For Indian travel agencies & corporate planners

Prepare a hotel-and-group-size land-rate request

Use a request matrix to make supplier rates comparable. Fix the dates, room-sharing basis and service assumptions before asking for alternatives across hotel categories or passenger numbers.

Tailored to the actual briefIndia office, New Delhi

Turn the opportunity into a defined file

The decisions behind the proposal.

A hotel-category label does not establish a named property, location or room configuration. A group-size band does not establish which services are priced per person, room or vehicle. Request the precise basis for each alternative and record what changes when the participant count falls. International and domestic airfare should be separately marked rather than inferred from land package. This page contains no contracted allotment or instant-login rate table. The public matrix defines the enquiry; confidential dated proposals provide the commercial amounts.

Illustrative brief to adapt

A rate matrix with one changing variable

When comparing hotel standards, hold the dates, passenger count and transport basis constant. When comparing group sizes, keep the hotel and route constant instead. Changing several assumptions at once makes the apparent rate difference hard to interpret and can produce an offer that cannot be operated as sold.

Different choices. Different implications.

Compare the service specification

Prepare a hotel-and-group-size land-rate request: request options
ChoiceWhat changesQuote / planning context
Hotel standardRequested category and locationAsk for actual property and room basis
Party sizeThe real adult/child and rooming fileCheck shared and per-person components
ValidityDates, release and payment conditionsReconfirm after material changes

A file-control structure

Trade operating file · 7-day sample brief

Adapt these stages to the actual agency file and supplier agreement. They do not confirm inventory, commercial terms or an operating commitment.

  1. Stage 1

    Agency brief

    Identify the file type, dates, passenger assumptions and requested service standard.

  2. Stage 2

    Route and suppliers

    Define nights, movements and preferred versus acceptable alternatives.

  3. Stage 3

    Commercial review

    Check validity, inclusions, currency and payment conditions in the written proposal.

  4. Stage 4

    Pre-operation

    Reconcile passenger details, rooming, dietary requests and actual flight sectors.

  5. Stage 5

    Delivery and changes

    Use named contacts and the agreed approval process for amendments.

Keep the whole journey visible

Commercial and movement context

Arrival and return planning

Assign ticketing and flight-change responsibilities separately from ground handling. Arrival schedules must be reconciled with the final passenger file.

Requested arrival
Gateway agreed in the agency file
Requested departure
Gateway agreed in the final operating version

Quote-specific trade terms

Trade terms are quote-specific and confidential. Record passenger count, rooming, currency, validity and supplier release conditions before resale.

No public net-rate table or allocation is implied. Discuss the actual currency, units and validity directly.

Specific to this package decision

Four questions worth resolving.

Can the same rate apply to two and fifteen travellers?

Not without checking the cost basis. Vehicles, guiding, rooms and special services can scale differently, so request explicit participant assumptions.

Are hotel allocations held by submitting the matrix?

No. Any hold, allotment or release period needs separate written confirmation from the relevant supplier.

How should a single supplement appear?

Identify the occupancy change and the applicable amount in the confidential quote. Do not derive it from an unrelated retail headline.

Can a previous tariff be reused after dates change?

Request reconfirmation. Date, availability and supplier-condition changes can invalidate the earlier commercial basis.

For the broader background, read our vietnam b2b land rates: quote requirements planning reference.

Confidential commercial discussion

Prepare a trade proposal request.

Include the company contact, operating file, rooming and approval requirements. Net terms are discussed directly; no confidential tariff is displayed on the public page.

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