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

AltexSoft Travel

For the record, the business developed into a global company operating its airline and dealing with multi-million revenue streams, went through a compulsory liquidation in 2019, and was relaunched as an online-only travel agency in 2020. What is a tour operator: definition, types, and challenges. Components of tour packages.

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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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Website Localization in Travel: Key Aspects and Best Practices

AltexSoft Travel

As a hotel, airline, OTA, or other company that works with travelers, you have to translate and customize all the elements of your digital product: Customer-facing content ( descriptions, landing pages, blog materials, FAQs and help desks , the “About us” section, terms and conditions, contacts, marketing and advertising materials etc.);

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Understanding Online Travel Agency Business: Partners, Building Blocks, How to Grow

AltexSoft Travel

They basically are distributors for hotels, airlines, and tour companies that profit by taking a fee for each sale. Airline and hotel distribution network. These industry players buy hotel rooms in bulk and sell them to OTAs, travel agents, or even airlines. Airlines via NDC connection. Here’s how it works.

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Marketing for Travel Agencies: Understanding and Surviving in the Online Travel Industry

AltexSoft Travel

In addition to major reasons like enormous debts and difficulties in operating airlines, its lack of online presence and reduced demand for tour packages caused the company to go downhill. So, for travel agencies, it’s quite difficult to stay afloat, unless they find some specific niche. Pretty impressive, isn’t it? Invisibility.

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