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How Enjoy Illinois Relaunched an Award-Winning Website that Increased Traffic by 74%

Crowdriff

increase in hotel accommodations and flight bookings. It was also awarded the US Travel Association’s 2017 Mercury Award for outstanding travel website. — CrowdRiff (@CrowdRiff) August 30, 2017. Since its launch the website has generated a 74% uptick in traffic , a 447% increase in newsletter subscribers and a 14.5%

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

AltexSoft Travel

Just a couple of examples: electronic tickets were first developed for fare ticketing, while one of the first online booking systems was built by airline distribution company SABRE. Cooperating with metasearch engines to provide seamless booking experience. Google doesn’t offer booking, facilitating direct bookings.

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Nina Schick: ‘The Business Events Industry Must Be Vigilant’ Concerning AI

Convene by PCMA

Mo Gawdat At the end of 2017, Schick told Harris, she started seeing the emergence of deep fakes “and I immediately sensed that this would be something that is really important because it was the first time we were seeing AI create new data.” Unfortunately, we can’t always count on tech watchdogs to point out synthetic content.

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Cvent vs Bizzabo: Which Event Management Software Is Best?

Eventtia

As an attendee, you can easily find and book meetings with other attendees. For example, in 2017, Pierre Fabre initiated a lasting collaboration with Eventtia to digitize its events and standardize the event processes within its Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions (MICE) department.

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How Travel Oregon Reduced Mobile Load Time by Half with a Key Web Redesign

Crowdriff

Travel Oregon’s website earlier in 2017. The team is also excited about its upcoming partnerships with Ski Oregon and Eastern Oregon, which will give the affiliated organizations the ability to leverage the new and improved TravelOregon.com for their own websites. Are you ready to book your trip? Or are you already here?”

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How to Choose a GDS: Amadeus vs Sabre vs Travelport

AltexSoft Travel

Global Distribution Systems are responsible for providing booking websites with unified access to a massive inventory of flights, hotel rooms, car rental companies, cruises, and much more. This is a beginner-friendly guide to starting your travel booking business or at least its online part. What is a GDS? Car rentals.

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Direct Hotel Booking APIs: How Katanox, Impala, and HyperGuest Reinvent the Industry

AltexSoft Travel

Since the 70s, when the first booking systems had started sprouting, the industry has been evolving and becoming increasingly complex to understand and operate in. Two-thirds of online hotel sales are made via OTAs, specifically two big ones – Expedia Group and Booking Holdings. Travel distribution is complicated. An integration gap.

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