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Experiential Travel Explained: Players, Distribution Landscape, and Opportunities

AltexSoft Travel

If you run or plan to launch a travel business and want to capitalize on the experiential tourism trend, here are your options of how you can fit in. Experiential travel distribution. Local suppliers are the ones that create the initial travel products. Connectivity in the travel industry. Here’s how it works.

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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. Basically, combining travel services in a bundle and developing a complete tour is the most important part of a tour operator’s job and that’s what distinguishes it from travel agents.

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

AltexSoft Travel

IATA and Travel Agencies. Today, IATA decides who and how should distribute air travel products. It supervises travel businesses by suggesting standards. For instance, IATA codes are used everywhere where traveling and aviation intersect. Read through the Travel Agent Handbook. Let’s figure these out.

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

AltexSoft Travel

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. Now it’s the turn of Booking.com.

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How to Choose a GDS: Amadeus vs Sabre vs Travelport

AltexSoft Travel

A Global Distribution System , or GDS , is a computer network operating as a middleman between travel agents and numerous travel service providers. That is why all of the three major Global Distribution Systems that we’ll later discuss asks for a certified travel agent. The certification is obligatory.

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Hotel Booking APIs: Wholesalers, Channel managers, and GDS

AltexSoft Travel

It originated from the airline industry and slowly tried to capture adjacent travel segments. Global distribution systems gather data from multiple sources, create their APIs, and distribute them across travel agents and OTAs. However, if you’re an OTA, your product must pass their vetting procedure and gain certification.

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