CTS is a low cost Corporate Online Booking Engine that was engineered to work as an electronic travel agent; it searches like an agent, works with profiles like an agent, books like an agent, and file finishes like an agent. On the client side, CTS works like a travel arranger by enforcing corporate travel policies, applying corporate discounts, and pushing preferred suppliers.

Searching

CTS™ makes searching easy with its All-in-One search, allowing users to add hotel and car to their search simply by clicking a checkbox. CTS™ offers one-way, round-trip and multi-leg searches with the ability to search by schedule or search by lowest fare. In addition, CTS™ provides a suite of advanced search options. CTS™ will automatically re-price your selection(s) and offer low-fare alternatives.

• All-in-one search for Air, Hotel, and Car
• One-way, round-trip, multi-leg searches
• Search by schedule or lowest fare
• Integrated hotel and/or car search on each leg
• Book multiple passengers with a single request
• Support for Rail alternatives
• Ground Transportation (limo/car service)
• Trip Templates
• Search by corporate or user-defined Points of Interest

Air Results

CTS™ saves time and money with its unique air results display. Streamlined for the user, CTS™ sorts its results by preferred airline and indicates preferred airlines so they are visible when the user re-sorts the results. CTS™ also allows vendor exclusion. CTS™ enforces travel policy with hard and soft policies to either prevent or discourage users from booking outside of policy (configurable by a corporate travel administrator). Negotiated fares are shown wherever possible and automatically applied when booking.

• Matrix display allows results to be filtered by price, airline and number of stops
• Automatic re-pricing and low fare alternatives
• Sort by Preferred Carrier, Price, Departure Time, Arrival Time
• ITA shopping engine offering hundreds of results in real-time , or GDS shopping

Hotel Results

CTS™ offers hotel results for corporate users that rivals the leading leisure travel sites, with brilliant color photos and useful hotel information. Streamlined for the corporate user, CTS™ sorts its results by preferred hotel and indicates preferred hotels so they are visible when the user resorts them. CTS™ also allows vendor exclusion. CTS™ enforces travel policy with hard and soft policies to either prevent or discourage users from booking outside of policy (configurable by corporate travel administrator). Negotiated rates are shown wherever possible and automatically applied when booking.

• Hundreds of results in a single search
• Rich content and hotel descriptions
• Photo galleries
• Crown ratings
• Area maps
• Compare hotels
• Sort by: Preferred Hotel, Name, Price, Rating

Southwest SWABIZ Integration

CTS™ is the first and ONLY corporate online booking tool to offer FULL CONTENT via a Direct Connection to the most widely used airline-owned corporate travel site: SWABIZ. CTS™ populates city-pairs, dates, times, reward numbers and form of payment, directly into SWABIZ. But it doesn’t end there, CTS™ then writes passive segments back into the GDS that allows for customer support, accounting and reporting.

• Save Time: view all Southwest content on one booking tool - no more sea
  rching multiple sites
• Save Money: access full Southwest content including web only fares and
  your corporate negotiated rates
• Security: keep track of all of your travelers, where they are and
  what they are spending

Car Results

The unique matrix used to display car results allows users to compare results and see more options at one time. Streamlined for the corporate user, CTS™ sorts its results by preferred agency and indicates preferred agency so they are visible when the user re-sorts the results. CTS™ also allows agency exclusion. CTS™ enforces travel policy with hard and soft policies to either prevent or discourage users from booking outside of policy (configurable by a corporate travel administrator). Negotiated rates are shown wherever possible and automatically applied when booking.

• Matrix display by price for car agencies and sizes
• Sort by Price or Preferred vendor

Travel Policy Management

CTS™ offers two levels of policy management. Hard policies prevent users from booking out of policy altogether. Soft policies require the user to go through an extra step of notifying their travel manager of the reason for the policy violation, allowing the user to complete a booking while keeping management informed. Travel administrators can create any number of travel policies and assign them to one or more users.

• Rule-based travel policy editor
• Soft policies allow violations with justification and notification to manager
• Hard policies prevent violations completely
• Unlimited travel policies

Profiles

CTS™ offers a flexible and extensible profile management system with real-time two-way synchronization between CTS™ and the GDS. CTS™ pulls in the GDS profile for billing information or profile edits. If the profile is changed, it is immediately written back to the GDS. This allows the agent and the user to work with the same profile. CTS™ can be customized to use the agency’s profile format or one of several standardized formats used by many nuTravel clients. Fields can be added to the CTS™ user interface to support each agency’s unique needs.

• Two-way synchronization with GDS
• Custom Mapping to fit Agency’s GDS format
• Configurable User Interface fields

Billing

The CTS™ billing process is simple, easy and clear. A step by step process takes into consideration travel profiles for easy selection of predefined information and also allows the user to override that information with user input. Items can be removed from the billing page without having to re-search. Billing summaries and confirmation make it clear to the user what they are purchasing and when.

