We build booking platforms, trip planners, tour marketplaces and hotel apps for founders and operators in the US, UK and EU. Live inventory, clear pricing and bookings that hold when the traveller arrives.
Travel software has one job that outranks all others: the booking must exist when the guest turns up. Availability that lags by an hour, a price that changes between search and payment, a confirmation that never reached the supplier. Each one produces a stranded customer and a refund. Reliability is the feature.
appico is an AI-amplified product agency based in India, building for travel founders, hotels and tour operators in the US, UK and EU. AI compresses scoping, design concepts and front-end work. Senior engineers handle architecture, supplier and payment integrations, security and hardening. A website starts from $1,000 in about 5 days, an MVP from $10,000 and a mobile app from $12,000 in about 30 days. You pay by milestone and own the source code, domain, hosting and supplier accounts from day one.
Search, availability, pricing and checkout for hotels, rentals, tours or transport, connected to live inventory.
Supplier listings, calendars, capacity limits and vouchers, with payouts to operators.
Itineraries built from real, bookable options, with opening hours and travel times checked against data.
Check-in, room service, upgrades and local guides, linked to the property management system.
Connections to channel managers, booking APIs and property systems, so availability matches everywhere.
Language, currency and date formats handled properly, with prices shown in full.
The standards that usually apply in the US, UK and EU. We build to the ones your product needs and tell you plainly which those are.
Combining travel services in one sale can make you the organiser, with liability for the trip and insolvency protection duties.
Card details for bookings and deposits should be handled by a compliant payment provider, never stored in your own database.
UK and EU payments usually need two-factor approval, which matters for deposits, delayed charges and no-show fees.
Passport details, travel dates and guest preferences are personal data that need secure storage and deletion after their purpose ends.
Consumer rules in the US, UK and EU expect total prices with mandatory fees included, and booking flows should meet WCAG.
We identify each supplier API or system, its access terms and its update speed. This sets what the product can honestly promise.
AI-assisted concepts become a staging link by day 3, covering the full path from search to booking confirmation.
Engineers connect suppliers and payments, and handle price changes, sold-out results and failed confirmations without charging the customer wrongly.
We make and cancel test bookings with each supplier and check every field arrives correctly. A 14-day bug-fix window follows launch.
Cached results make search fast and bookings wrong. Availability and price must be rechecked at the moment of payment.
Selling flights, rooms or tours together can make you legally responsible for the whole trip in the UK and EU. Know this before designing bundles.
A booking stored in the wrong time zone puts the guest there a day early or late. Dates need one clear rule across every system.
Resort fees, cleaning fees and taxes revealed at checkout lose bookings and can breach pricing rules. Show the total early.
A website for a hotel or operator starts from $1,000. A booking MVP starts from $10,000 and a mobile app from $12,000. Each supplier integration adds work, so the number of inventory sources is the main cost driver. We quote a fixed scope with milestone payments before starting.
Yes, provided you have or can get commercial access. Many travel APIs require a business agreement, and some need accreditation or a deposit. We check access during scoping and build against the supplier's test environment. API contracts and any usage fees are in your name and paid by you.
A website takes about 5 days, a well-scoped MVP about 7 days and a mobile app about 30 days. Supplier approvals can take longer than the build itself. We develop against test environments while approvals are in progress, and you have a staging link by day 3.
Yes, if it is grounded in real data. We connect the model to live inventory, opening hours and travel times, so it recommends only what can be booked. Free-form AI suggestions with no data behind them produce confident errors, and in travel an error means a customer standing outside a closed door.
For guest-facing items such as tickets, itineraries and maps, yes. Travellers lose signal on planes and abroad. Saving confirmed bookings on the device is simple and worth doing. Offline booking is different. It cannot work, because availability and payment need a live connection to the supplier.
Yes. We build language, currency and date formatting into the architecture, not as a later add-on. Prices are shown with mandatory fees included. We recommend launching with the languages of your first market and adding more as demand shows, since every language also needs translated support and emails.