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Host Travel Agencies: Why You Need Them and How to Choose the Best Option

AltexSoft Travel

“A host travel agency is an accelerator,” — explains the idea Ernesto Sigg Rodríguez, Chief Commercial Officer at Fitbooktravel , that provides technology consulting services for online travel businesses. “As As a travel agent you want to run your business, but you need resources that you can’t afford alone.

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Airline Consolidators Overview: Their Role, Advantages, and Key Players

AltexSoft Travel

Consolidators pass on net fares to travel agencies, charging a premium on top of each seat. In any case, travel agents get a good margin to earn money. Travel agencies add their own markups but still keep the prices lower than market rates offered by airlines. Booking engines out of the box. Handling complex itineraries.

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PMS API Data for Third-Party Apps: How to Become an Integration Partner of Leading PMSs

AltexSoft Travel

That’s why most hotel management systems today are open to partnerships with independent software vendors to easily expand their capabilities and satisfy clients. Their marketplace of integrations include marketing, transportation, door locks, accounting, point of sale, communication, and more vendors operating in a ton of countries.

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Experiential Travel Explained: Players, Distribution Landscape, and Opportunities

AltexSoft Travel

Tour operators are travel companies that devise itineraries, create corresponding multi-component tour packages, sell them to travel agents or travelers, and make sure everything goes well from the start to the end of the trip, having full responsibility to the traveler. Tour operators: providing turn-key services.

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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. Source: Phocuswright. percent from 2023 to 2027. A customizable website.

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Website Localization in Travel: Key Aspects and Best Practices

AltexSoft Travel

And not only does it adapt the menus, but also advertising campaigns, website pages, and entire business plans to attract local foodies. There are vendors that provide multilingual static content on properties, tours, and other travel products. And it works. Hotel content. Top performing MT engines.

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Hotel Booking APIs: Wholesalers, Channel managers, and GDS

AltexSoft Travel

If you want to sell/advertise hotel rooms, you inevitably stumble over these three technical pitfalls: How do you find hotel room APIs and what kind of providers are out there? The APIs by key global distribution systems, the main players on the travel distribution market. Connectivity with direct software vendors of hotels.

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