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

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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. Memo Analyzer for Agencies dashboard.

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

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A tour operator is a travel company that devises the trip, books its components, markets it, and sells to travelers or travel agents. To streamline your relationships with suppliers and automate reservation processes, you can connect your software to travel providers via APIs. Components of tour packages.

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Experiential Travel Explained: Players, Distribution Landscape, and Opportunities

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Tour operators are travel companies that devise itineraries, create corresponding multi-component tour packages, sell them to travel agents or travelers, and make sure everything goes well from the start to the end of the trip, having full responsibility to the traveler. Tour operators: providing turn-key services.

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Travel Fraud Protection: Key Types of Travel Scam, Protective Measures, and Software to Consider

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Besides, due to the specific nature of the industry with high-value one-off payments, a big number of businesses across the world, and rapid customer consumption of services, the travel and hospitality sector is a huge target for fraud. What is travel fraud protection and why is it important? Fake online travel agency fraud.

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How Hospitality Brands are Using Chatbots

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This is a guest article by Larry Kim from MobileMonkey. In April of 2016, social media giant, Facebook launched a chatbot service that acts like a virtual assistant allowing businesses to provide automated customer service, deliver content, and come up with an interactive experience to their customers. Reduce workload for your staff.

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Revenue Integrity in Airlines: How to Solve Revenue Leakage Problems

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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. Improve business relationships with travel agents.

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OTA Platform: How to Choose a White-Label Solution, and When to Go Custom

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Plug-and-play platforms have many hidden limitations, preventing you from standing out in a saturated travel market. This article explores the capabilities of ready-to-use OTA software and highlights the key reasons to go custom. The channel share in US travel as of 2022. Or watch our video explainer. Source: Phocuswright.