AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Short for Semi-Automated Business Research Environment, Sabre was developed back in the 1960s by IBM to help American Airlines handle growing volumes of passengers. Automating flight booking flow. If after the fifth check your ticket is still not ready, a travel agent has to get involved and complete the step manually.

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Leonardo

MAY 13, 2021

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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AltexSoft Travel

DECEMBER 3, 2020

With travel agents playing smaller and smaller roles in bookings, airlines are becoming an easy target for fraudsters. For instance, a fraud will book a near-term departure at any ticket value with an online travel agent service. These efforts are paying off. But everything has a price. And they take it seriously.

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Travel Daily Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The newly consolidated company is now well-positioned, as the leader in its segment, to provide its 180,000 hotel partners globally with incremental, high-value bookings via the company’s portfolio of over 60,000 travel trade buyers, including retail travel agents, tour operators, airlines and points redemption schemes.

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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

JUNE 25, 2022

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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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 14, 2022

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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AltexSoft Travel

MARCH 24, 2022

Streamlining and automating processes. While some are finding the automated payment processing too confusing to switch, others are hoping to avoid fraud in this way. Modern travel technology businesses have open APIs for you to connect to allow you to build your perfect technology environment from a variety of businesses.

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Open Destinations

JANUARY 31, 2020

As a result, the last decade has brought about huge growth in the travel technology market. This has been reflected in a drastic change in the business operations of tour operators, DMCs and travel agents. To find and maintain success as a travel provider today , being on the cutting edge of technological trends is a must.

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Travel Daily Media

JULY 31, 2019

This year, as a special feature in the 15th anniversary show, exhibitors will offer services such as better security for travellers and their transactions, better payment models for merchants and consumers, automation in hotels and resorts, as well as personalisation of the travel and hospitality experience.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2020

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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Hotel Engine

AUGUST 3, 2022

Some automate their T&E policy and track expenses digitally. Inform Your Employees of Where and How to Book Travel Plans. The policy should also include how and where to book travel arrangements. Automate Your Policy for Ease of Use. Hotel Engine lets you build policy limits right into the travel booking process.

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 30, 2020

Often created by travel agents and customers (both accidentally and not), these holes account for about 3 percent of the airline’s revenue. Not always intentionally, but travel agents as well as passengers themselves can cause a bunch of revenue integrity problems for airlines. Sources of airline revenue leakage.

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

With the help of the channel manager that we discuss below, it distributes the hotel information to various sales channels, such as GDSs , OTAs , independent travel agents, and its own website, synchronizes reservations, and processes transactions. Besides, thousands of OTAs and travel agents work with the GDS database.

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AltexSoft Travel

JANUARY 13, 2022

While most booking operations are automated, agents also need tools to perform less trivial tasks: manage cancellations and changes to the bookings, mitigate conflicts between property owners and guests, and stay in contact with both groups to ensure they’re satisfied. A travel booking engine performs two roles.

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AltexSoft Travel

JANUARY 19, 2021

A carrier’s operator or authorized travel agent logs into the CRS/GDS to build a PNR file with five mandatory elements (to be discussed later in the section about PNR data). If, for example, a travel agent uses Amadeus to book a flight operated by a Sabre-hosted carrier, there will be at least two PNRs with their own record locators.

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AltexSoft Travel

MARCH 13, 2020

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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AltexSoft Travel

OCTOBER 27, 2023

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. Source: Phocuswright. percent from 2023 to 2027.

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AltexSoft Travel

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This website within a website is available only for authorized users and is used by travel agents and corporate clients to access exclusive prices and propositions established per preliminary agreements. This automation eliminates mistakes with overbooking or seat allocation. Automated pricing. API connections.

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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

JULY 20, 2020

Here, HTNG covers two additional functions: Travel Agent Commission specs that simplify the process of paying commissions to travel agents and expands upon Open Travel HotelCommNotifRQ.xsd – Commission Event Update Request. Payment processing automation. Commissions are sent only after the guest check-in.

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 24, 2023

Process automation and no more manual reconciliation. Virtual cards automate the end-to-end B2B payment flow, reducing manual work and decreasing processing costs by up to 70 percent. Say, a traveling employee who pays with a virtual card doesn’t need to gather receipts since all expenses will be automatically captured.

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

A bed bank (also called a wholesaler ) is a B2B company that purchases rooms from accommodation providers in a bulk at a discounted, static price for specific dates and sells them to OTAs, travel agents, airlines, or tour operators. Travel agents can book inventory via a booking website.

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AltexSoft Travel

DECEMBER 10, 2019

A modern PSS is a complex structure, combining dozens of tools and applications which automate a wide range of passenger-related activities. The first CRS appeared in the 1960s was SABRE (Semi-Automated Business Research Environment) , which later evolved into one of three major global distribution systems (GDSs).

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AltexSoft Travel

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

These industry players buy hotel rooms in bulk and sell them to OTAs, travel agents, or even airlines. These computer networks dominate the travel distribution and store inventories, schedules, and fares for all types of services: from hotels to ferries. Online Travel Agency building blocks and technology. Booking desk.

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AltexSoft Travel

AUGUST 26, 2020

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. If you’re running multiple campaigns and need some automation, check their REST-ful API.

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AltexSoft Travel

DECEMBER 23, 2019

So, for travel agencies, it’s quite difficult to stay afloat, unless they find some specific niche. They would rather follow the word of mouth or go to their old, time-tested local travel agent or stick to larger players. So, new travel agencies have to work hard to break through the wall of mistrust. Invisibility.

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