DCI

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Destinations want the travel trade – from tour operators to travel advisors – to keep them top of mind when booking for clients, but standing out is a constant challenge. When it comes to connecting with the travel trade, knowing who to connect with is paramount to overcoming that very challenge. Eric Bowman. Matt Turner.

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Travel Daily Media

MARCH 20, 2018

The post Bye bye group bookings? Marriott cuts strategic meetings and corporate travel commissions in North America appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Both he and the Travel Agent Central letter also cited Meetings Excellence! ,

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

A leading global distribution system in North America, Sabre leverages the content from airlines, hotels, car rentals, and other travel suppliers across the world. Short for Semi-Automated Business Research Environment, Sabre was developed back in the 1960s by IBM to help American Airlines handle growing volumes of passengers.

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AltexSoft Travel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

To be fair, the idea of self-service travel is nothing new. Back then, self-service used to simply mean “without a travel agent”, and in 2020, with up to 80 percent of travelers booking directly online – it’s a norm. Self-service touchpoints on the traveler journey. Travel research and booking.

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AltexSoft Travel

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Expedia is outrun only by Booking Holdings. While bundle packaging isn’t Booking’s strong suit, Expedia’s got it covered offering holistic vacation experiences. Among other things, Expedia supports post-booking enquiries of their partners’ clients and handles complex refund and relocation situations. 500+ airlines.

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Travel Daily Media

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Attendees this year included senior executives and decision-makers from tour operators, airlines, and loyalty and reward points schemes. These channels provide hotel partners with returning guests that book further in advance, cancel less, spend more in-destination and stay longer.

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Hotel Engine

OCTOBER 16, 2022

However, your business travelers might not even realize they’re not following the company travel policy when they book independently. Ensure you have clear documentation that communicates your travel policy : what it is, and why it exists to help them stay safe, as well as how it helps to streamline the internal processes.

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Open Destinations

JUNE 19, 2019

Any reputable reservation system should enable the tour operator, travel agent or Destination Management Company using it to set up end-to-end automation through the booking process. By serving up results more quickly, booking conversion is boosted. More booking = more revenues = growth. AUTOMATION.

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 14, 2022

Immersive travel implies, well, immersing in the foreign culture which in most cases means mingling with the community at the place of destination, engaging in traditional activities, attending local events and so on. Meanwhile, adventure travel is more about physical activities. Tour operators: providing turn-key services.

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AltexSoft Travel

JUNE 25, 2022

This brings convenience as customers can easily search for holiday destinations, book accommodations, and make payments online. percent between 2019 and 2021 with travel and leisure being one of the industries that suffer from scamming the most. Such fraud is often used for last-minute booking purposes. Chargebacks fraud.

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Open Destinations

JANUARY 31, 2020

Service providers like Airbnb, Skyscanner, Expedia and Tripadvisor have transformed the travel industry. They, amongst others, have been trailblazers in the shift from traditional booking methods to technology-lead equivalents designed for today’s connected world. . Virtual Reality Booking. Artificial Intelligence.

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Open Destinations

OCTOBER 22, 2019

For example, a tour operator selling cycling holidays using Travel Studio may have a customisable field for inside leg measurement. This means that repeat any customers making repeat bookings will be supplied with rental equipment in their size automatically. Request a Travel Builder Demo. Traveller Mobile App.

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 30, 2020

Even before the pandemic, the industry was going through a crisis, so airlines fought hard to track down and close every loophole. Often created by travel agents and customers (both accidentally and not), these holes account for about 3 percent of the airline’s revenue. Airline revenue leakage. Unticketed booking.

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Travel Daily Media

JULY 14, 2014

The post Qatar Airways launches MICE solution appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. QMICE is aimed at making booking process easier for MICE organisers. The same discounts apply to site inspection trips to the event destination and organisers can earn incentives in the form of Qmiles through attendees’ travel.

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Open Destinations

DECEMBER 16, 2019

A benefit for B2B customers, the agent portal within Travel Studio allows our customers to open up Travel Studio access to any travel agent. In this portal agents can amend their details, view bookings they have already made with you and make new bookings.

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Travel Daily Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Google Maps has made travel easier than ever before. You can scout out a neighbourhood before booking a hotel, get directions on the go and even see what nearby restaurants the locals recommend thanks to auto-translated reviews. Lastly, a new study revealed the “future of meetings” Google Maps’ speaks the lingo.

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AltexSoft Travel

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Large or small, every flight booking business must have two key processes in place: booking and ticketing. To consumers, booking a flight and receiving an e-ticket may seem like a single, seamless step, but for the business providing the service they’re actually two distinct and equally important steps.

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AltexSoft Travel

MAY 21, 2020

Things are quite confusing here and nascent travel agents can easily get overwhelmed with understanding what’s IATA, how IATAN is different, why ARC number is the same as IATAN number… And a whole lot of other questions. Sounds complicated, but in plain English, BSP is a payment mediator between airlines and travel agents.

