streamlined communication with suppliers and enhanced traveler support.
Setting a new standard for tailor-made group travel
With the Group Engine, Travel Compositor extends its end-to-end automation to one of the most manual segments of the travel business. The company expects this innovation to boost productivity, improve conversion rates, and shorten the sales cycle in B2B and group travel markets.
The Group Engine will be available to Travel Compositor clients for immediate deployment, with customized plans for each company type and tailored onboarding for potential new clients.
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