AltexSoft Travel

JANUARY 17, 2023

Property distribution – they build their own booking websites to drive direct reservations and create listings on various booking platforms (such as Airbnb, Vrbo, or Booking.com) and social media. This strategy helps Houst cut R&D and marketing costs associated with driving direct bookings. Partnerships.

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AltexSoft Travel

MARCH 24, 2022

But if you work in the hospitality business, you must have noticed that the way people book and pay for hotels has changed, especially since the start of the pandemic. Clunky websites have guests email or even call for information, availability updates are often manual, and check-ins and ancillary bookings also often happen only in person.

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AltexSoft Travel

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The payment for a reservation made via OTA goes directly to the supplier — either at the time of booking or on check-in. After commissions are agreed upon, all that’s left to do for OTAs is track booking volumes and send invoices for their services. But in recent years, Booking.com increased the number of net-contracted bookings.

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Endless Events

JUNE 17, 2019

Turn your mics on, it’s time to explore meeting automation for events! We live in the golden age of automation. Mainly due to what this means in terms of jobs and employment, but we’re here to talk about the positive side of automation. Meeting automation can do wonders for any business in terms of organization.

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Stova

MARCH 17, 2023

Event Automation Makes Events Easier 90% of event planning is research. Event automation" is the implementation of connected solutions to reduce manual event tasks and make managing meetings and events easier. Here's how each element plays a larger role in event automation.

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AltexSoft Travel

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

If you’d like to save time and the headache of making separate agreements with each inventory supplier, here’s a way out – partner with a travel inventory aggregator – be it a global distribution system (GDS), a bed bank, or a big OTA. Expedia is outrun only by Booking Holdings. Your average number of bookings.

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AltexSoft Travel

JUNE 25, 2022

This brings convenience as customers can easily search for holiday destinations, book accommodations, and make payments online. Travel frauds can range from bonus/loyalty abuse to bookings made with stolen credit cards leading to chargebacks to fake online travel websites, etc. Such fraud is often used for last-minute booking purposes.

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AltexSoft Travel

APRIL 19, 2022

From sharing a corner in your living room with an air mattress to running a whole hotel-like operation with multiple properties, alternative accommodation hosts today can make bank. Booking and occupancy. One hotel may operate hundreds of rooms, each booked individually, while a vacation rental is booked as a whole.

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AltexSoft Travel

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The simplicity of the launch attracts even non-travel players: Over the past two years , a number of financial companies, retailers, and loyal clubs have presented their branded booking platforms. Plug-and-play platforms have many hidden limitations, preventing you from standing out in a saturated travel market.

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AltexSoft Travel

JANUARY 13, 2022

With alternative lodging representing a whopping 40 percent of all new bookings on Booking.com alone, is it still alternative? Watch how Airbnb popularized vacation rental booking in our video. In 2021, hotel bookings have almost rebounded from the stressful year, but consumer interest in non-hotel options will prevail.

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

At the time of global digitalization, 75 percent of all hotel bookings are made online. That clearly shows the vital importance of connection to various online booking channels for a hotel to thrive and attract more customers. Everything changes over the years, including hotel booking.

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 24, 2023

A traveler books a room for two nights via OTA and provides credit card information to pay $100 for the stay. The OTA authorizes the payment with its acquiring bank. The OTA pushes the VCC representation along with booking confirmation to the hotel via API or email. How a payment process with VCCs may look like.

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Besides, a strong web presence is essential, including both a well-organized own website and other distribution channels to simplify the planning and booking stages of the customer journey. A property management system or PMS usually serves as a backbone of a hospitality business, automating multiple reservation and administrative workflows.

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The online booking business is as good as the inventory it has, so finding the best rooms for the best price is the most important task. One of the ways to get a diverse inventory portfolio is to partner with a bed bank. What is a bed bank? Bed banks aggregate inventory from suppliers and resell it to other businesses.

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AltexSoft Travel

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

We’ve touched on the topic of website localization earlier, and in this article, we want to dive deeper into the technicalities of an adaptation process and share our experience of adjusting travel platforms to foreign markets. But first, let’s briefly recap the basics. What is localization and how to approach it? Source: VentureBeat.com.

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AltexSoft Travel

MAY 23, 2023

This entails utilizing different platforms like online travel agencies (OTAs) , global distribution systems (GDSs) , bed banks , and a hotel website for direct booking. A balanced distribution mix reduces dependency on a single channel and widens market exposure, increasing occupancy chances and boosting RevPAR.

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AltexSoft Travel

AUGUST 2, 2021

Its usage is typically related to the hospitality industry, though it can be implemented in other sectors, such as retail stores, banks, hospitals, casinos, etc. Automated room item request feature by Vouch. Maintenance request in the Monscierge platform. Mobile check-in and stay management. Lost and found.

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AltexSoft Travel

JANUARY 19, 2021

It happens every time travelers book a flight. Introduced to facilitate the exchange of booking information between airlines, PNRs have become an important component of the travel industry. Introduced to facilitate the exchange of booking information between airlines, PNRs have become an important component of the travel industry.

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AltexSoft Travel

DECEMBER 10, 2019

A modern PSS is a complex structure, combining dozens of tools and applications which automate a wide range of passenger-related activities. The first CRS appeared in the 1960s was SABRE (Semi-Automated Business Research Environment) , which later evolved into one of three major global distribution systems (GDSs).

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Bizzaboo

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Will the car support the features and functions they want, and their platforms of choice? Early booking comes with many advantages so speak to your sales contact to rebook, or take a look below to see what’s on offer. Chicago offers five days of unbiased and cutting-edge education on the.NET Microsoft Platform.

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AltexSoft Travel

AUGUST 13, 2020

All of this data comes from bookings made on the website, purchases through POS systems, CRMs, or any other place where personal preferences are shown. One of the spheres of interest for revenue management is demand forecasting , which relies on hotel bookings and market data. Revenue management analytical dashboard.

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AltexSoft Travel

AUGUST 26, 2020

Connectivity with key bed banks that purchase rooms in bulk. About half of all hotel bookings happens indirectly, meaning that travelers book rooms at Booking.com, Expedia, Orbitz, and other online travel agencies (OTAs). So, where do these bookings come from? Book hotel rooms. Hotel booking requests are free!

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AltexSoft Travel

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Bed banks or wholesalers. Here’s more info on the largest bed banks and how OTAs can work with them. We will cover three mechanisms running in the background of an OTA: its booking and commission engines, and the back office. How a booking engine works. Booking and ticketing flow. Global Distribution Systems (GDS).

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