B2B Travel Portal for Travel Agencies in Saudi Arabia

What a B2B Travel Portal in Saudi Arabia Actually Does for You

Take the standard summer file from Riyadh or Jeddah. A family of five or six. Ten to fourteen nights. Two cities in one country, a better hotel for the second half, and a driver waiting at arrivals so nobody has to queue for a taxi with four suitcases and a pushchair.

The flights are rarely where you lose money on that file. The ground arrangements are. Hotels bought at a consumer site's price, transfers booked separately at the last minute, a theme park ticket the client could have bought themselves for the same amount. Each one shaves a little off a margin that was thin to begin with.

A B2B travel portal for Saudi Arabia agencies fixes the buying side. That's the whole point of a B2B portal for travel agents in KSA. You log in, search the hotel, transfer or tour, and see the trade price instead of the public one. You add your margin when you quote the client, and the client pays you. DMC Quote works this way for 10,000+ registered agencies from more than 100 countries, with 1.5M+ hotels in 190+ countries, airport transfers at 15+ airports and 10,000+ tours and activities on one login.

We don't sell flights. Keep ticketing through your airline or GDS channel and use the portal for everything that happens after landing.

Where Saudi Travellers Are Going, and Where We're Strongest

Saudi residents spent about SAR 104 billion on travel abroad in 2024, up from roughly SAR 89 billion the year before, according to Saudi Central Bank balance-of-payments figures reported by Argaam. A big share of trips go to neighbouring GCC states, Bahrain above all, and much of that is short-break traffic that agencies rarely see.

The longer trips are where agencies earn. Wego's search data for summer 2026 put Türkiye, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Morocco and Jordan at the top of Saudi searches, with Vietnam the fastest-growing long-haul destination (searches up around 30% year on year) and Thailand and Indonesia among the most-searched international markets. In summer 2025, five-star hotels made up 37.3% of Saudi travellers' international hotel bookings on Wego. Saudi families trade up when they travel, and that is worth remembering when you quote.

Malaysia deserves its own line. Tourism Malaysia counted 68,382 Saudi arrivals in 2024, up 23.7% on 2023 but still well short of the 121,444 it saw in 2019, and Saudi Arabia is its highest-spending source market. In May 2025 Saudia was the only regular operator on the route, with around 41 weekly flights from Jeddah and Madinah to Kuala Lumpur (TTG Asia). There's room to grow there.

Muslim-friendly travel shapes the shortlist too. In the 2025 Mastercard-CrescentRating Global Muslim Travel Index, Malaysia ranked first among OIC destinations and Indonesia shared fifth place, while Singapore led the non-OIC destinations. An index won't tell you whether a particular hotel's restaurant is halal-certified, though. In Bangkok, Phuket and Bali plenty of good hotels are not, so check the property notes or ask us before promising it to a client who cares.

Now the honest part. DMC Quote is an Asia-first portal. You can book a hotel in Trabzon or Baku through us, because the hotel inventory is worldwide, but our transfers, tours and tickets are deepest in Southeast Asia, the Maldives and the UAE. If your summer is mostly Georgia and Azerbaijan circuits, you will still want a ground handler there. If it's Kuala Lumpur, Langkawi, Bali, Phuket, Malé or Singapore, that's our home ground.

The country pages go deeper: Malaysia, Bali, Thailand and the Maldives.

Visa Snapshot for Saudi Passport Holders (October 2026)

Visa rules move. Thailand changed its whole exemption scheme in September 2026, and Sri Lanka made its tourist ETA free in May. This is where things stand as of October 2026. Check each one again before you ticket, because a rule that was right when you quoted can be wrong by departure day.

One practical point about the Maldives. The immigration officer wants to see where your client is staying, so a confirmed voucher matters. Ours shows the hotel confirmation number once the resort issues it, and says "Pending" until then. If it still says Pending a few days before travel, chase us rather than waiting for the airport.

When Saudi Agencies Sell: the 1448 School Calendar

Saudi demand follows the school calendar more closely than almost any other market we serve. The Ministry of Education approved a four-year calendar covering 1447 to 1450 AH, and the 1448 (2026-27) breaks below come from published listings of it. Treat the dates as approximate to a day and confirm against the ministry before you block rooms. Eid dates depend on the moon sighting.

The Eid al-Adha timing is the interesting one for 2027. It lands in mid-May, before Asia's summer surge, which means resorts that are impossible in July still have room and softer prices. Agencies that sell a Maldives or Phuket Eid package in February will find better availability than the ones who start in April.

Summer is the opposite problem. Your clients travel at the same time as Europe and the rest of the Gulf. Book refundable rates early, hold them, and watch the deadlines (more on that below). Our Eid holiday packages page has ready-made ideas if you want a starting point.

B2B Hotel Booking for Saudi Travel Agents: Rooms, Rates and Deadlines

Most of what goes wrong on a family hotel booking is avoidable at the search stage. Four things deserve your attention before you press Book.

