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Six Event Trends We’re Watching in 2024

Convene by PCMA

Examples include wearable tech capable of capturing real-time data that promises to revolutionize how organizers gather insights into attendee behavior, software solutions that automate various aspects of event planning and thus increase planner efficiency, and a service that offers web-based augmented reality activations.

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Email Marketing Software in the Travel Industry: Benefits, Challenges, and Success Stories

AltexSoft Travel

When you think about what a hotelier needs to pay for to market their business (website design, hosting, maintenance, SEO, social media marketing, paid ads, meta searches, etc.) Marketers are under pressure to streamline processes to not waste resources that they can use for media spending to beat out their competitors.

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Travel Fraud Protection: Key Types of Travel Scam, Protective Measures, and Software to Consider

AltexSoft Travel

The latest estimates by IATA show airlines alone lose a minimum of $1 billion annually because of payment fraud. Artificial intelligence and machine learning tools are widely adopted within the insurance sector to automate claim processing. The software then provides automated alerts on suspicious behavior and potential theft.

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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. Besides, a tour operator can own some of the package components, for example, run an airline or hotel.

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Experiential Travel Explained: Players, Distribution Landscape, and Opportunities

AltexSoft Travel

There are large, well-known companies (like TUI or Jet2holidays ) that even operate their own airlines or hotel chains, so that they not only source inventory from external travel suppliers, but use their own as well. Work on SEO, connect to customers on social media, promote your company on review and local information websites.

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Future trends include AI-based travel agencies and space tourism

Travel Daily Media

In addition, Kaci pointed out that new developments such as Web3 are proving their value to the sector, providing efficiencies and cost reductions in payments between parties, creating a common scenario for hotels, car rentals, airlines, etc. to converge and promote direct distribution models.

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AI in Short-Term Rentals: How Machine Learning Shapes STR

AltexSoft Travel

According to “Hospitality in 2025: Automated, Intelligent…and More Personal” research by Oracle and Skift , over half of the executives responded that they’ve already implemented automated messaging for customer service requests or are experimenting with it. Key opportunities of adopting AI in the STR sector Automation and efficiency.