Travel and Hospitality Software Development Services
DBB Software builds custom travel and hospitality platforms for hotels, tour operators, and booking portals. We engineer complex booking engines and deep PMS, OTA, and GDS integrations, embedding AI strictly where it drives real business value.
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£300,000+
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12 Weeks
From discovery to a live rail-ticketing MVP
Travel Software Development Services We Provide
Booking engines & fare logic
Journey search, routing, and fare calculation built on official industry data, with split-ticketing, railcard discounts, and real-network pricing.
Ticketing & reservations
E-ticketing with Apple Pay and Google Pay, PDF tickets, seat and inventory holds, delay-repay flows, and real-time disruption alerts.
Multi-modal travel platforms
Trains, buses, and flights unified in one platform. We build combined multi-ticket checkouts, subscription passes, and integrated cashback flows.
Travel portals & marketplaces
Supplier and agency inventory ingested, enriched, and made searchable, featuring custom billing, usage, and performance dashboards for travel agencies.
Distribution & inventory integration
OTA, GDS, and channel-manager connections alongside PMS and CRS integrations, ensuring rate synchronization and exact data reconciliation across systems.
Revenue management & pricing
Dynamic pricing optimization surfaces for revenue teams, featuring performance analytics and account-level configuration across direct web and travel-agency channels.
Travel mobile apps
React Native iOS and Android applications sharing unified business logic, featuring offline-first capabilities, adaptive network uploads, and native image handling.
Hospitality software development
Property management, housekeeping coordination, and guest apps with mobile check-in, plus the OTA and channel-manager connections driving rate availability.
Scope Your Booking Platform Before Any Calls
Describe what you sell, who books it and which systems it has to talk to. Receive a rough scope back for free, before any calls.
Scope My Travel Build
AI Capabilities for Travel
Natural-language search
Everyday language converted into structured queries against your existing inventory, using embeddings to match intent.
Self-explaining results
Search results carry the reasoning for why they match the request, while direct property searches route precisely to the destination.
Travel and hotel chatbots
Booking questions, cancellations, and claim eligibility handled directly from your systems, with handoffs to human agents preserving context.
Automated inventory enrichment
Supplier descriptions automatically expanded and formatted, ensuring consistent listing data is up-to-date across your agency distribution channels.
AI assistant discoverability
Read-only servers allowing ChatGPT and Claude to query your inventory while the actual booking transaction remains securely on your domain.
Guardrails for Travel AI
Search and recommendation decide what a traveler sees and what they pay. We define what a model can reach and measure every change before it ships.
Scored baseline evaluations
We test every prompt against real user data. New agents and workflows are measured against established baselines, never assumed.
Versioned orchestration
Multiple workflow versions run side by side, ensuring new updates are compared against live traffic before fully replacing them.
Inventory-locked search
The AI only reads your official supplier data, considerably reducing the risk of hallucinating non-existent properties, false availability, or fabricated prices.
Predictable inference costs
Our pipelines utilize open-weight models across multiple inference providers, keeping query costs controlled even as search volume scales.
Human-gated transactions
Agents can search, explain, and recommend, while capturing payment and confirming reservations routes safely through your own secure booking path.
Travel Projects We've Delivered
Building AI Hotel Search for a Travel Booking Platform
Challenge:
A travel content platform needed its search to answer a written request instead of a set of filters, and to serve the agencies running on it.
Solution:
Turned a natural-language request into a structured query over existing inventory
Retrieved matching content from agency inventory through vector search
Built a versioned agent orchestration layer from scratch
Scored every pipeline change against evaluation sets built from real prompts
Gave agencies billing and usage dashboards, and opened the inventory to assistants over MCP
Result:
trips described in plain language, measured search accuracy, and a storefront adopted whole.
Building an Analytics Dashboard and Admin Console for an Airline Pricing Platform
Challenge:
An airline-industry pricing platform needed to build and operate the customer-facing analytics dashboard and the internal admin console that sit on top of its autonomous pricing engine.
Solution:
An analytics dashboard for airline revenue teams.
An admin console for customer and user management.
Built AWS infrastructure with Terraform.
Result:
self-serve analytics for airline customers, simplified customer onboarding and management, and continuous delivery across the platform.
Enhancing a Global Travel Platform
Challenge:
The client needed experienced developers to deliver new features, optimize user experience, and maintain mobile and web apps.
Solution:
Developed and maintained mobile and web apps, ensuring parity across platforms.
Implemented advanced booking and subscription features for better user experience.
Expanded deep linking capabilities with new variables and scenarios to enhance re-engagement strategies.
Redesigned and optimized user flows and updated global UI components.
Result:
Expanded product offerings, delivered smoother design and faster flows, and ensured system stability via effective support.
