Unlock Success in Travel with Sugati: Our Travel Tech Solution!

Unlock Success in Travel with Sugati: Our Travel Tech Solution!

Sugati, based in London, is an end-to-end travel technology platform that helps Tour Operators and Travel Agents and DCM alike sell high touch Bespoke holidays and Group holidays effortlessly.

Empower Efficiency: Sugati streamlines automations and workflows, eliminating double entry hassles. Save time, reduce errors, and focus on strategic tasks for enhanced operational effectiveness.

Branded Quotations and Itineraries: Sugati effortlessly generates stunning quotations and itineraries. Streamline document creation to showcase your luxury offerings consistently, saving time and enhancing professionalism.

Travel Insights Dashboard: Gain a competitive edge with real-time insights through Sugati’s dashboard. Make informed decisions, identify trends, and optimise strategies for superior performance in the dynamic travel industry.

Salesforce Harmony: Seamlessly integrate Sugati with Salesforce for a unified user experience. Data flows seamlessly, enhancing collaboration and efficiency.

Robust Security: Prioritise security with Sugati’s granular access control and two-factor authentication. Safeguard sensitive data for peace of mind whilst you can run your entire business in the cloud.

Seamless Integration: Elevate the client experience by integrating Sugati with your website, present the data on travel mobile apps, make payments online using our payment gateway providers and reconcile the finances in the accounting system.

Global Trust: Join a global client family by choosing Sugati. Align your business with a platform trusted by clients worldwide.

Integrations & Partnerships

We exist because planning an impeccable travel experience is time consuming, challenging and even, stressful. So many details, so many unknowns.

Sugati uses advanced technology, data and market insight to give the travel industry a complete travel management solution for FIT and Group trips.

Come and meet Sugati at LATA Expo

Sugati at LATA Expo

Sugati joins the Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA)

Sugati is pleased to announce our recent partnership with the UK’s Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA), an organisation representing the UK’s leading travel businesses. This is an important milestone for Sugati in reaffirming our position as one of the Travel Technology leaders in the travel sector.

About ABTA

We’ve been a trusted travel brand for 70 years, offering advice and guidance to you, the traveling public, as well as leading the travel industry in supporting high service standards, working with our Members on health and safety, and promoting responsible tourism at home and abroad. ABTA has around 4,000 travel brands in Membership, providing a wide range of leisure and business travel services, with a combined annual UK turnover of £39 billion. Learn more about ABTA here.

Sugati Travel Customer Event

Last week saw our much-awaited Sugati Travel Technology Customer Event hosted at The Petersham, Richmond. We were delighted to see some of our existing and potential customers along with partners from the travel industry and potential investors come together to meet, learn, network and celebrate with Sugati.

Attendees not only witnessed Sugati’s major updates built on top of the Salesforce platform but also they are excited and equally assured by our ambition and constant investment in travel technology innovation.

7 ways to increase productivity with Sugati

Here are seven ways to prepare with Sugati to get ready for the post-COVID era:

Task management. Assign follow-up tasks to relevant consultants. Easily monitor your team’s workload and productivity.
Cancellation and changing dates made easy. With two to three clicks, work out the cancellation charges and deal with the cancellation process efficiently. Better yet, don’t cancel, change the travel dates with a click of a button.
Sugati Travel Insights Dashboard. Know what’s working and what isn’t. All the way from Marketing and Sales to Finance. Use Sugati’s built-in reporting suite to understand more about your business.
Know your customers and send those quotes out. Holiday enquiries are rare these days. Treat the ones that come in like gold dust. Showcase your product knowledge, inspire them with dream holidays and send out branded and beautiful quotes with a view to converting.
Build stronger loyalties with your suppliers. We are all in this together. Suppliers ensure your clients have an amazing experience during their holiday. Know who to talk to at the right time. Provide necessary feedback to them. Arrange those FAM trips. Load the most recent rates and content into the system.
Set up workflow rules to engage internally and externally. Thank you an email, balance notification email, upcoming trip email, welcome back email. Set rules up to engage internally and externally.
Create reports and dashboards. If the Sugati Travel Insights Dashboards don’t satisfy your needs in measuring your business’s KPIs, build your own reports. We provide how-to guides so you can be self-sufficient. Gone are the days where you need to rely on IT experts to build up reports for you.

