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

AltexSoft Travel

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.

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Booking and Ticketing for Non-IATA Travel Agencies

AltexSoft Travel

For a fee, consolidators will act as ticketing partners for non-IATA agents and issue tickets on their behalf. For most non-IATA travel agents, consolidators are easiest and most effective way to handle ticket issuance. Automated ticketing – more commonly, PNRs are ticketed automatically. Ticketing with a consolidator.

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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. What does self-service mean for travel?

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How content accuracy and consistency impacts revenue: A Q&A with Fred Bean

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To share more about this important facet of hotel digital marketing, we talked to our partner Fred Bean, founder of HotelPORT, about how we’re working together to help hotel brands solve distribution challenges. From there, the solution grew into the automated system that pulls data from major channels into one visual dashboard.

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

AltexSoft Travel

Before diving in, watch how tours and attractions market works. A tour operator is a travel company that devises the trip, books its components, markets it, and sells to travelers or travel agents. What is a tour operator: definition, types, and challenges. Booking engine for tour operators.

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Alternative Accommodations Distribution: Back Office of a Vacation Rental Agency

AltexSoft Travel

And eight out of ten of those travelers expect to stay in rentals for at least half of future trips. Influenced by the need to control their COVID exposure and having to travel only locally, people have unknowingly shifted the accommodation market share. What is considered alternative accommodation? Property owners and managers.

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Website Localization in Travel: Key Aspects and Best Practices

AltexSoft Travel

We’ve touched on the topic of website localization earlier, and in this article, we want to dive deeper into the technicalities of an adaptation process and share our experience of adjusting travel platforms to foreign markets. Tip: For marketing materials, use only human translation. But first, let’s briefly recap the basics.

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