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

AltexSoft Travel

In 2016, Hotel Electronic Distribution Network Association (HEDNA) established a working group aimed to clarify the best practices for hotel payments. First, there are credit cards used both at the point-of-sale terminals and online, when paying via your booking engine. These common problems stall many hotels’ transformations.

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IATA Explained: The Role of International Air Transport Association in the Aviation Industry

AltexSoft Travel

In 2016, the McLaughlin-Sherouse List was published, which ranked all industries in the US according to RegData’s Industry Regulation Index showing the most regulated ones. This way, IATA regulations benefit all parties involved, i.e., airlines, travel agents, passengers, customers, ground handlers, and others.

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Airline Ticket Fraud and How Big Companies Avoid It

AltexSoft Travel

Last year, according to Amadeus research , almost 40 percent of all tickets were sold online. How online criminals commit fraud most often. What online companies can do to prevent fraud. By the end of next year, online booking is expected to account for more than half of all ticket bookings. Billion in 2011 to $32.39

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The peak of incentive travel: What you need to win JAPAN Best Incentive Travel Awards 2020

Travel Daily Media

Keen to learn about the JAPAN Best Incentive Travel Awards, especially under a global pandemic, I spoke to Camila Cortea of the Japan Convention Bureau MICE department about the purpose of the awards, what it takes to win and more… Camila Cortea. advertising and marketing promotional activities for a period of three years.

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MICE and Corporate buyers flock to ITB Asia 2017

Travel Daily Media

Already, ITB Asia 2017 is expected to top the success of ITB Asia 2016. Ahead of the milestone event, the exhibition space at ITB Asia 2017 had completely sold out in August after it garnered the highest number of exhibitor bookings, attributed to a tremendous surge in booth bookings from the global market.

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Airline Alliances Explained: Benefits, Major Players, and Other Types of Partnership

AltexSoft Travel

By doing so, a carrier can definitely expand its market reach, but such a situation would decrease the ability of other member airlines to stay competitive. Increased market coverage. They also may run common marketing programs and use the same IT system. Sometimes, you can see the alliance’s logo right on the plane.

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Airline Alliances Explained: Benefits, Major Players, and Other Types of Partnership

AltexSoft Travel

By doing so, a carrier can definitely expand its market reach, but such a situation would decrease the ability of other member airlines to stay competitive. Increased market coverage. They also may run common marketing programs and use the same IT system. Sometimes, you can see the alliance’s logo right on the plane.