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Hotel Online Payments: How and Why to Transform Your Payment Process

AltexSoft Travel

Streamlining and automating processes. While some are finding the automated payment processing too confusing to switch, others are hoping to avoid fraud in this way. First, there are credit cards used both at the point-of-sale terminals and online, when paying via your booking engine. Guest payments. B2B payments.

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Why Magnuson Hotels Switched to Leonardo’s Industry Leading Media Distribution Platform

Leonardo

P owerful direct integrations to major online travel agents . T he ability to feed and automate their direct booking channel on the Magnuson Hotels website. . Leonardo will be expanding their media distribution reach to our extensive network of third-party travel channels.

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Airline Reporting Corporation: ARC Accreditation Options and Steps to Get It

AltexSoft Travel

Probably, the most important benefit of ARC accreditation is the ability to issue airline tickets. ARC Verified Travel Consultant (VTC): for non-ticketing travel professionals. So, it’s well worth considering, if you can partner with a consolidator or a host travel agency that would take charge of ticketing.

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Airline Ticket Fraud and How Big Companies Avoid It

AltexSoft Travel

Last year, according to Amadeus research , almost 40 percent of all tickets were sold online. How online criminals commit fraud most often. What online companies can do to prevent fraud. By the end of next year, online booking is expected to account for more than half of all ticket bookings. Fake Travel Agencies.

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Sabre API Integration: Hands-On Experience With a Leading GDS

AltexSoft Travel

A leading global distribution system in North America, Sabre leverages the content from airlines, hotels, car rentals, and other travel suppliers across the world. Instead of connecting with thousands of vendors separately, an online booking platform can integrate with just one GDS — and tap into the almost exhaustless source of information.

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Experiential Travel Explained: Players, Distribution Landscape, and Opportunities

AltexSoft Travel

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. Online and mobile presence.

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How Hospitality Brands are Using Chatbots

AltexSoft Travel

In April of 2016, social media giant, Facebook launched a chatbot service that acts like a virtual assistant allowing businesses to provide automated customer service, deliver content, and come up with an interactive experience to their customers. These chatbots simulate a more human-like experience of talking to a travel agent.