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Travel Agency Accreditation, Explained: IATA, IATAN, ARC, CLIA, and TRUE

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Here, we will cover all the accreditation types, their application process, and benefits to help you make an educated choice. What is Travel Agency Accreditation? There are many more companies selling travel services than the ones providing them. So, what are the main benefits of having an IATA accreditation?

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Experiential Travel Explained: Players, Distribution Landscape, and Opportunities

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

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This article explains how host agencies work, what benefits they offer to travel professionals, and how to choose the right fit out of endless options. What is a host travel agency? As a travel agent you want to run your business, but you need resources that you can’t afford alone. ARC Agency Code Number.

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How to Get IATA Accreditation for Travel Business: Options and Steps to Take

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What IATA can give travel businesses. That said, let’s outline the main benefits that IATA gives to its accredited agents. Being IATA-certified, travel agencies can issue airline tickets on behalf of airlines, which adds trustworthiness from the customers’ point of view. Read through the Travel Agent Handbook.

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Booking.com Partnership and Affiliate Programs: Extranet, Pulse App, BookingSuite, Demand API, and Connectivity APIs

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Booking.com offers solutions for: OTAs and destination websites, hotel channel managers, property owners, affiliates like travel bloggers and media outlets. Now, we’ll also tell how influencers and websites can join the affiliate program and benefit from promoting Booking.com. Booking.com Affiliate Partner Program.

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Booking and Ticketing for Non-IATA Travel Agencies

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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. Another benefit of ticketing with a consolidator is the possibility of accessing deeply discounted fares.

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

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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.