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

AltexSoft Travel

So, ARC or Airline Reporting Corporation is a company that regulates and handles transactions between airlines and US-based travel agencies. Basically, with CTD accreditation, corporations act as travel agents and book directly with GDSs and airlines. Memo Manager is a tool for automating memo exchange and processing.

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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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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. Digital Signage supports the deployment of hotel digital signage technology – display monitors in public areas that communicate messages to guests and employees.

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Website Localization in Travel: Key Aspects and Best Practices

AltexSoft Travel

It involves modifying content considering local regulations and cultural differences – and at the same time preserving the company’s tone of voice and brand integrity. No machine can effectively and accurately communicate the brand message that you’ve developed. Tip: For marketing materials, use only human translation.

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Understanding Online Travel Agency Business: Partners, Building Blocks, How to Grow

AltexSoft Travel

Travelers can go directly to the hotel’s or airline’s website but around 44 percent of people go to OTAs to compare prices and see the whole pool of options. OTAs compile their rich inventories by connecting to different partners via APIs – pieces of code allowing for the communication between different software systems.

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