AltexSoft Travel

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This is a guest article by Kelly Davidson from Merchant Savvy. If you’ve read an AltexSoft article on revenue integrity in airlines , you know that ticket manipulations are one of the main sources of revenue leakage. With travel agents playing smaller and smaller roles in bookings, airlines are becoming an easy target for fraudsters.

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 14, 2022

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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AltexSoft Travel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

What does self-service mean for travel? To be fair, the idea of self-service travel is nothing new. Back then, self-service used to simply mean “without a travel agent”, and in 2020, with up to 80 percent of travelers booking directly online – it’s a norm. Self-service touchpoints on the traveler journey.

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AltexSoft Travel

JUNE 25, 2022

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? What to do to prevent fraud?

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Maritz Global Events

JUNE 4, 2019

Despite a background as a travel agent and some hotel management courses in college,” he said, “I’d never thought about event management until I saw an ad promoting the travel, experience and interaction of the events industry, and I thought, ‘Wow, that’s a perfect fit!’”. Related Articles. Let us know.

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AltexSoft Travel

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

This article explains how host agencies work, what benefits they offer to travel professionals, and how to choose the right fit out of endless options. What is a host travel agency? As a travel agent you want to run your business, but you need resources that you can’t afford alone. consumer-faced website.

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AltexSoft Travel

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

And not only does it adapt the menus, but also advertising campaigns, website pages, and entire business plans to attract local foodies. If you operate a travel business, you most likely deal with multinational customers, and it’s crucial for you to localize your content and services and make them more understandable. And it works.

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Among that, 40 percent of the reservations are made via Booking.com, 32 percent — via other aggregators, and 21 percent — through a hotel’s website. We have a full-embracing article about how PMS and all its parts work. Everything changes over the years, including hotel booking.

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AltexSoft Travel

OCTOBER 27, 2023

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. A customizable website. Source: Phocuswright.

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AltexSoft Travel

OCTOBER 22, 2020

This is a guest article by Amadeus for Developers. In this article, we’ll explain how you can solve the question of ticket issuance and build your booking business without IATA accreditation. For a fee, consolidators will act as ticketing partners for non-IATA agents and issue tickets on their behalf. However, there are options.

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AltexSoft Travel

MAY 26, 2022

This article aims to explain how ticketing works, what a ticket is, which accreditations an agency should have in order to issue tickets, and how to sell flight seats without having major certifications. For a passenger, who buys the flight via a website, it may seem like a single flow since everything goes so smoothly and fast.

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AltexSoft Travel

JANUARY 13, 2022

For agencies providing vacation rentals and private apartments, this is the time to grow and join the digital travel distribution landscape. In this article, we’ll cover the alternative accommodations (AA) market, explain the back-office components of AA distribution, and give tips on growing your vacation rental presence.

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AltexSoft Travel

AUGUST 18, 2023

OTAs, hotel booking platforms , and other travel businesses need to have real-time access to extensive hotel inventories to offer diverse choices to their customers. This article delves deep into the core of Hotelbeds, its offerings, and a step-by-step guide, including our experience working with its APIs.

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AltexSoft Travel

MARCH 13, 2020

Flight consolidators are brokers that book airline seats in bulk at discount rates and then resell them to travel agencies. Our article explains why services of airfare wholesalers are still sought-after, what problems they solve, and how their air offerings differ from standard fares you can find online. Handling complex itineraries.

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AltexSoft Travel

JUNE 21, 2022

So, to help travel businesses make an informed choice, we’ll describe where and how travel inventory can be sourced and what its main management aspects are. Travel agency inventory basics. In this article, we’ll mainly talk about the online travel agency (OTA) businesses and their operational model.

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AltexSoft Travel

MAY 30, 2023

More than two-thirds of sales in travel and tourism are made via the Internet, and the share of online vs offline bookings will only grow in the coming years. So the ability to accept online payments is becoming vital for any travel business. We’ll also discuss key things and concepts to know when starting the integration project.

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AltexSoft Travel

JANUARY 19, 2021

Introduced to facilitate the exchange of booking information between airlines, PNRs have become an important component of the travel industry. This article describes the important technical and legal aspects of PNR creation and usage. This will make things far easier for all providers and travel agents. Data collection.

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AltexSoft Travel

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

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. Direct channels include: An eCommerce website/app. Indirect sales come from: Traditional travel agencies. API connections.

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 30, 2021

This article explains the complexities of old approaches and navigates through modern technologies addressing challenges of legacy agreements. Otherwise, the carrier for this role is typically selected by a travel agent. On a passenger’s or travel agent’s request, the GDS or PSS builds an itinerary.

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AltexSoft Travel

JUNE 9, 2023

This impressive Large Language Model is altering the landscape across many sectors, with the travel industry emerging as a prime example of its transformational power. In this article, we’ll uncover the mystery of this AI marvel by explaining its foundation in prompt engineering and showcasing its growing value in the travel sector.

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Booking.com offers solutions for: OTAs and destination websites, hotel channel managers, property owners, affiliates like travel bloggers and media outlets. If you’re an OTA or a destination website , scroll down to the Demand API. Demand API for booking websites. On top of that, Booking.com will pay you commissions.

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AltexSoft Travel

OCTOBER 9, 2019

GDS is one of the first abbreviations you learn in the travel business. Global Distribution Systems are responsible for providing booking websites with unified access to a massive inventory of flights, hotel rooms, car rental companies, cruises, and much more. What is a GDS? The price also varies, depending on duration and complexity.

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AltexSoft Travel

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In this article, we’ll discuss airline software suites, their major modules, and available modern solutions, created to change the current state of things for the better. No matter the generation, every PSS has customer-facing solutions to communicate with users — be it a website, mobile app, chatbot, or kiosk at the airport.

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

By the way, if you’re curious about a fuller historical overview of flight bookings check our article: You’ll depart on the journey in the 1950s and arrive into current realities, traveling through all prominent events along the way.). With NDC, you can share your ancillaries with travel agents so that they can market them.

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AltexSoft Travel

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

What is the Online Travel Agency? Online Travel Agency or OTA is a website (or app) specialized in selling travel services to customers. Travelers can go directly to the hotel’s or airline’s website but around 44 percent of people go to OTAs to compare prices and see the whole pool of options. How OTAs work.

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Solimar International

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In addition to her travels, she still found time to sit on the spouse’s club board, as well as get a Certificate in Nonprofit Management and Grant Writing. From the desert, she went to North Carolina where she worked for AAA as a Travel Agent, giving her a different look at tourism sales.

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AltexSoft Travel

AUGUST 26, 2020

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. It originated from the airline industry and slowly tried to capture adjacent travel segments. We’ll explore: 1. How hotel distribution works.

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Social Tables

DECEMBER 27, 2018

In other words, planners are not just meeting coordinators, they are now ad-hoc travel agents. Cultural interactions, local dining, experiential travel, and team-building activities are all in the mix. The fusion of these two world means that everything the planner does must serve a double purpose.

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AltexSoft Travel

DECEMBER 23, 2019

So, for travel agencies, it’s quite difficult to stay afloat, unless they find some specific niche. They would rather follow the word of mouth or go to their old, time-tested local travel agent or stick to larger players. So, new travel agencies have to work hard to break through the wall of mistrust. Invisibility.

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