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Who can sell rooms of accommodation on OTA channel? What to prepare? OTA or Online Travel Agent is a term translated into Vietnamese as ĐẠI LÝ DU LỊCH TRỰC TUYẾN, selling single travel products and services or service packages such as hotel rooms, tours, tickets. airplanes, bus tickets… for service providers. Purchase and sale transactions are placed through agents (through websites, intermediary applications) and the form of payment can be via payment to an intermediary or directly to a service provider when using the service. service

Procedure to register and start for sale your rooms on OTA channels?

Depending on how the OTA information channel is, the registration steps are different. But basically, you will need to provide information about the name of the accommodation establishment, the types of rooms, a description of the accommodation, description of each room type, the number of rooms open for sale, etc.

What to prepare to sell rooms on OTA channels?

Here are some of the work that needs to be done to set up the initial OTA room sales system

- Get the name of the accommodation (if not already booked) - Survey of actual facilities, advice on naming hotels, room types, room classes - Information/work to be prepared: - Take photos of all types/classes of rooms, the overall hotel (outside) (hire professional photographers) to get materials to sell rooms, promote... If not, we can provide partner information for you. - Register an offline card payment machine (MOTO) at some banks such as Vietinbank, BIDV... to receive payment via banks. - Business registration certificate/household business (if any), CMT/CCCD/HC of the representative under business registration - Provide Email to receive booking information (We support setting up email by domain name if you already have a website and haven't used it yet) - Provide the necessary information according to the above information for us to proceed with the setup of the room sales system Of course, the sale of rooms on any individual host can list rooms for sale on OTA systems such as Airbnb, booking.com, Agoda... However, some OTA channels only accept new registrations from registered accommodation establishments. New individuals can post for sale at all channels because some OTA information channels in Vietnam require a business registration and must issue invoices to partners/or customers (depending on the type of contract). cooperate)

Some popular OTA channels that do not require business registration (update 2023):

Airbnb Agoda booking.com ctrip

Some popular OTA information channels require business registration:

Traveloka expedia vntrip mytour

Some notes for new OTA channel registration

• The registration for the sale depends on the registration area
• In addition to submitting the registration, there must be a review of the content that CSLT has provided.
• Average processing time 1-2 weeks may be longer
• Vietnamese channels must sign a paper contract (vntrip, mytour, gotadi...). It will be applying for same in some countries.
• In addition to registering via the registration link, CSLT can use registration forms from the site to make registration more convenient and faster.

The operation, registration to open and sell rooms on OTA channels is not quite difficult, but you need to have extensive knowledge of setup, operating instructions, your accommodation can make optimal use of it. best. Contact us for advice and implementation of a global room sales system today. With many years of experience in the field of tourism, marketing & sales, SEO, when you cooperate on OTA with us, you will go the right way, go faster, go further.

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