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

AltexSoft Travel

For the record, the business developed into a global company operating its airline and dealing with multi-million revenue streams, went through a compulsory liquidation in 2019, and was relaunched as an online-only travel agency in 2020. The Peek Pro online booking flow. Booking engine and payments processing.

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Experiential Travel Explained: Players, Distribution Landscape, and Opportunities

AltexSoft Travel

itinerary creation and scheduling (tour builders), online booking ( booking engines ), multi-channel distribution management (channel managers), customer relationships (CRM systems), content management (CMSs), reporting and analytics ( BI tools ), and so on. When we say travel agencies, in most cases we mean online travel agencies or OTAs.

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Metasearch in Hospitality: an Overview of Hotel Search Engines

AltexSoft Travel

We’ve already described the main distribution channels : GDSs , OTAs , and bed banks. For hotels and OTAs, the main benefit of partnering with metasearch engines is increased online presence and customer reach. That’s an easy and recommended way to go to automate the setup and further updating. Via open APIs. Google Analytics.

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Website Localization in Travel: Key Aspects and Best Practices

AltexSoft Travel

Besides, all the link building strategies and SEO efforts of the main domain are applied to all the subdirectories. Also, you risk not having good rankings in targeted countries without focused SEO activities. For automated translation, consider integrating with a specialized translation tool to leverage its functionality.

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Alternative Accommodations Distribution: Back Office of a Vacation Rental Agency

AltexSoft Travel

In online travel agencies increasing their alternative listings numbers. While most booking operations are automated, agents also need tools to perform less trivial tasks: manage cancellations and changes to the bookings, mitigate conflicts between property owners and guests, and stay in contact with both groups to ensure they’re satisfied.

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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. Having worked with numerous travel businesses , we can tell that we know a thing or two about building and growing a successful online travel agency. What is the Online Travel Agency? Bed banks or wholesalers. No OTA is fully automated.

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