Get in touch with us to find out more about how we can onboard you in less than six weeks.

Sugati’s Pandemic Support for the Travel Sector

2020 was the year that ripped the travel industry apart.

Let 2021 be the year that brings your business, your customers and your suppliers together! With a strong technology platform in Sugati, you will be well equipped to bounce back and blaze through the pent up demands for travel.

If you are a cost-conscious, small- and medium-sized business, you can now use Sugati on Salesforce Professional Edition which means a saving of 50% on Salesforce license fee plus an additional 20% discount on Sugati license fee.

Built on Salesforce CRM, Sugati is the ultimate end-to-end travel management solution. With Sugati on Salesforce Professional Edition, your team can deal with client enquiries, produce quotes and beautiful itineraries for FIT bookings, manage your group tours, go through the booking process, and provide a connected customer experience throughout the pre and post-holiday journeys.

Schedule a demo to discover how you can get a strong foundation for an even stronger year with Sugati.

Top 13 reasons why you should be switching over to Sugati

Are you taking steps to prepare and adapt for the post-COVID era? Are you looking for smarter ways to run your travel business? Here are 13 reasons to switch to Sugati – the ultimate end-to-end travel management solution, built on Salesforce.

We have all the relevant luxury FIT and Tour features for you to start running your travel business after COVID. Sell those dream holidays to your well-deserved clients.
No double entry. Nowhere in the system do you need to enter the same information twice. Gain that efficiency you have been wanting.
Travel Insights Dashboard. Sugati dynamically captures over 500 data points, giving you timely and relevant KPIs for your business in real-time.
Runs on Salesforce, the World’s No 1 Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform.
Secure. You have full control over who sees what for each individual user or a group of users. You can also restrict the login for certain IP addresses. Set two-factor authentication so even if someone knows your password, they still need a security code from you.
No software. No software. All that is needed is a browser and an internet connection and you are good to go. This means if you want your team to be selling holidays and planning trips from home or anywhere in the world, they can do that on Sugati.
Not just a CRM. It is an end-to-end solution with rich functionalities. This means you can run your entire travel business on Sugati. Know where your potential customers are coming from, gain in-depth knowledge of your existing clients, your trips and have a great relationship with your suppliers.
Extend Sugati. Connect with your website. Link to your mobile app. Give your clients connected experience throughout their holiday journey.
Onboard the way you want to. We have over 200 articles and over 100 how-to videos available for you to quickly master Sugati.
Don’t play catch up. Sugati gives you integrated, innovative and effective AI technology so that you can concentrate on growing your business and looking after your clients.
Premium support. Whether you require friendly expert advice for the onboarding process for the first few months or ongoing additional virtual support use our optional premium support option. Premium support comes with better SLAs and allows you to have a weekly call with our onboarding team.
Generate stunning and consistent looking quotations and itineraries from week one to sell those luxury holidays!
Trusted worldwide. Join a global client family using Sugati. What are you waiting for?

Get in touch with us to find out more about how we can onboard you in less than six weeks.

Sugati reaches new heights of innovation and customer service

Salesforce regularly reviews its partners’ products on AppExchange to reward hard work and excellence.

We’re delighted to announce that Sugati’s innovation and customer service have earned us ‘crest’ (gold) partnership status with Salesforce.

Salesforce places its partners on tiers, starting at ‘base’, then ‘ridge’ (silver), ‘crest’ (gold) and, finally, ‘summit’ (platinum).

Less than 10% of Salesforce partners get this far up the mountain! Being at the crest tier of partnership means recognition of our creativity and commitment to helping our clients, and gives us the opportunity to develop Sugati into an even more integrated solution on the Salesforce platform.

Check out what the team has produced in the past few months: more than 200 how-to articles and over 100 short instructional videos. You’ll find them on our support portal.

Latin Routes has signed up with Sugati Travel CRM

Latin Routes has signed up with Sugati Travel CRM

Built on the Salesforce platform, Sugati is the ultimate end-to-end travel management solution. From the back office to the front desk, every process happens in one app, instead of across multiple touch-points. Tour operators like Latin Routes are working with Sugati to get ready to thrive once more.

“Back in March 2020, we were just about to sign on the dotted line with Sugati, and then the coronavirus pandemic changed everything,” says Martin Johnson, CEO of Latin Routes.