1. Will the family actually fit in the room?

A standard double usually takes two adults and one child. Three or four children change everything. Check the maximum occupancy, the child age bands and the extra-bed policy on the rate, and price two connecting rooms against a suite. Two rooms often cost less, but "connecting" is a request the hotel tries to honour, not a guarantee, so tell the client that up front.

2. Which rate are you looking at?

Some hotels on the portal are available from more than one source. We match them to a single hotel card and list the rate options underneath, cheapest first. The cheapest is not always the one to take. A rate that costs a few dollars more but stays refundable until a week before arrival is often the better buy for a family that might change dates after Eid is announced.

3. What will the client pay at the hotel?

Resort fees, city taxes and Malaysia's Tourism Tax are often collected at check-in, not included in what you pay us. Where the supplier sends those charges, the portal shows them before you pay, and the voucher prints them under "Important Hotel Information". Put them in your quote. Nothing annoys a client more than a surprise bill at the front desk.

4. When does free cancellation end?

Every rate shows its cancellation terms before booking. The deadline you see is deliberately set earlier than the hotel's own deadline, and it is shown in Singapore time (UTC+8, which is five hours ahead of Riyadh). That gap protects you. The portal also sends reminders 24 hours and 6 hours before a deadline, and every rate is marked refundable or non-refundable.

Once a booking is confirmed you get a PDF voucher with the hotel's confirmation number (when the hotel has issued it), room type, meal plan, guest names, the cancellation policy and our 24/7 emergency line, +65 8034 8190. Vouchers are issued by Travel DMC Group, the company behind DMC Quote. If you want the client to see only your agency's branding, send your own itinerary document alongside it.

More detail on how this works is on the B2B hotel booking page and in our guide to hotel cancellation policies.

Paying from Saudi Arabia: USD Wallet and Bank Transfer

There's no riyal wallet on the portal. Saudi agencies normally pick a USD wallet (AED and SGD are available too) and top it up by bank transfer against an invoice the portal generates. The minimum top-up is USD 10, and the SWIFT charge is shown before you send.

The riyal's long-standing peg of 3.75 to the US dollar is what makes this painless. A USD price you quoted on Sunday converts to the same riyal figure on Thursday, which agencies in floating-currency markets can only envy. Your client sees a stable SAR price, and there is no need to pad it for currency risk.

A worked example

Say the portal shows USD 640 for five nights in two connecting rooms at a Kuala Lumpur hotel, and USD 55 for a private return airport transfer. That is USD 695 net, or SAR 2,606.25 at the peg. Add a 12% margin and you quote the family SAR 2,919. Then tell them about the Tourism Tax the hotel will collect at check-in: RM10 per room per night, so RM100 for two rooms over five nights. It is small, but a client who hears about it first from you trusts the rest of your quote.

The numbers are illustrative. The method is the point: net rate, fixed conversion, your margin, then the at-hotel charges listed separately.

Three limits to plan around:

• Card payment isn't available for hotel bookings or wallet top-ups. Bank transfer is the route.
• Most agencies work prepaid. A small number of established accounts have a credit limit, granted case by case by our team, so do not build your cash flow around getting one.
• VAT on your own sales is your business. Saudi Arabia's standard VAT rate is 15%, and how it applies to an outbound package you sell is a question for your tax adviser, not for us.

Our wallet and credit limit guide explains the mechanics in more detail.

Is This the Best B2B Travel Portal in Saudi Arabia for Your Agency?

"Best" depends on what you sell. A straight answer for both sides:

A note on markup. On hotel, tour and transfer bookings you see the net rate and set your selling price outside the portal, in your own quote. The package builder is the exception: there you can apply a markup inside the tool and send the priced quotation straight to the client. For a fuller comparison with other platforms, see our B2B travel portal comparison.

Running a B2B Travel Agency in Saudi Arabia: Licence and Paperwork

Travel agencies in the Kingdom are licensed by the Ministry of Tourism under its Travel and Tourism Services Regulations. The ministry's published service directory lists separate licences for General Travel & Tourism Services and for Tour Operations, each backed by a bank guarantee: SAR 800,000 for the general licence, according to that directory, and SAR 50,000 for tour operations. Branches need their own licence. New tourism regulations were reported in September 2026 with a transition period, so confirm the current requirements with the ministry before you rely on any figure here.

On our side, the paperwork is lighter. The registration form asks for:

1. your company name, business type and address;
2. a contact person with phone and email;
3. which suppliers you use today and roughly how much you book.

For Saudi accounts, the KYC step then asks for your trade licence. IATA accreditation is optional. Our team reviews each application, and you can start booking once the account is approved.

Umrah Agencies: the Other Side of the Counter

Some Saudi agencies sell outbound holidays and look after inbound pilgrims in the same office. The two businesses run on different calendars. For the 1448 season, the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah calendar opened Umrah visa issuance from 31 May 2026, with the last visa issue date on 9 March 2027, last entry on 23 March 2027 and final departure by 7 April 2027.

If that side of your business matters, our Umrah travel portal covers hotels and ground arrangements in Makkah and Madinah for agencies that handle pilgrims.

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