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Marrakesh is Set for Recovery Following Morocco Earthquake

Smart Meetings

TRUMARKETING is a boutique sales and marketing firm representing tourist boards, destination management companies (DMCs) and hotel partners around the globe in promotional and sales campaigns. This is a very good signal to clients that the destination is okay, that Morocco will survive and life will go on,” he says.

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Travel Booking Engines: Types, Functionality, and Integrations

AltexSoft Travel

A booking engine is the brains behind distributing travel products online. Trip-related companies employ different types of booking engines to run core processes instead of human personnel. Internet booking engine: its key functionality and main integrations. How a travel booking engine works. Key features.

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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. In most cases, tour operators book travel services from external suppliers. You’ll be able to send booking requests and receive confirmations and other status updates through your own system interface.

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Experiential Travel Explained: Players, Distribution Landscape, and Opportunities

AltexSoft Travel

Immersive travel implies, well, immersing in the foreign culture which in most cases means mingling with the community at the place of destination, engaging in traditional activities, attending local events and so on. Destination management companies: contracting local experiences. Connectivity in the travel industry.

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

AltexSoft Travel

There are different ways for hotels and OTAs to connect: via Extranet, a Channel Manager software , or API connecting with hotels’ Central Reservation Systems. Bed banks or wholesalers. Here’s more info on the largest bed banks and how OTAs can work with them. How a booking engine works. Booking and ticketing flow.

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Sustaining the Resilience of Community-Based Tourism Initiatives in Brazil

Solimar International

Two coordinators in charge of the tourism agenda take care of the online bookings; negotiations with tourism agencies; management of the tourism package; hiring and training of local tour guides; elaboration of budgets; purchases for the inn; hiring of support staff and collecting tourism revenue. Contact us to learn more.

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Travel Agency Inventory System: Main Sources and Management Aspects

AltexSoft Travel

Travel agencies serve as intermediaries between travel products suppliers who want to expand their customer reach and travelers who want to see what their options are and book a number of travel services from one convenient interface. Dynamic packaging engine vs traditional booking engine.