When everyone travels to the same destination, the stories start to lose their significance. Sure, Tokyo is world-famous, but Fukuoka offers that same stunning experience, often at a fraction of the cost and crowd. Or how about Lille? It may not get the same spotlight as Paris, but it has a distinctive appeal.
Now, if both cities are in the same country, only a few hundred miles apart, why are Paris and Tokyo world-famous while Fukuoka and Lille remain underrated? The answer is that there is no easy way to track these hidden alternative destinations offerings, which often stay under the radar for both tourists and travel agencies, even if they offer more authentic experiences than usual tourist hotspots.
With Pline’s intuitive, automated data extraction solution, travel operators can break free from the default and present travelers with alternative destinations beyond the surface backed by the confidence of real-time data.
Symbol or Syndrome
Paris and its iconic landmarks have attracted millions of visitors annually for years. But as the crowds grew, Paris shifted from a symbol of romance to the Paris Syndrome formed by the combination of several factors, including:
- Overcrowding and loss of authenticity
- Increased travel costs for tourists
- Over-commercialization
Now, tourism agencies understand that alternative destinations like Lille in France, a short train ride away, offer a more authentic, less crowded experience.
Still, they often hesitate to break from the default recommendations as they can’t easily collect data, such as hotel availability and transport options, from multiple websites fast enough to support their recommendation and confidently provide personalized options.
Now, with Pline, fast data extraction from multiple websites becomes simple, allowing you to make confident decisions and offer your clients real alternatives backed by real-time data. This includes:
- Access to Exclusive Deals: Pline’s ability to adapt and extract data from multiple lesser-known sources allows travel agencies to find deals that aren’t widely advertised on mainstream platforms.
- Diverse Data with Less Effort: Prebuilt workflows for popular travel websites enable instant data collection without complex manual setups.
- Stay Ahead in Local Markets: Easily create custom automated data extraction workflows for local sites without prebuilt options.
Creating custom workflows might seem a technical challenge, but Pline’s no-code visual interface makes it incredibly easy, even for non-technical users. It allows you to quickly create tailored data extraction workflows, enabling you to explore beyond alternative cities for your clients and uncover alternative modes of transportation.
Explore Alternative Travel Options with Real-Time Data
Traveling is a never-ending contest of supply and demand. What’s the best choice today may not be tomorrow. Some days, taking a plane is cheaper than driving, while other times, trains offer the most cost-effective options. With Pline’s automated data extraction, discovering optimal transport deals has never been more efficient. Here’s how it helps:
- Optimize Travel Choices: Automate real-time data extraction to find the most competitive pricing across airlines, car rentals, and train services.
- Discover Hidden Routes: Discover affordable, faster, and safer alternatives not listed on mainstream platforms faster.
- Faster Vendor Insights: Monitor and evaluate vendor performance on pricing, availability, and service quality to provide the best travel options.
Data extraction makes all this possible, and automated data extraction makes it practical. But what if these powerful features were shared among agency team members so everyone was super productive?
Simplify Collaboration, Amplify Experience
Every traveler is unique, with distinct preferences and requirements. Some travel solo, others with family, and some with pets, each bringing their own needs. To provide an exceptional experience, it’s crucial to tailor services that accommodate all these varying demands.
With team collaboration, travel agencies can efficiently divide responsibilities, allowing different team members to focus on extracting data based on specific traveler needs. This ensures that all aspects of a trip are covered, from accommodation to transportation, and even considers those finer details, providing benefits including :
- Improve Agents’ Productivity: Focus on specific accommodations and accessibility requirements for better efficiency.
- Streamlined Partnerships: Utilize data to strengthen local vendor relationships, secure exclusive deals, and improve ROI.
- Dynamic Demand Response: Leverage cross-department data for fast customer responses and efficient resource management in peak seasons.
With easy-to-use automated tools like Pline in place, data extraction and collaboration become seamless. This allows agencies to leverage real-time data to provide highly personalized services that meet the needs of every traveler.
Easy Steps to Extract Data
With just a few clicks, let’s explore how Pline instantly extracts any data you need, such as hotel details from travel platforms like Tripadvisor.
- Install the Pline extension, open the Tripadvisor listing page, and select Automated Data Extraction Mode.
- Click Build Workflow, choose Vertical List, and group similar items, such as hotel titles, to help Pline recognize patterns.
- Select the fields you want to extract, like the hotel title, price, average review, etc.
- Set up Pagination by choosing the Next Button, as Tripadvisor uses it to display additional movie listings.
- Click Save and Run to start extraction.
Save the workflow and use it anytime. The exact process applies to other similar websites with slight adjustments. Once Pline completes data extraction, export it for further analysis.
Conclusion
Tokyo and Paris are known worldwide, but cities like Fukuoka and Lille hold charms for those who look beyond the obvious. Pline’s real-time, automated data extraction tool lets you quickly collect hotel and transport availability, uncovering affordable options that mainstream sites might miss. This enables you to offer clients a more authentic experience at half the cost and crowd.
So, why go with the predictable when better alternatives are at your fingertips? With Pline, you can give your clients the best options with just a few clicks. Start today and redefine their travel experience.
