Part of our Operations agents
AI agents for operations teams in travel agencies
Actionist is an AI automation tool whose agents operate the apps your travel agency operations team uses. Turn supplier confirmations, deadlines and schedule changes into checked drafts for your coordinators.
Every departure rests on dozens of supplier confirmations and dates that one missed email can quietly break.
AI Employees for Travel Agency Operations in 4 simple steps
Manual Time
We'll go over where you currently waste your time doing manual tasks.
Actionist Automations
We'll show you exactly how Actionist can automate these manual tasks.
Your Benefits
How much time and money you'll save by onboarding AI agents.
Easy to use
We'll show you how easy it is to enable AI across your business.
Where you spend your time
We know how your week actually goes
A travel agency operations desk is the part of the business travellers never see and rely on every day: the supplier confirmations, ticketing time limits, hotel allotments, rooming lists and ground arrangements that turn a sold trip into a trip that works.
Every supplier message, amendment request and traveller-facing update the agents prepare waits for your coordinator to approve it. The agents record and draft; a person decides what to accept, release, rebook or cancel.
- Every element confirmed, none assumedCheck each hotel, transfer, flight and excursion for a supplier reference, and list what is still outstanding.
- Deadlines on one boardTicketing limits, option dates, allotment release dates and name-change cut-offs gathered into a daily list by urgency.
- Itineraries that match what is bookedCompare each day-by-day document with supplier confirmations and flag any date, time or name that no longer lines up.
- Group lists that stay trueKeep rooming lists, headcount against allotment and dietary notes current as travellers confirm or change.
- Schedule changes understood fastWork out what a retimed flight or cancelled room knocks on to, and draft the amendment request for a coordinator.
- Built around your coordinatorsThese are examples of what an operations agent can do. Build a custom agent for any supplier task your desk repeats.
And hundreds of other tasks you do manually..
An agent can take a lot off your team's plate. Take a look below to see the time and cost you could save by adding AI agents to your Travel Agency Operations team's day.
Where the hours go
A booking goes to a tour operator or a hotel group and then the confirmation lives in a portal nobody has time to open, so coordinators log into five extranets each morning just to learn that a reference they assumed was held never arrived.
An agent works through the open-booking list each weekday, reads each supplier portal or reply email, records the confirmation reference, and drafts a chase for any element still unconfirmed, for the coordinator to approve and send.
An airline retimes a flight by two hours and nobody notices until the transfer, the first hotel night and the day-one tour all no longer line up, because the itinerary was last edited before the notice arrived.
An agent reads each schedule change notice, works out which hotel night, transfer and tour start it knocks on to, and drafts the amended itinerary and supplier requests, leaving the coordinator to decide what to accept or rebook.
Ticketing time limits, option dates and allotment release dates sit in a spreadsheet that only works if someone remembers to open it, so a held fare lapses or a block of rooms is released with a penalty date missed.
An agent builds a daily deadline board from the booking records, posts the items expiring soonest to Slack with the booking and the person who must decide, and drafts extension requests for approval.
A group of twenty means twenty names, bed types, dietary notes and arrival flights chased by email, with the hotel's rooming list cut-off arriving before the last traveller replies.
An agent keeps the master rooming list current from traveller form responses, compares confirmed headcount with the allotment, and prepares the hotel-ready list ahead of the cut-off for the coordinator to check and send.
Actionist Will Automate
What one automation looks like
A week with your Travel Agency Operations agents
Some of the apps for your Travel Agency Operations team
Some of the operations apps your agent operates for a travel agency desk. Hundreds more are in the Actionist App Store.
Your Agent wakes up Automatically whenever something happens
Your agents watch the apps you already use and act the moment something happens, usually within about a minute, handle it based on your instructions, 24/7.
Use cases for this team
Your benefits
Where the time goes back
What you do manually today
What your agent runs for you
- Operations300 min / weekChasing confirmations across supplier portals
A coordinator signs in to each operator and hotel portal in turn, reads the status of every open booking, copies references into the tracker and writes chasers one at a time, before the day's own work starts.
