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Demystifying Covid Testing: The Differences, Access and What It All Means for Travelers

Smart Meetings

Sometimes airlines and destinations will not accept antigen tests (but will accept an NAAT test), but often a viral test is the only specification. Check your airline’s and your destination’s government or tourism bureau travel restrictions website to ensure your negative result meets every qualification. Unvaccinated U.S.

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The Power of Purpose is Fueled by Collaboration

Smart Meetings

Read More: Power Of Purpose 2023 Highlights In the process of evolving the offerings, what was Destination Showcase became Showcase, a place modeled after the energy of South by Southwest for technology companies, agencies, hotels, airlines, any supplier that works to make events successful can get connected to meeting producers who need their help.

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Airline Reporting Corporation: ARC Accreditation Options and Steps to Get It

AltexSoft Travel

Whether your business is focused on selling airline tickets, package trips, or cruises, if you want to be acknowledged as a professional in the travel industry, you need to be certified. So, ARC or Airline Reporting Corporation is a company that regulates and handles transactions between airlines and US-based travel agencies.

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The Event Vax Debate Uncovers Legal, Health and Moral Questions

Smart Meetings

As Anh Nguyen, head of community engagement at the serendipitous networking platform twine pointed out in her guest post, “ Jury, Judge or…Event Planner ?” Do you think masks/no masks, vaccines/non-vaxed will or should be an addendum on contracts with venues? was an early question. — Jennifer Cox (@jicox) June 1, 2021.

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Sabre API Integration: Hands-On Experience With a Leading GDS

AltexSoft Travel

A leading global distribution system in North America, Sabre leverages the content from airlines, hotels, car rentals, and other travel suppliers across the world. Instead of connecting with thousands of vendors separately, an online booking platform can integrate with just one GDS — and tap into the almost exhaustless source of information.

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Confident planning strategies for the return of incentive travel 

The MICE Blog

However, I think the bravest industry is the network marketing industry, because they need this incentive platform to conduct sales, to develop relationships, and motivate clients and team members. As COVID has not completely gone away, what is your contingency plan if one of your team members, an employee or a speaker contracts the virus?

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OTA Rates and Building ?ommission Engine: Best Practices and Lessons Learnt

AltexSoft Travel

They help hotels, airlines, car rental services, and other suppliers sell inventory to end customers — and charge fees for this mediation. Commission contracted model. The first possible scenario is called a commission contracted or agency model. Net contracted model. How an agency model and merchant model differ.