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Is the RFP Dead? Long Live Next Evolution of Booking

Smart Meetings

Meeting producers are looking for dwindling dates, working with shorter planning windows and increased requirements for everything from safety precautions to hybrid technology provisions. Hotel sales teams are barraged with automated forms, lean staffs and limited information to determine what the customer really needs.

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Arival launches guide to help experience companies grow online bookings

Travel Daily Media

The post Arival launches guide to help experience companies grow online bookings appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Arival, a global leader in the tour and activities industry, launched a new guide aimed at helping tour operators choose a booking system.

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Event Technology: The Ultimate Guide for 2024

Bizzaboo

Welcome to the 2024 event technology guide! Not sure you need event technology? of attendees say they expect in-person conferences to use modern technology (e.g. of attendees say they expect in-person conferences to use modern technology (e.g. What is event technology? Think again!

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

AltexSoft Travel

So, let’s talk about what to look for and how technology can help you with both your tasks at hand and strategic purposes. A tour operator is a travel company that devises the trip, books its components, markets it, and sells to travelers or travel agents. Tour operator technology solutions. Booking engine for tour operators.

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Generative AI and sustainability are driving investment in the tourism technology segment

Travel Daily Media

The post Generative AI and sustainability are driving investment in the tourism technology segment appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. This technology is being leveraged to enhance the customer experience by facilitating trip planning, automating refunds and back-office processes, and supporting content creation.

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How Hospitality Hiring Trends Can Improve Your Hotel Experience

Smart Meetings

Technology Creates New Staff Roles. Thanks to the increase in digital booking platforms and hotel apps, many business and leisure guests prefer to check in online rather than with a receptionist. Planners can expect a more automated lobby in the future, hopefully reducing delays. Flexible Schedules. will be remote.

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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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