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Attention Meeting Planners: Instant Booking Is Finally Here

Skift Meetings

With many meeting planners and event organizers doubling up their bookings to compensate for postponed events from 2021 (and even 2020), it’s getting harder and harder to find hotel rooms and meeting spaces for groups both large and small. The New Marketplace Philosophy for Meeting Bookings.

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TIS – Tourism Innovation Summit selects the top 40 startups impacting tourism worldwide

Travel Daily Media

One of them was iUrban, which received the Andalucía LAB Award for Ciceron, a tourism platform with artificial intelligence that uses ChatGPT to personalise the tourist experience and works as if it were a 24/7 tourist office in more than 94 languages.

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Optimizing Your Corporate Events Through Organization Practices that Minimize Stress and Maximize Results

Traveler's Q

For larger events or those held on special dates, like holidays, it is best to book even earlier – up to a year or more in advance. When booking ahead of time, be sure to read the contract thoroughly and understand when payment deadlines and cancellation policies take effect.

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

AltexSoft Travel

A tour operator is a travel company that devises the trip, books its components, markets it, and sells to travelers or travel agents. 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.

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

AltexSoft Travel

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. Sixty years later, the world’s first computerized system for flight booking still handles a lion’s share of airline and hotel reservations.

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Bookmark These Top 30 Websites for Event Planners

Bizzaboo

Techsytalk Techsytalk is a digital platform with more than 550 members that bridges the gap between event technology and the event planner. Meetings Today Meetings Today offers monthly print and digital publications, industry news, blog posts, webinars, videos, podcasts, books, and educational resources for meeting and event planners.

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OTA Rates and Building ?ommission Engine: Best Practices and Lessons Learnt

AltexSoft Travel

Commission contracted model. The first possible scenario is called a commission contracted or agency model. The payment for a reservation made via OTA goes directly to the supplier — either at the time of booking or on check-in. Net contracted model. Another approach is a net contracted or merchant model.