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

AltexSoft Travel

A tour operator is a travel company that devises the trip, books its components, markets it, and sells to travelers or travel agents. To streamline your relationships with suppliers and automate reservation processes, you can connect your software to travel providers via APIs. Components of tour packages.

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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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Travel Fraud Protection: Key Types of Travel Scam, Protective Measures, and Software to Consider

AltexSoft Travel

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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How Hospitality Brands are Using Chatbots

AltexSoft Travel

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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OTA Platform: How to Choose a White-Label Solution, and When to Go Custom

AltexSoft Travel

As Phocuswright’s US Online Travel Agency Market Report 2022-2026 shows, OTAs receive only 22 percent of total gross bookings, lagging well behind direct supplier channels (41 percent) and offline agencies (37 percent). The channel share in US travel as of 2022. proposed to smaller OTAs, suppliers, and other companies.

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Hotel Booking APIs: Wholesalers, Channel managers, and GDS

AltexSoft Travel

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. Ctrip, the largest Asian distributor and Skyscanner owner, has affiliate proposals as well.

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