“We had to reassess our business on the spot and the Sugati team has been stellar in understanding our situation.

Latin Routes made the decision that if we needed Sugati prior to the COVID-19 outbreak then we’ll still need it to prepare for the end of the lockdown.

The Sugati team have been super-accommodating in the onboarding process and we’re now using the downtime to master the software and stay ahead of the competition.”

Let us help you prepare for the end of the lockdown. Our team is ready to get you onboard with Sugati today.

Sugati at Travel Technology Europe 2020!

Sugati is going to be at Travel Technology Europe (TTE) 2020.

In 2020, Sugati returns to the Travel Technology Europe (TTE). Sugati has experienced an amazing growth exposure in 2019. We are going to maintain that momentum and accelerate our growth into 2020 and beyond. We are raring to showcase much improved Sugati to the potential clients, partners and suppliers at TTE 2020, happening on the 26th and 27th of February at the Olympia London.

Sugati Travel CRM is a really powerful travel agent software solution built on top of Salesforce CRM, a platform that we love, to provide key travel-centric features.

Our CEO, Tin Aung, our Head of Project Deliveries, Ian Fairhurst and our Business Development Manager, Amir Emami-Zadeh are going to be at our stand, T82. Come and talk to us to learn more about what Sugati has to offer.

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We are celebrating our 5th year at Travel Technology Europe (TTE)!

Sugati is a native Salesforce Travel CRM designed for Tour Operators and Travel Agents. Our clients sell either bespoke holiday or group holidays. Once again, really proud to exhibit at TTE 2019 happening on the 20th and 21st of February at the Olympia London we are excited to see familiar faces and meet up with new ones to demonstrate our fantastic travel CRM solution!

At Sugati, we always innovate ways to solve challenges that tour operators and travel agents are facing on a daily basis. Last year we have released over 50 new features, and our engineers worked really hard to answer many of the practical challenges with technology!

TTE is always a great opportunity for us to showcase the latest version of our Travel CRM. This year is even more exciting because that will be the first year where Sugati will make a free trial available.

Sugati Travel CRM is a really powerful travel agent software solution built on top of Salesforce CRM to provide key travel-centric features. Our stand number is T09 and come by to witness the probably one of the best Travel CRM solutions in the world for travel agents.

Top 10 Travel CRM Features Every System Should Have

Hot on the heels of our last blog: Four Reasons Why Travel Businesses Need a Travel CRM we’re following up with the top 10 travel CRM system features travel agents and tour operators should look for. If you’re evaluating your current system, or investigating whether to invest in new CRM travel technology, read on to find out the deal breakers and top tips from travel and technology experts around the world.

By Claire Matheson

Safety First

Customer data misappropriation, misuse, or outright hacking can destroy a travel company’s reputation. Coverhound Insurance has named data security breaches as one of the top three challenges travel agents face in the line of duty. Choosing a system with strong security is a must.

Larger CRM providers such as Salesforce have vast departments and mind boggling budgets dedicated to protecting your customers’ data. While smaller, independent providers competitively innovate in other areas, there is no bigger incentive to choose a travel CRM system supported by an industry giant.

Get Your Head in the Clouds

When you work in travel, you need to be able to log into your system from your phone or laptop in an airport lounge. Or access it from the backseat of a taxi. Or from any time zone, anywhere in the world.

A system that is available and accessible online, anywhere, anytime is something no travel agent or tour operator can compromise on. Adding on to the previous point, cloud hosted technologies usually provide stronger data security with more advanced authentication. According to SuperOffice, the top reasons businesses should choose a cloud hosted CRM are ease of use and accessibility, reliability, seamless integration and enhanced compatibility. Private hosting in travel has been relegated to the realm of floppy discs and cassette tapes.

Consistently Reliable

If you want to see someone’s worst side, put them in a room with slow, failing or outdated technology. Making a big investment in new tech needs to be smooth sailing. Nobody has time for glitches, shutdowns or data loss.

Microsoft found reliability in technology is an essential elements needed to create trust between businesses and their customers. Over 90% of Americans said they would consider changing brands if they had to deal with unreliable or outdated technology (Source: Bizjournals). So how often does your system go down? Once is once too often.

