AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

At the time of global digitalization, 75 percent of all hotel bookings are made online. That clearly shows the vital importance of connection to various online booking channels for a hotel to thrive and attract more customers. A Central Reservation System, or CRS, is a technology that lies at the heart of the hotel’s functions.

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AltexSoft Travel

MARCH 13, 2020

Our article explains why services of airfare wholesalers are still sought-after, what problems they solve, and how their air offerings differ from standard fares you can find online. 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.

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AltexSoft Travel

OCTOBER 27, 2023

White-label solutions make building an online travel agency or OTA extremely easy and fast. The simplicity of the launch attracts even non-travel players: Over the past two years , a number of financial companies, retailers, and loyal clubs have presented their branded booking platforms. Or watch our video explainer.

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Leonardo

MAY 13, 2021

The demand to travel is building, and potential travelers need to trust that the information they’re finding online is up to date with the latest information at their destination. Keeping travel channels up to date has long been a pain point for hoteliers—now more than ever with limited resources and narrower margins.

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

A leading global distribution system in North America, Sabre leverages the content from airlines, hotels, car rentals, and other travel suppliers across the world. 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.

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 14, 2022

Now that we’re done with the basics, let’s talk about how businesses can actually help adventure-seeking travelers plan and organize the vacation of their dreams. Experiential travel ecosystem: business models, distribution, technologies, and representatives. Technologies. Technologies. Technologies.

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AltexSoft Travel

APRIL 16, 2021

ARC uses modern technologies to gather travel data and offers a number of solutions to support travel agencies’ business intelligence , analytics, and reporting processes. Basically, with CTD accreditation, corporations act as travel agents and book directly with GDSs and airlines. ARC Agency BI interface.

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AltexSoft Travel

JANUARY 13, 2022

In travelers embracing the trend for staycations and workations. In online travel agencies increasing their alternative listings numbers. To connect with its partners on both ends, it needs strong integration and distribution technologies, as well as the search and booking functionality that matches customer demand.

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AltexSoft Travel

JUNE 25, 2022

And everyone knows that fraudsters won’t be far behind from where money is, especially when most transactions happen online. This brings convenience as customers can easily search for holiday destinations, book accommodations, and make payments online. Key fraud victims: travel (and not only) companies of different size.

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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.

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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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AltexSoft Travel

DECEMBER 23, 2019

In addition to major reasons like enormous debts and difficulties in operating airlines, its lack of online presence and reduced demand for tour packages caused the company to go downhill. This calls for quite intricate approaches to marketing, distribution, and travel products themselves. Understanding the travel agency market.

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 20, 2020

In 2012, IATA revolutionized flight distribution connectivity by introducing New Distribution Capability (NDC) – a standard for displaying rich airline content on online travel websites. Long answer is as follow: To be able to use innovative technologies and create personalized content.

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Travel Daily Media

JULY 31, 2019

The Tourism Start-Up Pavilion is especially relevant today as both travellers and tourism operators alike rely even more on technology and the Internet to plan their trips and conduct their daily business operations. ITE HCMC Awards 2019.

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AltexSoft Travel

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

So, instead of choosing one or the other, we recommend a hybrid approach, i.e., automating the process with machine translation and then involving professional translators to revise the content. For automated translation, consider integrating with a specialized translation tool to leverage its functionality.

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AltexSoft Travel

AUGUST 26, 2020

Sourcing inventories of the largest online travel agencies. About half of all hotel bookings happens indirectly, meaning that travelers book rooms at Booking.com, Expedia, Orbitz, and other online travel agencies (OTAs). It originated from the airline industry and slowly tried to capture adjacent travel segments.

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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. These chatbots simulate a more human-like experience of talking to a travel agent.

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The online booking business is as good as the inventory it has, so finding the best rooms for the best price is the most important task. Travel agents can book inventory via a booking website. If you focus on high-end travelers, consider Bonotel Exclusive Travel. What is a bed bank?

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AltexSoft Travel

DECEMBER 10, 2019

As late as last summer British Airways canceled more than 100 of their flights and delayed another 200 because of IT outages that involved two components of their passenger service software — one that was responsible for online check-in and the other that managed flight departure. The second generation: patchwork of old and new technologies.

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