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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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Booking and Ticketing for Non-IATA Travel Agencies

AltexSoft Travel

For a fee, consolidators will act as ticketing partners for non-IATA agents and issue tickets on their behalf. For most non-IATA travel agents, consolidators are easiest and most effective way to handle ticket issuance. Automated ticketing – more commonly, PNRs are ticketed automatically. Ticketing with a consolidator.

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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. Similar to Booking Holdings, Trip.com runs an affiliate program Airbnb.