AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

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. This includes ARC’s Verified Travel Consultant ( VTC ) number and IATA’s Travel Industry Designator Service ( TIDS ) code, which is now free of charge.

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AltexSoft Travel

DECEMBER 3, 2020

With travel agents playing smaller and smaller roles in bookings, airlines are becoming an easy target for fraudsters. Fake Payment Information. In most cases, criminals simply use someone else’s personal and credit card information to commit fraud. By selling stolen goods, credit cards, and personal information.

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 14, 2022

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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AltexSoft Travel

JUNE 25, 2022

Artificial intelligence and machine learning tools are widely adopted within the insurance sector to automate claim processing. The software then provides automated alerts on suspicious behavior and potential theft. Key fraud victims: travel (and not only) companies of different size. Fake online travel agency fraud.

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AltexSoft Travel

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

So here are the three main partnership solutions Expedia Group offers: Expedia Travel Agent Affiliate Program aka agent tools. Expedia TAAP: booking tools for travel retail agents. Through Expedia TAAP travel agents can book the following services: 600K+ accomodations. Expedia Group members.

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Travel Daily Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The newly consolidated company is now well-positioned, as the leader in its segment, to provide its 180,000 hotel partners globally with incremental, high-value bookings via the company’s portfolio of over 60,000 travel trade buyers, including retail travel agents, tour operators, airlines and points redemption schemes.

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AltexSoft Travel

MARCH 24, 2022

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. Streamlining and automating processes. VCCs are temporary credit cards issues for a specific amount that allow to not reveal actual credit card information.

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Travel Daily Media

JULY 31, 2019

Exhibitors and Buyers can also look forward to numerous informative seminars by industry experts; a spectacular Opening Ceremony; an exquisite Gala Dinner with the theme of Soulful Vietnam; and other exciting networking events. Corporate Travel Forum. These include the International Hosted Buyers and Hosted Media Programme.

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

In April of 2016, social media giant, Facebook launched a chatbot service that acts like a virtual assistant allowing businesses to provide automated customer service, deliver content, and come up with an interactive experience to their customers. A chatbot can help hoteliers convey information faster than a human customer service agent does.

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

With the help of the channel manager that we discuss below, it distributes the hotel information to various sales channels, such as GDSs , OTAs , independent travel agents, and its own website, synchronizes reservations, and processes transactions. Hotel search and booking process steps. Receiving an availability inquiry.

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 30, 2020

Often created by travel agents and customers (both accidentally and not), these holes account for about 3 percent of the airline’s revenue. Not always intentionally, but travel agents as well as passengers themselves can cause a bunch of revenue integrity problems for airlines. Sources of airline revenue leakage.

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Hotel Engine

AUGUST 3, 2022

Some automate their T&E policy and track expenses digitally. Inform Your Employees of Where and How to Book Travel Plans. The policy should also include how and where to book travel arrangements. Automate Your Policy for Ease of Use. Include guidelines for the type of transportation allowed.

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AltexSoft Travel

JANUARY 19, 2021

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. Initial PNR generation. Booking reference assignment.

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AltexSoft Travel

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This website within a website is available only for authorized users and is used by travel agents and corporate clients to access exclusive prices and propositions established per preliminary agreements. This automation eliminates mistakes with overbooking or seat allocation. Information sharing. API connections.

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AltexSoft Travel

JANUARY 13, 2022

While most booking operations are automated, agents also need tools to perform less trivial tasks: manage cancellations and changes to the bookings, mitigate conflicts between property owners and guests, and stay in contact with both groups to ensure they’re satisfied. A travel booking engine performs two roles.

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AltexSoft Travel

OCTOBER 27, 2023

It will help you find your niche and make an informed decision on the right technology solution to support your business ideas. The channel share in US travel as of 2022. The Online Travel Agent Global Marker Report projects an over 22 percent increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.2 Source: Phocuswright.

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AltexSoft Travel

MARCH 13, 2020

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. Travel agencies add their own markups but still keep the prices lower than market rates offered by airlines. International flights vs domestic flights. Airline expertise.

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AltexSoft Travel

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Information architecture: managing design and layout. There are vendors that provide multilingual static content on properties, tours, and other travel products. Its multilingual hotel guide contains information about more than 430,000 hotel descriptions in 25 languages, plus images and factsheets. fr, yoursite.ch/de Here’s why.

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 24, 2023

To better understand the protection mechanism, let’s look into one of the possible flows where an online travel agency (OTA) uses a virtual credit card (VCC) to pay the room price to a hotel. A traveler books a room for two nights via OTA and provides credit card information to pay $100 for the stay. Advanced fraud protection.

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 20, 2020

This schema contains dozens of XML messages for booking, ancillary services, descriptive information, etc. Single Guest Itinerary describes schemas for the messanges about a guest profile and reservation information. Standards help pass the same information in the same fields and avoid confusion. Payment processing automation.

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

A bed bank (also called a wholesaler ) is a B2B company that purchases rooms from accommodation providers in a bulk at a discounted, static price for specific dates and sells them to OTAs, travel agents, airlines, or tour operators. It provides static and dynamic information about hotels available in BookingAPI.

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AltexSoft Travel

DECEMBER 10, 2019

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).

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AltexSoft Travel

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

These industry players buy hotel rooms in bulk and sell them to OTAs, travel agents, or even airlines. These computer networks dominate the travel distribution and store inventories, schedules, and fares for all types of services: from hotels to ferries. Online Travel Agency building blocks and technology. Search rules.

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AltexSoft Travel

AUGUST 26, 2020

It originated from the airline industry and slowly tried to capture adjacent travel segments. Global distribution systems gather data from multiple sources, create their APIs, and distribute them across travel agents and OTAs. Automatic mapping that eliminates information duplicates (a good thing). What’s cool about GDSs?

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AltexSoft Travel

DECEMBER 23, 2019

So, for travel agencies, it’s quite difficult to stay afloat, unless they find some specific niche. They would rather follow the word of mouth or go to their old, time-tested local travel agent or stick to larger players. So, new travel agencies have to work hard to break through the wall of mistrust. Invisibility.

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