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Experiential Travel Explained: Players, Distribution Landscape, and Opportunities

AltexSoft Travel

Tour operators are travel companies that devise itineraries, create corresponding multi-component tour packages, sell them to travel agents or travelers, and make sure everything goes well from the start to the end of the trip, having full responsibility to the traveler. Tour operators: providing turn-key services.

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Hotel Online Payments: How and Why to Transform Your Payment Process

AltexSoft Travel

Clunky websites have guests email or even call for information, availability updates are often manual, and check-ins and ancillary bookings also often happen only in person. Booking the same hotel on Booking.com vs the hotel’s own website. Streamlining and automating processes. Payment process automation. Guest payments.

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Website Localization in Travel: Key Aspects and Best Practices

AltexSoft Travel

And not only does it adapt the menus, but also advertising campaigns, website pages, and entire business plans to attract local foodies. If you operate a travel business, you most likely deal with multinational customers, and it’s crucial for you to localize your content and services and make them more understandable. And it works.

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What is PNR: Passenger Name Record Explained in Details

AltexSoft Travel

The essential trip data is gathered when an individual passenger or organization books a flight via a travel retailer — carrier’s website, online travel agency (OTA), travel management company (TMC), tour operator, or other channels. Moreover, both are often regulated by the same documents. Data collection.

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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. Benefits of partnership with air consolidators for airlines.

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Hotel Technical Specifications: Distribution, Payment, Smart Device, and Back Office Standards by HTNG and OpenTravel

AltexSoft Travel

In 2012, IATA revolutionized flight distribution connectivity by introducing New Distribution Capability (NDC) – a standard for displaying rich airline content on online travel websites. It basically describes the communication between the self service frontend on the website or kiosk and the services scheduling system.

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Understanding Online Travel Agency Business: Partners, Building Blocks, How to Grow

AltexSoft Travel

What is the Online Travel Agency? Online Travel Agency or OTA is a website (or app) specialized in selling travel services to customers. Travelers can go directly to the hotel’s or airline’s website but around 44 percent of people go to OTAs to compare prices and see the whole pool of options. How OTAs work.

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