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Guides for inbound travel agencies

How an inbound agency operates today: availability, payments, WhatsApp and administration, told from the inside.

Operations

What is inbound tourism? How an inbound agency works

What inbound tourism is, how it differs from outbound, real examples from Argentina and how an inbound agency or DMC runs day to day.

An agency's bookings screen with sales in pesos, dollars and reais, paid by payment link, international card, Pix and current account.Decision

Travel agency software in Argentina: what the local market demands

What an Argentine agency asks of its management system: two currencies in one sale, instalments, Pix, invoices when the tax service is down, and agency credit.

Administration

How to work out the real profit of every tour you sell

How to calculate tour profitability: per-passenger and per-departure costs, the break-even point, two currencies kept apart and margin per product.

Two phones showing an agency checkout: choosing a payment method and the confirmed booking.Payments

How to take payments from foreign tourists at your agency without losing on the exchange rate

How a travel agency takes payments from foreign tourists: international cards, bank transfers, digital wallets, Pix and local payment methods from each country.

Operations

Software for DMCs in Latin America: what it has to solve before you sign

What a Latin American DMC needs from its software: capacity per departure, a current account per agency, currencies and invoices. And what to ask first.

Operations

How to choose the system for a receptive agency: the questions that come before the demo

What to survey, what to test in the demo and which warning signs to watch for before signing up for a booking system for a receptive travel agency.

Sales

How to build a travel agency quote that clients actually accept

What a travel agency quote needs so it gets accepted: the fields, the order, the expiry date and what a Word template misses, with an example.

B2B network

Selling to other agencies without chasing the debt

How a current account between travel agencies works: net rate, credit limit and settlement, with no rate sheets by email and no side spreadsheet for the debt.

Operations

Capacity per departure: how to stop overselling

Why inbound agencies oversell, and what changes when capacity lives in one place and is subtracted from every channel.