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

AltexSoft Travel

In contrast, there’s also an article about booking and ticketing for non-IATA agencies which describes other ways to sell flights. So, ARC or Airline Reporting Corporation is a company that regulates and handles transactions between airlines and US-based travel agencies. The flight booking algorithm explained.

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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

Immersive travel implies, well, immersing in the foreign culture which in most cases means mingling with the community at the place of destination, engaging in traditional activities, attending local events and so on. Meanwhile, adventure travel is more about physical activities. Tour operators: providing turn-key services.

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

AltexSoft Travel

But if you work in the hospitality business, you must have noticed that the way people book and pay for hotels has changed, especially since the start of the pandemic. Clunky websites have guests email or even call for information, availability updates are often manual, and check-ins and ancillary bookings also often happen only in person.

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What is PNR: Passenger Name Record Explained in Details

AltexSoft Travel

It happens every time travelers book a flight. Introduced to facilitate the exchange of booking information between airlines, PNRs have become an important component of the travel industry. They act as booking confirmation, a repository of valuable commercial information, and even a weapon against global terrorism.

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Airline Consolidators Overview: Their Role, Advantages, and Key Players

AltexSoft Travel

Flight consolidators are brokers that book airline seats in bulk at discount rates and then resell them to travel agencies. Consolidators pass on net fares to travel agencies, charging a premium on top of each seat. In any case, travel agents get a good margin to earn money. Booking engines out of the box.

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Hotel Technical Specifications: Distribution, Payment, Smart Device, and Back Office Standards by HTNG and OpenTravel

AltexSoft Travel

This is something that happened historically – IATA existed since the dawn of civil aviation , and hotels never had a centralized regulator to keep the industry united. This schema contains dozens of XML messages for booking, ancillary services, descriptive information, etc. Object and class libraries. OpenTravel 2.0