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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. Basically, combining travel services in a bundle and developing a complete tour is the most important part of a tour operator’s job and that’s what distinguishes it from travel agents.

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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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Alternative Accommodations Distribution: Back Office of a Vacation Rental Agency

AltexSoft Travel

Bed banks or wholesalers are B2B platforms that collect inventories by exclusively partnering with suppliers. Typically, you can connect to bed banks either via an extranet (useful for traditional travel agents) or an API. A travel booking engine performs two roles. Bed banks connection. Search and booking engine.

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