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Booking and Ticketing for Non-IATA Travel Agencies

AltexSoft Travel

This is a guest article by Amadeus for Developers. Large or small, every flight booking business must have two key processes in place: booking and ticketing. A booking happens when you create a reservation on an airline Computer Reservation System (CRS) and get a booking reference number.

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Tour Operator Software: Itinerary Creator, Booking Engine, and Other Handy Technologies

AltexSoft Travel

A tour operator is a travel company that devises the trip, books its components, markets it, and sells to travelers or travel agents. In most cases, tour operators book travel services from external suppliers. Before diving in, watch how tours and attractions market works. Components of tour packages.

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Travelport launches Smartpoint Cloud, delivering an easier, more intuitive retail experience

Travel Daily News

LANGLEY UK – Travelport , a global technology company that powers travel bookings for hundreds of thousands of travel suppliers worldwide, announced the launch of Smartpoint Cloud on Travelport+. Smartpoint Cloud also enhances exchange capabilities to automate the calculation of accurate exchange costs and reduce errors.

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Railway Reservation System: How to Drive Online Train Bookings

AltexSoft Travel

In this article, we want to tackle just that and explain how a modern railway reservation and ticketing system can be advantageous to providers, travelers, and the whole train travel industry. Airline technology, for example, spawned from one first booking system — Sabre. Train booking engine.

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Hotel Booking APIs: Wholesalers, Channel managers, and GDS

AltexSoft Travel

Let’s try to get a handle on some of these stumble blocks in this article. If you run a hotel, look for the best APIs, and somehow stumbled upon this article, check out the final section. So, where do these bookings come from? It originated from the airline industry and slowly tried to capture adjacent travel segments.

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Revenue Integrity in Airlines: How to Solve Revenue Leakage Problems

AltexSoft Travel

Often created by travel agents and customers (both accidentally and not), these holes account for about 3 percent of the airline’s revenue. In this article, we explain when revenue leakage happens in airlines and how revenue managers can mend these holes. Let’s see at what stages of the flight booking process leakages appear.

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

AltexSoft Travel

We already have a detailed guide on IATA accreditation that is a good explainer of all the main concepts and parties in the travel agency accreditation process. In contrast, there’s also an article about booking and ticketing for non-IATA agencies which describes other ways to sell flights.

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