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Travelport launches Smartpoint Cloud, delivering an easier, more intuitive retail experience

Travel Daily News

As the only modern retailing platform built for agencies, Travelport+ will now deliver a more intuitive and efficient way for travel agents to sell and service travel, all while increasing sales of higher-value services for suppliers.

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Why Magnuson Hotels Switched to Leonardo’s Industry Leading Media Distribution Platform

Leonardo

P owerful direct integrations to major online travel agents . T he ability to feed and automate their direct booking channel on the Magnuson Hotels website. . We have been consistently impressed with how well Leonardo is able to match what our growing organization needs.

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

AltexSoft Travel

Basically, with CTD accreditation, corporations act as travel agents and book directly with GDSs and airlines. They can also outsource the ticketing activities to a third party, i.e., a travel management company. Memo Manager is a tool for automating memo exchange and processing. Memo Analyzer for Agencies dashboard.

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

AltexSoft Travel

But, organizing people’s entertainment is not an easy gig; you have to connect a ton of dots to make everything go smoothly and have your customers happy. A tour operator is a travel company that devises the trip, books its components, markets it, and sells to travelers or travel agents.

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

Leonardo

From there, the solution grew into the automated system that pulls data from major channels into one visual dashboard. The fact is, online travel agents are often doing a better job at clearly listing a hotel’s, or a room’s, amenities than the hotel is itself. Make sure you even know what details you need to share.

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Airline Ticket Fraud and How Big Companies Avoid It

AltexSoft Travel

With travel agents playing smaller and smaller roles in bookings, airlines are becoming an easy target for fraudsters. Some companies even have trouble monitoring their own employees, due to the size of their organization. But everything has a price. And they take it seriously. What Causes Security Loopholes.