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A Planner’s Guide to Event Vendors 

Social Tables

Planners work with venues, specialized staff, and vendors to ensure everything runs smoothly. A lot of tiny pieces must fall into place for an event to succeed, and the wrong event vendors could lead to lots of trouble later in the planning process. What are event vendors? a musical festival).

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Top 3 DMC Trends as Tracked by an AI Proposal Platform

Smart Meetings

New PURE Local Services tool builds RFPs for activities, decor and transportation What if sourcing activities, decor and transportation were as easy as checking boxes to produce an RFP for a venue? It is a functional, curated package generator to manage data, information and vendors. “I

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The Meeting Planner’s Guide to Reviewing Safety and Security (Why It Matters Now)

Gavel International

PRO TIP: Don’t forget to consider other vendors or partners who may be involved in your meeting or event! For example, food and beverage, audio/visual, and group transportation. This includes assessing external and internal factors, such as the location’s security, transportation access, and crowd or group management.

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

AltexSoft Travel

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. 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.

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B2B Travel Platform For Corporate Travel Management

AltexSoft Travel

Corporate travel managers must consider factors like travel policies, preferred vendors, traveler safety, budget constraints, and approval workflows. In the travel management landscape, both B2B and B2C travel booking platforms, developed by individual software vendors (ISVs), serve distinctive roles and cater to different users.

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Self-Service Technologies in Travel: End-to-End Solutions for Independent Travelers

AltexSoft Travel

Self-service technology has been sporadically implemented at different stages of travel experience, and different locations as well. There are capsule hotels in Japan that are almost entirely staff-free and automated passport control has been implemented in selected airports in Europe and Asia. Automated security screening.

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What is PNR: Passenger Name Record Explained in Details

AltexSoft Travel

It may appear under different names — a record locator, booking reference, reservation code, or just PNR. Receipt for booking confirmation where 01FH53 is the record locator or PNR number. Each carrier manages its portion of the trip, saves the updated document in its database, identifying it with a separate record locator.