Can I launch my white label travel portal if I do not have my own contracts with hotels or airlines yet?

Yes, you can usually launch a white label travel portal before you have your own contracts with hotels or airlines, because the portal can sell through supply that is already connected to it.

In that setup you are selling rates that come through an existing supplier connection rather than through an agreement you signed yourself. You still control your own brand, your own website address and your own markup, and the customer books with you and sees only your name. What you do not control is the contract behind the rate, so the terms, the cancellation rules and the commission you earn on each sale are set by that supplier rather than by you.

There are limits worth knowing before you plan around this. Not every supplier allows it, and some will only let you sell once you have registered with them directly and hold your own credentials, which can mean paperwork, a deposit arrangement or a trading licence depending on your country and the product. Flights tend to be stricter than hotels in many markets. The supply you can reach also depends on your plan, so what is available to you may be a shorter list than everything the platform is capable of connecting to.

A common path is to go live with shared supply, build up a sales record, then add your own direct contracts later and run both together. If that suits you, ask which suppliers you can sell through straight away, what the commission arrangement is on each of them, and what would be involved in connecting your own contracts once you have signed them.