Building an In-House Journey Planner for A Rail-Ticketing App
Challenge:
A UK rail-ticketing startup needed to move its pricing and routing intelligence in-house, because a third-party retail API capped its fares, railcard logic, and roadmap.
Solution:
Ran feasibility and standards research across the UK rail specification corpus, 24 documents read end to end.
Produced a solution architecture and System Design Document with every claim tagged to a primary source.
Designed data engineering pipelines for the industry's official timetable, fares, and routeing feeds.
Built a journey planner engine proof-of-concept with in-house routing, fares, and split-ticketing.
Result:
Autonomous fare computation, native journey routing, and seamless backend swaps.
Building an MVP for a UK Rail-Ticketing Startup in 12 Weeks
Challenge:
A UK startup needed a rail-ticketing product in front of partners within 12 weeks, and a platform that could keep trading once it launched.
Solution:
Scoped a 12-week mobile-first delivery plan across four discovery sprints
Stood up the mobile and backend foundations in 8 hours using pre-built solutions
Built the ticketing backend and the full booking flow, from search to wallet-ready e-ticket
Surfaced split-ticket savings and live travel information from a direct industry feed
Result:
Over £300,000 processed, over 10,000 active users, and demand from over 100 countries.
Testimonials
"We set out a time frame of 12 weeks for the MVP and we hit that. DBB Software’s transparency and use of their pre-built solution cut down the build time. Their expertise has been fantastic — they’re fast learners and delivered an MVP in 12 weeks."
Alfie Willis
Founder, CHOO CHOO
"There was nothing DBB Software could've done differently. DBB Software successfully completed the project's milestones, including an admin panel and data source for customers."
Adam Aly
CEO, Longtail
"They maintain clear communication and steadily work on the project. Thanks to DBB Software's efforts, the client's platform stability has improved significantly."
Amir Ghorbani
CEO, Swoop
“DBB Software delivered the first version in record time. The team continues to work on the website with a sense of ownership and pride in their work.”
Alex Shyba
CTO, Uniform
"The team exhibited excellent ownership and judgment. Delivered fast, accurate work, and made good judgment calls when there was ambiguity."
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Executive, Enchart Inc.
How We Deliver
DBB pairs senior travel engineers with AI agents and milestone-based delivery, so scope, progress and ownership stay clear from the first call to production.
Understand the Outcome
We start with your business goal, travelers and guests, your current booking and property systems, technical environment, constraints, and expected result. We listen first and recommend the right path instead of pushing a predefined package.
Define the Right Engagement
Depending on your needs, we propose a fixed-scope booking engine or travel portal build, an integration layer that connects the GDS, OTA, channel manager, and PMS data you already rely on, or a dedicated team that works as an extension of your in-house staff. You receive a clear delivery plan with scope, milestones, responsibilities, timeline, and budget.
Design the Solution
Our senior engineers define the architecture, the inventory, rate, and availability model, GDS, OTA, payment, and PMS integrations, multi-currency and multi-language handling, security, and the deployment approach. Where AI is involved, we also define demand forecasting and pricing models, evaluation, human oversight, and fallback logic.
Build in Milestones
We deliver working functionality in short, visible milestones, connecting one channel or property at a time. Our engineers use specialized AI agents across planning, development, testing, and documentation, while remaining accountable for architecture, code quality, security, and final decisions.
Validate, Launch, and Evolve
We test booking flows, availability sync across channels, overbooking safeguards, payments, performance at peak demand, and security before release. After launch, we support deployment, handover, monitoring, optimization, and the next channel or market.
Have a booking engine, a travel portal, or a hospitality platform to connect?
Tell us what you are trying to achieve. We will help you determine the right technical and delivery approach.
Mina Morkos
Business Development Manager
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Why Choose Us as a Travel Software Development Company
100+
Skilled
Professionals
We engineer complex travel platforms and embed AI strictly where it drives business value. You receive honest technical guidance, and your team owns the code from the first commit.
Long-Term Partnerships & Support
With 80% of clients staying 7+ years and our team collaborating for over 5 years, we ensure dedicated long-term support.
ISO 27001 Certified
ISO/IEC 27001 certified, with CMMI and ISO standards in the delivery process.
Milestone-Driven Delivery
Scope, milestones, timeline and budget agreed before we start, with working functionality at each checkpoint.
FAQ
Let's Talk About Your Travel Project
"Tell us about your operation: how travelers or guests book today, which systems you connect to, and what's not working.
Whether you need a booking engine, a travel portal, or an integration layer for your GDS, OTA, and PMS connections, we'll get back to you within one business day with an honest assessment and, if it's a good fit, an initial cost estimate."
Mina Morkos
Business Development Manager