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Metasearch in Hospitality: an Overview of Hotel Search Engines

AltexSoft Travel

Listing your property in metasearch websites and investing in a marketing campaign can help increase visibility and attract more direct bookings. We’ve already described the main distribution channels : GDSs , OTAs , and bed banks. So, what are the main players in this market and how can you establish the desired cooperation?

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

AltexSoft Travel

Before diving in, watch how tours and attractions market works. A tour operator is a travel company that devises the trip, books its components, markets it, and sells to travelers or travel agents. Marketing support. What is a tour operator: definition, types, and challenges.

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Experiential Travel Explained: Players, Distribution Landscape, and Opportunities

AltexSoft Travel

It can be anything from booking a homestay instead of a hotel to volunteering at the nearby field to attending a weekend flea market or a local yoga class – you get the idea. They sometimes act as hotel wholesalers ( bed banks ), contracting allotments from local accommodation providers. Inventory sourcing and distribution.

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Website Localization in Travel: Key Aspects and Best Practices

AltexSoft Travel

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. Besides, all the link building strategies and SEO efforts of the main domain are applied to all the subdirectories.

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Alternative Accommodations Distribution: Back Office of a Vacation Rental Agency

AltexSoft Travel

Influenced by the need to control their COVID exposure and having to travel only locally, people have unknowingly shifted the accommodation market share. 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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Understanding Online Travel Agency Business: Partners, Building Blocks, How to Grow

AltexSoft Travel

Online travel agencies are some of the youngest players in the travel market. Bed banks or wholesalers. Here’s more info on the largest bed banks and how OTAs can work with them. Or even automate the engine to always deliver you the best deals. No OTA is fully automated. Global Distribution Systems (GDS).

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