About Tournet

Luis Macias, a system Engineer (EE/ME, CCNY, of The City University of New York, 1979/1980, specialized in Satellite communications, started Tournet in 1983 to automate the travel packaging industry, its back-office and telecommunications. Thereafter Tournet pioneered many systems that integrated the travel wholesaler with not only its travel agent customers nationwide but also with its suppliers worldwide.

In 1995, Tournet created the first Internet based reservations system, iRES, which put the wholesaler's internal Res system out on the web allowing travel agents and consumers to use the same system as the tour operators' staff. Understanding this had limited scalability, in 2000, Tournet developed Tournet2000 as the operations and back-office system. and travelXML as an independent travel distribution and selling system, retrieving in real time pricing and inventory from distinct GDSs (global Distribution Systems) using their APIs (Automated Programming Interfaces).

Since then, put together these systems are able power not just scalable but powerful and successful travel portals, calculating in seconds complex itineraries with dynamic pricing of hundreds of hotels, airfares and other components, and booking increasingly hundreds of millions of dollars in sales year after year, and still growing today. (see gallery)

About socialITIN

Back in 2007, Tournet decided to be a hosted Selling System, using the same reservations technology, but presenting it with a social interface, blogs, widgets, coupons, chats, etc. Thereby leaving behind the support for back office and operations of the traditional travel wholesaler automation. This led to a focus on the destination and local activities, and as a result Tournet created Destinations Kiosks, Visitors' walls and other products mostly targeted to local tourist bureaus and concierges (see video).

It was not until 2011, that Tournet decided to create from scratch, using all these prototypes, a social network for the travel industry that, contrary to robotic travel portals (in which consumers book and pay on the spot), not only promoted destination products and organizations but that would also inform and educate consumers, by interacting over time directly with destination suppliers, and that actually allow them to book and pay in order to complete perfectly evaluated transactions, we called it socialITINERARY, socialITIN' for short.

Our Products

This is an Alpha version of Tournet's socialITIN, our patent pending technology, a limited participation selling system on a social network