For advisors and DMCs
A B2B portal where agencies and DMCs actually transact
A travel agency B2B portal is a shared workspace where agencies and their suppliers exchange requests, proposals and confirmations under one account, instead of trading email attachments. Orelea is a portal of this kind for the agency to DMC relationship: advisors send structured trip requests to vetted DMCs, and every proposal, revision and confirmation for a trip stays attached to that request.
Two different things are called a B2B portal
The first is a booking engine. An agency logs in, searches inventory at contracted rates, and books. That works for commoditised product, where the thing being bought is defined in advance and only the price varies.
The second is a working relationship. An agency describes a trip that does not exist yet, and a supplier designs and prices it. Nothing is in inventory, because the product is being made to order. Search-and-book has nothing to offer here, which is why most tailor-made work still happens over email.
Orelea is the second kind
A luxury trip is specified, not selected. The advisor states dates, party composition, service level and scope; several DMCs respond with what they would build and what it costs. The portal exists to make that exchange structured and comparable, not to list rooms.
- Agencies and DMCs are both verified before they can transact
- Requests go out as structured briefs, so responses answer the same questions
- Proposals, revisions and confirmations stay attached to one trip
- Both sides see the same record, so neither is working from a forwarded copy
Why verification is the load-bearing part
An open marketplace solves discovery and creates a new problem: an advisor now has more suppliers to assess and no basis for assessing them. Volume without vetting shifts the work rather than removing it.
Both sides of Orelea are checked before they can transact, so a DMC receiving a request knows it comes from a real agency, and an advisor approaching a DMC starts from a verified baseline instead of a website and a hopeful email.
What it is not
Orelea is not a source of instant confirmations, contracted rates or live inventory, and it does not price a trip automatically. Tailor-made ground arrangements are quoted by the company that will operate them, because that is who knows what they cost.
What the portal replaces is the sourcing, briefing and comparison work around that quote, which is where the time actually goes.
Frequently asked questions
What is a travel agency B2B portal?
A travel agency B2B portal is a platform where travel agencies and their suppliers transact under verified accounts. Some are booking engines for contracted inventory; others, including Orelea, are workspaces for tailor-made trips where an agency briefs a supplier and receives a designed proposal in return.
How is a B2B portal different from booking a DMC by email?
Email leaves each trip spread across separate threads, with proposals as attachments and no shared record of what was agreed. A portal keeps the request, every supplier response, the revisions and the confirmation attached to one trip, visible to both parties in the same form.
Do DMCs pay to receive requests through a B2B portal?
Commercial models vary across the industry, from subscription to commission to listing fees. Orelea does not publish pricing on this site, so a DMC or agency considering the network should contact the team directly for current terms rather than assume a model.
Can an agency use a B2B portal alongside its existing consortium?
Yes, and most do. A consortium provides preferred-partner rates, relationships and negotiated hotel programmes. A B2B portal addresses sourcing and coordinating the ground operator for a specific trip, which is a different problem and rarely covered by consortium membership alone.