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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. In this article, we will explain what metasearch engines are, how they work, and how hotels can connect to main platforms and get the most out of this partnership. What is a metasearch engine? How metasearch engines work. Via open APIs.

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Experiential Travel Explained: Players, Distribution Landscape, and Opportunities

AltexSoft Travel

TripAdmit ), or even a focused, multi-featured tour operator platform (e.g., In addition, to facilitate and automate the B2B interaction, bigger companies often develop a suite of APIs to enable integration and share product details with their partners. Bigger businesses can adopt itinerary building software (e.g., Here’s how it works.

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

AltexSoft Travel

There’s a wide selection of software developed for tour operators, ranging from specialized tools focused on one aspect to full-blown, multi-featured platforms covering the entire workflow. To streamline your relationships with suppliers and automate reservation processes, you can connect your software to travel providers via APIs.

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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

Alternative accommodation platforms are new players in the travel distribution field. It’s important for an AA platform to build solid connections with channel managers to drive more listings to the site. Platforms like Google, Kayak and TripAdvisor are many OTAs’ main sources of traffic. Wholesalers/bedbanks.

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Understanding Online Travel Agency Business: Partners, Building Blocks, How to Grow

AltexSoft Travel

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. But realistically, you want to automate at least one system to solve the most repetitive tasks. Booking desk.

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