Operations Agent0 minAgent sweeps portals and drafts the chaseThe agent works the open-booking list each weekday, records references it finds and drafts one grouped chase per supplier, which the coordinator approves and sends.
- Operations180 min / weekTracking ticketing and allotment deadlines
A spreadsheet of time limits and release dates that only works if someone opens it each morning and reads the dates against several supplier contracts and inboxes.
Operations Agent0 minAgent builds the daily deadline boardThe agent reads the tracker and contracts, sorts the dates by what expires first, names the coordinator who owns each, and posts the board to Slack before the desk opens.
- Operations210 min / weekMaintaining a group rooming list
Chasing twenty group members by email for names and bed types, retyping each reply into a master list, and finding two people asked for the same roommate on the day of the hotel's cut-off.
Operations Agent0 minAgent keeps the list current from form repliesThe agent updates the master list as forms arrive, flags room type and roommate conflicts, and prepares the hotel-ready version as a draft for the coordinator to check and send.
- Operations150 min / weekReconciling ground handler service sheets
Reading each service sheet next to the itinerary for pick-up times, names and flight numbers, and finding the wrong time only when a traveller reports an empty arrivals hall.
Operations Agent0 minAgent compares each sheet with the itineraryThe agent files each service sheet and lists any difference with both versions shown, so the coordinator takes it up with the partner before the traveller is on the road.
- Operations240 min / weekWorking out what a schedule change breaks
Opening the notice, finding every booking on that flight, then checking hotel nights, transfers and tour starts one by one to see which no longer fit.
Operations Agent0 minAgent maps the knock-on and drafts amendmentsThe agent matches the notice to the bookings, shows old and new times against each connected element, and drafts supplier amendments for the coordinator to accept, rework or discard.
What that's worth
Calculate what your team saves
Based on typical team usage: the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~9 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.
How easy it is to use
We'll do all the heavy lifting for you.
From entering your website address to having a working AI team, no effort from you.
- Step 1
Enter your website
- We'll research your business
- Automatically configure everything for you
- Step 2
Actionist Auto
Optional- Watches you work
- Creates your agents, workflows and schedules
- Step 3
Marketplace
- Hundreds of apps, plus agents and workflows
- Pre-configured by other users
- Step 4
Invite your team
- We'll automatically onboard them too
- Focus on the things that matter
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See exactly what Actionist would automate for your business.
You stay in control
An agent that reads supplier portals and drafts amendments only earns its place if you stay in control. Configure it so a coordinator approves every message to a supplier and every change to an itinerary, and so each flagged item shows where it came from.
Chase emails, extension requests, amendment requests and updated itineraries are saved as drafts for a coordinator. Anything for a traveller goes to the sales or support desk as a draft, never straight out.
The agent records fees, fare rules and contract terms and shows the knock-on effects. A coordinator decides whether to accept a change, release an allotment, extend a hold or rebook.
Each difference or deadline is listed with the email, portal screen or contract it came from, and the time it was read, so you can check a claim before acting on it.
Give the agent only the portals, mailboxes and folders the job needs, and keep credentials with the coordinator. Keep passport and payment details out of prompts unless approved, and check provider terms first.
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Frequently asked questions
Does my operations team need to be technical to use this?
How do I get started with Actionist for travel agency operations?
How do I make customised AI agents for how our coordinators work?
How quickly can we set Actionist up?
Our files hold passports, rooming lists and payment details. How is that data kept safe?
Our tour operator extranets and the GDS have no API. Can the agent still read them?
Will it send a chase or an amendment to a supplier without us seeing it?
Can it decide whether we accept a schedule change or release an allotment?
Departure peaks double our supplier traffic. Can the agents keep up?
See an agent turn a schedule change into a checked amendment
Book a free demo and watch an Actionist agent read an airline notice, find the bookings it touches, mark up the itinerary, and queue the supplier amendments for your coordinator to approve.