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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

With travel agents playing smaller and smaller roles in bookings, airlines are becoming an easy target for fraudsters. Just a few years ago, in June 2016, the European branch of Interpol cracked down on more than 140 criminals in a 48-hour sting operation. Integrate a Booking Platform. These efforts are paying off.

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Travel tech this week: Ready to do business

Travel Daily Media

The newly consolidated company is now well-positioned, as the leader in its segment, to provide its 180,000 hotel partners globally with incremental, high-value bookings via the company’s portfolio of over 60,000 travel trade buyers, including retail travel agents, tour operators, airlines and points redemption schemes.

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How Hospitality Brands are Using Chatbots

AltexSoft Travel

Chatbots have become one of the most significant trends of today’s eCommerce industry — an AI (artificial intelligence) platform that allows businesses to simulate the behavior of humans within a conversational environment. These chatbots simulate a more human-like experience of talking to a travel agent.

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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. Another leading CM and PMS provider, the Cloudbeds platform has a separate Cloudbeds Payments product, currently available in the US, Canada, Europe, and the UK. But they don’t have to.

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What is PNR: Passenger Name Record Explained in Details

AltexSoft Travel

A carrier’s operator or authorized travel agent logs into the CRS/GDS to build a PNR file with five mandatory elements (to be discussed later in the section about PNR data). If, for example, a travel agent uses Amadeus to book a flight operated by a Sabre-hosted carrier, there will be at least two PNRs with their own record locators.

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19 Event Trends That Will Shake Up Meetings & Group Business in 2019

Social Tables

In other words, planners are not just meeting coordinators, they are now ad-hoc travel agents. Cultural interactions, local dining, experiential travel, and team-building activities are all in the mix. As of 2016, millennials are officially the largest workforce in the U.S. not cost-, time-, or conflict-related).

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