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IATA Explained: The Role of International Air Transport Association in the Aviation Industry

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IATA or the International Air Transport Association is a global trade association of airlines (both freight and passenger carriers) that regulates the aviation industry by developing standards, procedures, and practices. As of today, its members are 290 airlines in 120 countries comprising around 82 percent of total air traffic.

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Travel Startups and Tourism Trends to Invest In

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Travelin.ai: a platform enhancing bleisure travel. Trends covered : bleisure + green travel + safety concerns. Customers: business travelers, travel administrators, finance departments, HR departments. SafetyWing: travel and medical insurance for digital nomads and remote teams. Funded by 2 investors.

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Corporate travel management companies: how to choose the best provider for business trips

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At lower levels of expenses, it was a vain hope to negotiate bargain prices, perks, and commissions from airlines. Modern technologies make travel administration cheaper and simpler. More than that, many airlines offer discounts at much lower minimum spending requirements than a decade ago. post-trip reporting.

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Travel Subscription as a Business Model

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Such an approach can be beneficial for almost any travel company, including airlines, hotels, vacation rentals , travel agencies , tour operators , and so on. Before we go deeper into business model types and examples, let’s look at the travel subscriptions classification. So changes didn’t come fast.

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Amadeus API Integration: Practice Guide on Getting the GDS Content

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other travel APIs. COVID and Travel Safety APIs let you fetch detailed safety data for 40,000 cities and COVID-19 travel restrictions for 200 countries. But most importantly, you need to sign an agreement with an airline consolidator. What an airline consolidator has to do with a flight booking app.