As a travel professional, you looked forward to the BAS Day every year.
You were updated by various parties, the novelties of the booking system were shown to you and you also saw your industry peers again.
But times are changing and the BAS day is no more.
That’s a shame, and that’s why Fadiro, the company behind BAS, is going all out at the upcoming edition of TravDay on October 8 in Amersfoort. For those who don’t know BAS: It is a file administration system that is used by a large majority of Dutch travel agents.
Every year, Fadiro held a BAS day, which later became the Sambasso day.
In the middle of the corona period, Sambasso stopped and with that, the special day also came to an end.
But that’s about to change.
Theo Hoving (managing director of Fadiro) gets straight to the point: ‘We had the idea of creating a meeting place for BAS users for some time, but we didn’t want to repeat ourselves with a specific BAS day. That was a success at the time, but times have changed and we want to do something different.’ Fadiro is now doing so at the upcoming edition of TravDay, which will be held on Tuesday 8 October in the Rijtuigenloods in Amersfoort, with its own pavilion where not only BAS is central, but also some partners.
Developments New this edition of TravDay is that the event will be held until 8:30 p.m.
Hoving: ‘That’s a good move, because it allows travel professionals to visit later, for example after work or other commitments.’ When asked what visitors can expect, Hoving answers: ‘We are going to draw attention to the novelties of BAS, such as the ZRA portal and the ZRA Checkout Module. The first is an administrative service for ZRAs, the second a module that can be used to make settlements in BAS, among other things. ZRAs can easily choose which services they want to purchase in the portal and can change this at any time. In the portal, we keep ZRAs informed of developments regarding entrepreneurship as a ZRA and you will find various useful documents that you can use for your administration.’ The ZRA service is not new, Fadiro started this about a year ago, but wants to bring it to the attention of the ZRAs again at the upcoming TravDay.
Hoving: ‘ZRAs are very good at selecting and booking the most beautiful and complicated trips, but we also know that the administrative tasks are often not considered the most fun and are not always supported by the ZSO. That’s what we’ve stepped up for. That is going very well, more and more ZRAs know where to find us. The ZRA portal is still in its early stages, but is constantly being expanded.’ ‘The ZRA Checkout Module also gets the necessary attention on TravDay. The module is an automated checkout system in BAS, which collects the totals per month for the ZRA, on which the invoicing to ZSO is based. The ZRA also has an interest in this; In the future, he or she will be able to view this data in his or her own portal. We’ll tell you more about this on TravDay.’ 
Additional service The pavilion also features five of Fadiro’s partners.
One of them is Wait, an app or rather a digital reading portfolio with 1,500 magazines, 250 books and 750 audiobooks.
Among other things, Wait helps organizations positively influence a better hospitality experience; That’s ideal for traveling.
Consumers enjoy the most popular magazines, books and audiobooks via their own smartphone or tablet.
All a BAS licensee has to do is subscribe to Wait, and with that they offer their customers a nice extra service and a certain added value.
Since 2002
For more than 22 years, Dutch travel retail can no longer ignore BAS. Zonvaart was the first travel agency chain to turn to Fadiro for the system, says Hoving. ‘We assumed that BAS was suitable for travel agencies with three to four branches, while Zonvaart had twenty. That was a bit of a shock, but it went very well. Not much later, the ANWB reported that they were interested in BAS. I remember going to the head office in The Hague in a suit and tie; It could become a very big customer. And they were. At the time, the ANWB had about 70 offices. Extra nice is that the implementation of BAS went very smoothly. I heard later that this was one of the few projects that had really gone well that year. That’s very nice to hear. By the way, I was the only one who wore a suit and tie and never did that again.’ Where does that name come from? More than 90 percent of retail uses BAS, but how did that name ever come up? Hoving: ‘We started BAS in 2002. We wanted the word ‘basic’ in it, and the name of our competing system was Jack. So we also found a cool boy’s name interesting. In the alphabet, the B comes in front of the letter J and therefore it became Basic Automation System, i.e. BAS. It sounds tasty and it works well. Jack still exists, but has withdrawn from the Netherlands. They focus entirely on the German market, just as we do on the Dutch market.’
TravDay
On Tuesday 8 October, TravDay will be held in the Rijtuigenloods in Amersfoort, from 11.00 to 20.30 hours.
Check travday.nl for more information and sign up via this site.
Wait has recently been linked to BAS, allowing BAS users to offer this service to their customers.
Access to all those books and magazines works during the customer’s vacation.