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AltexSoft Travel

MAY 26, 2022

Airline ticketing is not as simple as it may seem to passengers. What is an airline ticket? An airline ticket is a document granted by a carrier or travel agency to a passenger as a confirmation that a person has bought a seat on a flight. Airline ticketing process. The booking flow. Airline web pages.

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AltexSoft Travel

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

And before you ask if this comparison is even fair, consider how expectations for railway shopping were influenced by the way we purchase airline tickets. Airlines rely on their IT systems, investing in innovations to compete and survive. Airline technology, for example, spawned from one first booking system — Sabre.

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AltexSoft Travel

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Its main goal is to regulate distribution-related activities in airlines and commercial aviation such as fare calculations, revenue allocation, and baggage rules. But how are IATA and travel agencies connected? Why do travel businesses that issue airline tickets have to be IATA-accredited? Airline ticketing.

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AltexSoft Travel

MARCH 13, 2020

Flight consolidators are brokers that book airline seats in bulk at discount rates and then resell them to travel agencies. Airline consolidator business model: how it works. Most of the large consolidators appeared in the 1970-1980s when airlines had more seats than they could ever sell via travel retailers.

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AltexSoft Travel

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

“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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AltexSoft Travel

MAY 8, 2020

A booking engine is the brains behind distributing travel products online. Without this software component, you can neither sell nor buy airline tickets or hotel reservations through the Internet. Trip-related companies employ different types of booking engines to run core processes instead of human personnel.

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AltexSoft Travel

MARCH 28, 2023

There doesn’t exist an airline that would cover all the world’s regions and destinations. No wonder that, for now, many of the world-known airlines belong to global alliances. What is an airline alliance? There are three key benefits airlines get when joining a global alliance. Increased market coverage.

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AltexSoft Travel

MARCH 28, 2023

There doesn’t exist an airline that would cover all the world’s regions and destinations. No wonder that, for now, many of the world-known airlines belong to global alliances. What is an airline alliance? There are three key benefits airlines get when joining a global alliance. Increased market coverage.

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Travel Daily Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The post Avian: How a startup is making life better for travel agents all around the world appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. MH: Looking forward we can see how complex the booking experience is going to become. TD: Are you the only guys doing this?

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AltexSoft Travel

JANUARY 19, 2021

It happens every time travelers book a flight. Introduced to facilitate the exchange of booking information between airlines, PNRs have become an important component of the travel industry. They act as booking confirmation, a repository of valuable commercial information, and even a weapon against global terrorism.

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AltexSoft Travel

JUNE 21, 2022

Travel agencies serve as intermediaries between travel products suppliers who want to expand their customer reach and travelers who want to see what their options are and book a number of travel services from one convenient interface. hotels or airlines) and reselling this access to distributors.

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 7, 2023

We’ll talk about IATA numbers and what they mean to travel agents and also explore the main codes that standardize the aviation industry. In addition, airlines’ own points of sale or sales offices also have an IATA number as an identifier of the location that issues flight tickets. IATAN accreditation. How to get an IATA number?

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AltexSoft Travel

AUGUST 18, 2023

In the ever-evolving travel industry landscape, the seamless integration of global accommodation providers is pivotal. OTAs, hotel booking platforms , and other travel businesses need to have real-time access to extensive hotel inventories to offer diverse choices to their customers. APItude hotel APIs Hotel Booking API.

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AltexSoft Travel

MAY 30, 2023

More than two-thirds of sales in travel and tourism are made via the Internet, and the share of online vs offline bookings will only grow in the coming years. So the ability to accept online payments is becoming vital for any travel business. Which payment gateway suits your travel business best.

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 30, 2021

Say, most air travelers to or from the US have to make at least one transfer en route to their final destination. To meet the popular customer requirement “to fly from anywhere to anywhere” and reduce inconveniences associated with multi-leg journeys, airlines have no other alternative but to cooperate with each other.

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AltexSoft Travel

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In this article, we’ll discuss airline software suites, their major modules, and available modern solutions, created to change the current state of things for the better. Its mission is to keep operations running smoothly, and failures in its work can cost airlines tens of millions of dollars in lost revenue.

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Today, airlines still use third parties for their flight distribution. Travelers still stick to comprehensive booking platforms like OTAs and price aggregators. Until the 2000s, airlines managed to maintain direct relations with travel agencies via Computer Reservation Systems (CRSs).

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 20, 2020

In 2012, IATA revolutionized flight distribution connectivity by introducing New Distribution Capability (NDC) – a standard for displaying rich airline content on online travel websites. This schema contains dozens of XML messages for booking, ancillary services, descriptive information, etc. Object and class libraries.

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 24, 2023

To better understand the protection mechanism, let’s look into one of the possible flows where an online travel agency (OTA) uses a virtual credit card (VCC) to pay the room price to a hotel. A traveler books a room for two nights via OTA and provides credit card information to pay $100 for the stay. Control over spending.

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