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Experiential Travel Explained: Players, Distribution Landscape, and Opportunities

AltexSoft Travel

TripAdmit ), or even a focused, multi-featured tour operator platform (e.g., Tour operators list their products in the marketplace platform, thus increasing their customer reach. Typically, they also can enjoy the support team’s patronage and access to useful tips, analytics, and other handy perks that depend on the platform.

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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 addition, the travel industry is complex and highly competitive, so to keep up with the market, you have to use the most efficient tools to support your back-end operations.

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

AltexSoft Travel

The simplicity of the launch attracts even non-travel players: Over the past two years , a number of financial companies, retailers, and loyal clubs have presented their branded booking platforms. Plug-and-play platforms have many hidden limitations, preventing you from standing out in a saturated travel market.

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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. Partnering with Booking.com, you connect your existing properties to this distribution market, while new clients can come to you through the platform. Hotel Booking Systems.

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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. What is a GDS? Negotiate competitive deals.

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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. Or you can watch the video by our travel competence leader Andrey. What’s cool about GDSs?

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