Travel builds, and the handoff each one removed
Three systems running for travel and hospitality operators. Every one replaced a moment where a guest was waiting on a human to retype something.
Travel software is judged on the worst minute of the trip. A booking that did not sync. A ticket nobody can find in an airport with no roaming. Go Real Travel, Cruise Search AI and TomoDomo each removed one of those minutes.
What these three builds have in common
4 things that decide this
- 01All three clients genuinely operate in travel or hospitality, so this is sector experience rather than an adjacent capability claim.
- 02Cruise Search AI is an embedded module inside the client's existing WordPress site, not a replacement for it.
- 03Go Real Travel reported 60% less itinerary planning time and 45% higher customer satisfaction after launch.
- 04TomoDomo runs residents, rooms, bookings and payments for coliving properties across several Swiss cities from one dashboard.
Travel and hospitality systems in production
Three operators, three different bottlenecks
Same industry, three unrelated problems. What the software did followed the bottleneck rather than a product template.
| Build | The bottleneck | What we built | Where it runs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go Real Travel | One-to-one trip planning could not scale. | Concierge platform with an offline mobile companion. | US operator, European trips |
| Cruise Search AI | Travellers scrolled listings and gave up. | Conversational search that returns one valid results link. | Military and veteran cruise booking |
| TomoDomo | Every property ran on its own spreadsheet. | One dashboard for residents, rooms and payments. | Coliving, Switzerland |
- EnquiryFree text, no structure.
- MatchSomeone searches by hand.
- BookRetyped into a second system.
- TravelNo signal, no ticket.
- ReturnNothing learned for next time.
Each of the three builds closed one of these gaps. None of them tried to close all five.
AI search is only useful if the answer is bookable
A chat box that describes a lovely cruise you cannot buy is worse than a filter form. Cruise Search AI validates every request against real ship, port and date combinations before it returns anything.
Your traveller describes the trip in plain words. A couple of follow-up questions turn that into validated filters. Back comes one clean link into the search engine you already run. No new booking flow to maintain.
- Validate against live inventory before you show an answer, not after the click.
- Ask follow-up questions only where the answer changes the search.
- Return the customer to the booking system they already trust.
The layer your guest actually touches
Your reservation system holds inventory and rates. It does not decide whether a traveller finds the right trip, keeps their ticket in an airport with no roaming, or gets an email in the language they booked in.
That is where our builds sit, and they connect to what you already run rather than replacing it. TomoDomo works alongside Abacus ERP and Skribble for Swiss e-signature. Cruise Search AI hands results back to the client's own search engine.
- 01Conversational search validated against live ship, port and date inventory before it answers.
- 02Concierge platforms that let a small team plan tailor-made trips at volume.
- 03Offline mobile companions holding checklists and tickets when roaming drops.
- 04Multi-property operations with multilingual guest email, running across cities.
The stack behind Go Real Travel, Cruise Search AI and TomoDomo
Platform
Integrations
AI
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What travel operators ask us
01Can you add AI search without rebuilding our website?
Yes, and Cruise Search AI is that exact build. It runs as a module inside the client's existing WordPress site and hands results back to the search engine they already had. Rebuilding a working booking site to add a chat box is a poor trade.
02Will automation make our service feel like a call centre?
Only if you automate the wrong minute. Go Real Travel kept human trip designers and automated the confirmations, vendor admin and expense tracking behind them. Guests still speak to a person about the trip, and nobody spends an afternoon retyping a booking.
03What happens when a traveller has no signal abroad?
The itinerary and tickets need to live on the device, not behind a login. Go Real Travel's mobile companion stores checklists and tickets offline. That is the difference between a useful app and one your guest closes at an airport gate.
04Can one system run several properties without losing local control?
TomoDomo does this across Swiss cities. Rooms, residents, bookings and payments sit in one dashboard, while each property keeps its own pricing and house rules. The shared part is the data model, not the policy.
05Do you handle guests in more than one language?
Yes. TomoDomo runs its guest lifecycle emails in English and German. Decide early which content is translated and which stays templated. A half-translated confirmation email reads worse than an English one.
