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Hotel Booking APIs: Wholesalers, Channel managers, and GDS

AltexSoft Travel

Connectivity with key bed banks that purchase rooms in bulk. Connectivity with direct software vendors of hotels. About half of all hotel bookings happens indirectly, meaning that travelers book rooms at Booking.com, Expedia, Orbitz, and other online travel agencies (OTAs). So, where do these bookings come from?

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

AltexSoft Travel

A tour operator is a travel company that devises the trip, books its components, markets it, and sells to travelers or travel agents. In most cases, tour operators book travel services from external suppliers. You’ll be able to send booking requests and receive confirmations and other status updates through your own system interface.

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Virtual Credit Cards in Travel: How to Secure B2B Payments Between OTAs and Suppliers

AltexSoft Travel

A traveler books a room for two nights via OTA and provides credit card information to pay $100 for the stay. The OTA authorizes the payment with its acquiring bank. The OTA pushes the VCC representation along with booking confirmation to the hotel via API or email. How a payment process with VCCs may look like.

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The 10-Step Guide to Nonprofit Event Planning

Social Tables

Operations Manager: An event operations manager oversees vendor communication. Operations managers negotiate prices, book vendors, place supply orders, and communicate vendor details between the planning team, venue, and benefiting organization. Book a venue for the press conference and serve refreshments.

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How to Plan a High School Reunion in Ten Easy Steps

Social Tables

If no reunion plans are on the books, you’ll need to track down classmates and start the planning process. Before the booking process begins, create a preliminary budget for the reunion. Who will pay venue and vendor deposits? Will you track reunion payments and funds in a reunion-only bank account? Book an event venue.

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Event Management

ITA Group

Vendor and speaker coordination. Proprietary self-service online booking tool (integrated with registration) . Hotel booking and contracting. Vendor management. Vice President, Major Banking Organization. Air and transportation. Mobile build and management. Food and beverage. Event gifting. Destination selection.

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Hotel Online Payments: How and Why to Transform Your Payment Process

AltexSoft Travel

But if you work in the hospitality business, you must have noticed that the way people book and pay for hotels has changed, especially since the start of the pandemic. Clunky websites have guests email or even call for information, availability updates are often manual, and check-ins and ancillary bookings also often happen only in person.

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