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Expedia Partner Solutions for Travel Agencies: Expedia TAAP, Templates, and EPS Rapid API

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If you’re a mid-size OTA that wants to beef up its inventory, an OTA startup with a great idea that begs for implementation, or maybe an offline travel agency on the hunt for a way to increase agents’ efficiency, the question is the same – where to source the travel data from. But Expedia, as an OTA, doesn’t play alone.

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OTA Platform: How to Choose a White-Label Solution, and When to Go Custom

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White-label solutions make building an online travel agency or OTA extremely easy and fast. This article explores the capabilities of ready-to-use OTA software and highlights the key reasons to go custom. If you need to learn the essentials of the OTA business, read our comprehensive article on how to grow an online travel agency.

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Alternative Accommodations Distribution: Back Office of a Vacation Rental Agency

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For OTAs that previously only worked with hotels, this is an opportunity to extend their inventory with alternative lodging suppliers. They don’t have the history and advantage of decades-old connections built between hotels and OTAs. It’s one of the ways an OTA connects with its suppliers. Metasearch engines.

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Airline Marketing and Advertising Use Cases from American Airlines, Ryanair, Air France, and Others

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Airline companies were also the first to practice eCommerce by founding and operating online travel agencies (OTA). Distributors are all the third-party companies, that either resell travel products to the customers (OTAs), or to other distributors (wholesalers). First of all, commissions are paid as a percent of a fare/service price.

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

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OTAs, hotel booking platforms , and other travel businesses need to have real-time access to extensive hotel inventories to offer diverse choices to their customers. The API provides a comprehensive list of hotels detailing room types, board variations, and rate lists. hotels : Primarily used for room availability inquiries.

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Booking.com Partnership and Affiliate Programs: Extranet, Pulse App, BookingSuite, Demand API, and Connectivity APIs

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Booking.com offers solutions for: OTAs and destination websites, hotel channel managers, property owners, affiliates like travel bloggers and media outlets. If you’re an OTA or a destination website , scroll down to the Demand API. On top of that, Booking.com will pay you commissions. Retrieving live rates and availability.

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Website Localization in Travel: Key Aspects and Best Practices

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As a hotel, airline, OTA, or other company that works with travelers, you have to translate and customize all the elements of your digital product: Customer-facing content ( descriptions, landing pages, blog materials, FAQs and help desks , the “About us” section, terms and conditions, contacts, marketing and advertising materials etc.);

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