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

Leonardo

They need the best media distribution solution on the market, and their previous vendors simply weren’t cutting it. . When looking for a new media distribution vendor , Magnuson needed a provider with : . P owerful direct integrations to major online travel agents .

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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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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. Typically, vendors provide a few integration options. Going with the booking engine of the same vendor. Payment process automation. Guest payments.

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Airline Ticket Fraud and How Big Companies Avoid It

AltexSoft Travel

With travel agents playing smaller and smaller roles in bookings, airlines are becoming an easy target for fraudsters. Although companies usually trust their employees, as Virgin Australia found out, some employees will knowingly exploit system loopholes to their benefit. Fake Travel Agencies. But everything has a price.

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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. Tour operators: providing turn-key services.

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OTA Platform: How to Choose a White-Label Solution, and When to Go Custom

AltexSoft Travel

As Phocuswright’s US Online Travel Agency Market Report 2022-2026 shows, OTAs receive only 22 percent of total gross bookings, lagging well behind direct supplier channels (41 percent) and offline agencies (37 percent). The channel share in US travel as of 2022. Source: Phocuswright. percent from 2023 to 2027. A customizable website.

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Virtual Credit Cards in Travel: How to Secure B2B Payments Between OTAs and Suppliers

AltexSoft Travel

About 71 percent of this volume will come from B2B financial interactions, including those done in travel. The article explores the benefits virtual cards bring to the table and what a travel company should consider when implementing this method. Process automation and no more manual reconciliation. Control over spending.

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