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

AltexSoft Travel

Short for Semi-Automated Business Research Environment, Sabre was developed back in the 1960s by IBM to help American Airlines handle growing volumes of passengers. Sabre and other GDSs act not only as wholesalers of travel services. Automating flight booking flow. Automating changes and cancellations. Flight search.

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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. To streamline your relationships with suppliers and automate reservation processes, you can connect your software to travel providers via APIs. Components of tour packages.

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Experiential Travel Explained: Players, Distribution Landscape, and Opportunities

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

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Most of the large consolidators appeared in the 1970-1980s when airlines had more seats than they could ever sell via travel retailers. 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. 24/7 customer support.

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Airline Reservation Systems and Passenger Service Systems: Navitaire, Amadeus Altea, SabreSonic and more

AltexSoft Travel

A modern PSS is a complex structure, combining dozens of tools and applications which automate a wide range of passenger-related activities. The first CRS appeared in the 1960s was SABRE (Semi-Automated Business Research Environment) , which later evolved into one of three major global distribution systems (GDSs). Retailing platform.