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Hotel Booking APIs: Wholesalers, Channel managers, and GDS

AltexSoft Travel

Connectivity with key bed banks that purchase rooms in bulk. Sourcing inventories of the largest online travel agencies. About half of all hotel bookings happens indirectly, meaning that travelers book rooms at Booking.com, Expedia, Orbitz, and other online travel agencies (OTAs). Book hotel rooms.

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Beware the Public Wi-Fi Network: 6 Ways to Practice Cybersecurity While Traveling

Smart Meetings

However, when on vacation, people tend to forget about their online security.”. When waiting around in an airport, the temptation is strong to book last-minute activities, additional hotel stays or different flights, but the security around public networks isn’t strong enough to protect any sensitive information you enter.

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Travel Booking Engines: Types, Functionality, and Integrations

AltexSoft Travel

A booking engine is the brains behind distributing travel products online. Trip-related companies employ different types of booking engines to run core processes instead of human personnel. Internet booking engine: its key functionality and main integrations. How a travel booking engine works. Key features.

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Direct Hotel Booking APIs: How Katanox, Impala, and HyperGuest Reinvent the Industry

AltexSoft Travel

Since the 70s, when the first booking systems had started sprouting, the industry has been evolving and becoming increasingly complex to understand and operate in. Hoteliers have been stuck paying overgrown commissions to online travel agencies (OTAs) and other middlemen. There are a few types of middlemen. A pyramid of commissions.

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Online Travel Agency Analytics: Data-Driven Approach to the Best-Cost Strategy

AltexSoft Travel

This also means that online travel platforms have an opportunity to affect the final decision if their proposition is very attractive. Working with numerous travel booking projects and driving them to success, we’ve determined the main metrics an OTA should use to stay competitive and make data-driven decisions. Visitor-to-Book.

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Tour Operator Software: Itinerary Creator, Booking Engine, and Other Handy Technologies

AltexSoft Travel

For the record, the business developed into a global company operating its airline and dealing with multi-million revenue streams, went through a compulsory liquidation in 2019, and was relaunched as an online-only travel agency in 2020. In most cases, tour operators book travel services from external suppliers.

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Now is the time to rethink and restart the events industry: Interview with Angeles Moreno, Managing Partner at the Creative Dots

The MICE Blog

‘In 2000, I decided to found a company, something that will change the industry, and I established the first marketplace to organise events online. It was a big contract, which took six months of negotiations to come to an agreement. Although it was exciting at that time, almost no company had a webpage. What are we missing?’.