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Hotelbeds API Integration: Hands-on Experience with a Leading Bed Bank

AltexSoft Travel

What is Hotelbeds: Key things to know Hotelbeds is the largest bed bank in the hospitality sector that provides an extensive listing of accommodations and other travel offerings worldwide. The preparatory phase mandates following best practices to streamline certification. Initiating the certification.

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Food Rescue and Donating to Those in Need: The Law Is On Your Side

Smart Meetings

Rescued groceries are taken to a community center and are put on display by trained volunteers for individuals to choose from. People can get healthy food without going to a food bank or be handed a bag of dry goods from a pantry.” “We started a program last year that was geared toward fighting inflation,” Bronstein explains.

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Why Are Public and Private Stakeholders Investing in Foreign Tourism Projects?

Solimar International

USAID has evaluated the current tourism market of Bangladesh, identifying the poor certification policy, the lack of promotion, and the lack of skilled workforce as areas of improvement. In a 5-year period between 2018 and 2023, the World Bank invested $40 million in Ghana to boost the country’s tourism industry.

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Airline Reporting Corporation and IATA Billing and Settlement Plan: How they Work

AltexSoft Travel

In this case, you as an agent sell tickets to travelers and get money to your merchant account and then pay to airlines via a BSP or ARC clearing bank. The agent makes remittance payment according to a calendar to the clearing bank (usually, once a week). And finally, the bank distributes money across airlines.

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PCMA Foundation Board Chair Predicts ‘Stronger, More Progressive Industry’

Convene by PCMA

It’s allowed PCMA to step up with immediate tools in the way of what we were able to deliver with DES, and that continued, and the numbers of people to whom we were able to provide the certificates, and how that impacted their immediate needs. In other words, the $25 million provides us with the ability to commit $1 million every year.

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Travel Agency Accreditation, Explained: IATA, IATAN, ARC, CLIA, and TRUE

AltexSoft Travel

To become an ARC-Accredited agency: Prepare the following documents: Travel agency license Confirmation of an established bank account with ARC A bond or a bank statement for $20,000. Travel agents selling a lot of cruises who are affiliated with a TAM agency and want access to CLIA’s certification program or an EMBARC ID.

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London continues to innovate in 2023 with host of new hotels, venues and transport options 

Travel Daily Media

Once home to the 2012 Summer Olympics, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London is launching its new cultural quarter East Bank, set to be home to world-renowned universities like UAL, plus the V&A, BBC and Sadler’s Wells.