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Hotel Booking APIs: Wholesalers, Channel managers, and GDS

AltexSoft Travel

About half of all hotel bookings happens indirectly, meaning that travelers book rooms at Booking.com, Expedia, Orbitz, and other online travel agencies (OTAs). So, where do these bookings come from? These are standard REST/JSON APIs catering to a large variety of developers to test and use in production. Hotel booking.

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Mondee and TISSINI partner to empower Hispanic women as successful travel entrepreneurs

Travel Daily News

As part of Mondee’s Affiliate Network program, TISSINI’s micro-network of 55,000 U.S. Hispanic women, who have to date been focused on selling products to their local communities, are now expanding into services with the opportunity to sell travel through Mondee’s platform. Tesone , Founder and CEO of TISSINI.

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Marketing Conferences: The #1 Marketing Events Guide in 2024

Bizzaboo

November 2023 Marketing Conferences Name Start Date/Location Description Product Marketing Summit Sydney 2023 11/1/23 Sydney, Australia Nov. 1 to 2—Get in a room with your PMM peers for two days of non-stop networking, knowledge-sharing, keynotes, roundtables, and more at Product Marketing Summit Sydney.

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

AltexSoft Travel

All agents belonging to a particular host use the same accreditation numbers or IDs to book travel. In fact, ARC and IATAN duplicate each other, so ARC-affiliated companies don’t need IATAN credentials. A travel agency may book cruises, no matter the type of professional accreditation it has. Host travel agency business model.

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Experiential Travel Explained: Players, Distribution Landscape, and Opportunities

AltexSoft Travel

It can be anything from booking a homestay instead of a hotel to volunteering at the nearby field to attending a weekend flea market or a local yoga class – you get the idea. Local suppliers are the ones that create the initial travel products. Meanwhile, adventure travel is more about physical activities. Real-world examples.

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

AltexSoft Travel

A tour operator is a travel company that devises the trip, books its components, markets it, and sells to travelers or travel agents. In most cases, tour operators book travel services from external suppliers. You’ll be able to send booking requests and receive confirmations and other status updates through your own system interface.

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