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Is the Rise of Regional Tourism Here to Stay?

Dana Communications

The past two years have taken the travel sector on a wild ride—from brutal decimation in 2020 to the renaissance of the road trip in 2021 to the growing, but guarded, optimism of today. Most experts predict that the industry will not fully recover (read: achieve 2019 levels) until 2024. appeared first on Dana Communications.

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

Social Tables

What does it mean to be a part of the events industry in 2019? Here, we cover the top 19 trends which promise to shake up event planning and hospitality in 2019 and beyond. In other words, planners are not just meeting coordinators, they are now ad-hoc travel agents. Well for starters, don’t blink. You read that right.).

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92% to use agents to book luxury trips in 2023

Travel Daily Media

“Many affluent individuals are looking to resume travelling in style with almost half planning to spend more on holidays than pre-Covid trips” it quotes. At the same time, wealthy APAC travellers are also looking to use the services of a travel agent with 92% of those surveyed saying they will be using them over the next year.

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Airline Reporting Corporation: ARC Accreditation Options and Steps to Get It

AltexSoft Travel

Besides the ticket transaction settlement services, it also accredits travel agencies and provides access to the aggregated air transaction data. Airline sales summary 2019, source: ARC. In short, IATA’s role and range of responsibilities in the travel sector are much broader as it formulates the industry policy and standards.

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Tour Operator Software: Itinerary Creator, Booking Engine, and Other Handy Technologies

AltexSoft Travel

For the record, the business developed into a global company operating its airline and dealing with multi-million revenue streams, went through a compulsory liquidation in 2019, and was relaunched as an online-only travel agency in 2020. What is a tour operator: definition, types, and challenges. Components of tour packages.

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Hotel Technical Specifications: Distribution, Payment, Smart Device, and Back Office Standards by HTNG and OpenTravel

AltexSoft Travel

Digital Signage supports the deployment of hotel digital signage technology – display monitors in public areas that communicate messages to guests and employees. Food and Beverage Ordering defines the interface for communication between a device (kiosk, guest’s phone, TV) and a POS system. Smart device connectivity management.

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

AltexSoft Travel

As Phocuswright’s US Online Travel Agency Market Report 2022-2026 shows, OTAs receive only 22 percent of total gross bookings, lagging well behind direct supplier channels (41 percent) and offline agencies (37 percent). The channel share in US travel as of 2022. Expedia saw a 40 percent increase from 2019. Source: Phocuswright.