Feeling Supported

On the off chance something is not working the way you want it to, you need to have access to good support. When investigating a new provider, conduct some research with their current clients. Is online support available? Do they respond quickly? Are regular updates and improvements provided? Is their support actually helpful? Can they get everything working again as soon as possible and keep you informed throughout the process?

Additionally, look for the availability of online training guides or tutorials. This way, you and your team can learn to use all the features, in your own way, at your own pace. Studies of education and training methods show self-paced learning tutorials can significantly improve proficiency. (Source: Brookings) This is why Sugati and technology giants Google, Microsoft, Adobe, Salesforce and Amazon all have libraries of online tutorials, training guides, and learning platforms.

Is Your Tech Talking?

There’s nothing more frustrating than setting up your brand new technology, then finding out it doesn’t sync with your payment gateway. Or that information from your GDS has to be entered manually. Or your mobile app does not support your online bookings. A CRM with an open API can integrate with all of your other travel technology. This is a must have for anyone with a POS or ecommerce site (Source: Hospitality Tech). Because life is easier when everyone just gets along.

Beautiful Documents

Having a CRM that produces your itineraries quickly and easily is fantastic. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be pretty too. Your brand is your business’ identity. As such, your itineraries, invoices and quotes should be tailored to reflect your brand’s aesthetic. It also helps if they can be viewed online or downloaded so your customers do not have to worry about data roaming costs or wifi access while travelling.

For UK based businesses, your system needs to be able to automatically generate ATOL certification at the time a booking is confirmed. Giving peace of mind to everyone involved, this is one more thing you and your customers shouldn’t have to worry about.

B2B Supplier speed interactions pain points

Smooth Suppliers

Among B2B decision makers, lack of speed in interactions with their suppliers is the number one pain point, mentioned twice as often as price (Source: HelpScout). Travel agents and tour operators often deal with a large number of suppliers on a daily basis. Communication needs to be easy and frequent.

A CRM system that automates emails, invoices and documents such as manifests is a huge time saver. Look for other winning organisation features such as payment queueing and scheduling, timed reminders, and margins and commissions. Because nobody likes a double booking or having to chase an unpaid invoice.

Keep It Simple

It goes without saying but we’ll say it anyway, your CRM should link to your mobile booking platform. This link between your customers and users needs to be simple and easy to use for everyone involved. If sales processes are too difficult or complicated, 74% of people are more likely to switch brands (Source: HelpScout). The majority of travellers who book their holidays online do so because of convenience.

Sugati’s latest client to go live with their system secured their first online booking within minutes from a retired couple. A whopping 92% of baby boomers now choose to shop online, including for travel(Source: Miva). Regardless of how tech savvy your users and customers are, your system should be easy to use. Your CRM system should make the facilitation of excellent customer service easier. It should deliver agent attention where and when it is needed to help keep things simple, and running smoothly.

Automation Transformation

With every job, there are fun tasks that you look forward to doing, and there are daily chores which are not so enjoyable. CRM automation can cut your housekeeping significantly when implemented well. Improved workflow rules may help you discover a better way of working, or allow you to cut a number of steps from your processes altogether. Overall, an automated CRM can also be one of the best tools for your team to do more with less.

Additionally, automated functions and communication don’t have to be wooden or robotic. The wonderful world of chatbots (which Sugati can integrate with) are proof that automation can be tailored to deliver welcoming, personalised and branded customer service. This is particularly important considering 53% of people are more likely to shop with businesses they can interact with (Source: Sprout Social).

Measure Twice, Market Once

When spending big on items like holidays, sometimes it takes many interactions before a customer makes the decision to book. Other times, connecting at the right time means capturing that impulse buy. At every point in a customer buying process, there is a moment when you win them over. So how do you tell which interactions are the most successful? You can find your ROI sweet spot by tracking and reporting all your campaign data. The results may surprise you.

Positive experience customer recommendation

Above all, your CRM technology should help you and your team go the extra mile. It should facilitate the smooth running of your business, and help you present a more polished feel to customers. Unquestionably, it must give your customers (and your staff) a positive experience. Because 77% of customers who have a positive experience with a company go on to recommend that company to others. (Source: HelpScout)

Sugati ticks every one of the boxes in this list. If you have questions about whether a travel CRM is right for you call or email us. Or if you’d like to see the powerful Sugati system in action, click the Request a Demo button at the top of the page.