• Secure billing process
• Cost break down displayed for each component you are reserving
• Ability to save information as a trip template from billing page
• Ability to remove items from the billing page without having to re-search

Itineraries

CTS™ offers a rich itinerary page; well organized and functional. With CTS™, users can store multiple segments from multiple content providers on the same itinerary. CTS™ offers the user the ability to add, edit, or remove segments to/from the itinerary. Users can print or e-mail the itinerary with or without accounting information to themselves, a business associate or even their spouse. Itineraries can be saved as trip templates for easy re-booking of common trips. Users can even download their trip to their calendar application.

• Named Itineraries
• E-mail itinerary with or without billing information
• Seat Selection
• Add/Edit trip segments
• Single PNR for all segments
• Super PNR includes non-GDS content
• Save itinerary as a trip template
• Export to calendar applications
• Driving directions to/from airports, hotels, and points of interest
• Area maps, weather, city guides, etc

Speed

CTS™ is faster than the rest. With a streamlined design focused on fast results, users will notice the difference in speed between CTS™ and other tools or internet travel sites. CTS™ delivers results, lots of results, fast.

• Typical page response in 0.125 seconds *
• Typical page load less than 1.5 seconds (50 air results) *
• Typical search time less than 10 seconds (NYC to LAX round trip low fare) *
• Typical search time less than 8 seconds (NYC to LAX search by schedule) *
• Complete booking in less than 30 seconds (search to PNR) *

* Results based on T1 connectivity.

Security

nuTravel takes security as seriously as you do. CTS™ offers strict security; from intrusion detection mechanisms to browser security, CTS™ goes the extra mile to keep your personal information safe. CTS™ is secure, from its access controlled data centers to it’s connection to users and content providers.

• Intrusion Detection
• One-way data encryption of passwords
• PCI Compliant
• 128-bit AES Encryption
• Access Control

International Support

CTS™ offers support for multiple languages in multiple countries and regions. By grouping language, currency, and date/time formats, CTS™ can accurately support multiple languages in the same country or region. CTS™ offers automatic currency conversion for foreign vendors and side-by-side currency comparison, showing the vendor’s actual price and the amount in local currency. CTS™ allows the user to change the default locale with a single click from any page.

• Multi-lingual support
• On-the-fly language and locale switching from any page
• Automatic currency conversion and comparison
• Date, Time, Currency, Language bundling for regional support

GDS Connectivity

CTS™ connects to every major GDS and will continue to expand its connectivity as the opportunity arises. CTS™ offers native GDS shopping in addition to enhanced and regional 3rd party content providers.

• Sabre
• Apollo / Galileo
• Amadeus -COMING SOON
• Worldspan -COMING SOON

Additional Content

CTS™ brings more content to the user. With connectivity to 3rd party content providers, users have access to Internet in addition to tradition GDS content, removing the need to search outside the system or bypass their travel agency. By removing this need to shop outside, CTS™ is able to enforce travel policies on all content and save companies money. Information for 3rd party bookings can be stored as passive segments in the GDS, allowing agents to service their clients.

• SWABiz (SouthWest Airlines Direct) integration
• Direct Connect to 8 Airlines
• Passive Segments for 3rd party bookings
• Car/Limo Service (GT3)
• Consolidated and discounted hotel inventory – coming soon
• Amtrak
• Airport Parking – coming soon

Corporate Administration

CTS™ offers a great deal of administrative functionality to the corporate travel administrator. From user administration to policy administration, CTS™ allows the corporation to customize the system to meet their needs. CTS™ makes managing your online booking tool simple.

• Create and maintain travel polices
• Maintain Preferred and Excluded Vendors
• Create users, administrators, and travel arrangers
• Create and maintain Travel Resource links
• Corporate defaults for searches
• Maintain corporate Points of Interests
• Maintain custom content on CTS™ homepage
• Language support selection

Travel Agent Administration (Integrate with your existing travel agency)

CTS™ allows the travel agent to perform all of the corporate administration of a site in addition to it’s own agency administration, making it easier for them to support their customers. The agency administration in CTS™ allows the agency to tune the system to perform in the most cost effective manner. Travel agencies can modify all the parameters necessary for CTS™ to operate like one of their own travel agents.

• Create and maintain Travel polices
• Maintain Preferred and Excluded Vendors
• Create users, administrators, and travel arrangers
• Create and maintain Travel Resource links
• Maintain GDS settings at Agency & Corporate levels
  • Maintain queues
  • Maintain HIC Codes
  • TAW line configuration
• Maintain Air discount codes
• Set PNR account codes
• Corporate defaults for searches
• Maintain corporate Points of Interests
• Maintain custom content on CTS™ homepage
• Enable/Disable passive segment creation for non-GDS content
• Language support selection