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Confident planning strategies for the return of incentive travel 

The MICE Blog

The most vivid pre-COVID memories that I have of incentive trips are from experiencing destinations where I got to know their hidden gems, interact with locals and learn about their craft or their culture, and network with other participants. After more or less four weeks, at the end of March, nearly all incentive trips were cancelled.

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Travelport’s new partnerships puts event organisers and TA’s in control

Travel Daily Media

The new contract will see Inspiravia S.L. products rolled out to Travelport’s network of customers – through the e-commerce platform, Travelport Marketplace — and will work with the British firm to build new, sales-focused and digital transformation solutions for the industry. Travelport and Inspiravia S.L Inspiravia S.L.

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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. Destination management companies: contracting local experiences. Real-world examples.

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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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Travel Agency Inventory System: Main Sources and Management Aspects

AltexSoft Travel

For instance, if you sell flights, current seat availability will be stored in the airline’s reservation system , because this airline distributes flights across many resellers and… well, knows which seats are already booked and which are available. hotels or airlines) and reselling this access to distributors.

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Travel Booking Engines: Types, Functionality, and Integrations

AltexSoft Travel

Without this software component, you can neither sell nor buy airline tickets or hotel reservations through the Internet. The key systems on the suppliers’ side are: Global Distribution Systems ( GDSs ), bed banks , airline consolidator databases, hotel property management systems ( PMSs ), and.

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