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Hotelbeds API Integration: Hands-on Experience with a Leading Bed Bank

AltexSoft Travel

In the ever-evolving travel industry landscape, the seamless integration of global accommodation providers is pivotal. OTAs, hotel booking platforms , and other travel businesses need to have real-time access to extensive hotel inventories to offer diverse choices to their customers. APItude hotel APIs Hotel Booking API.

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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. Booking engine and payments processing. Components of tour packages.

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Hotel Booking APIs: Wholesalers, Channel managers, and GDS

AltexSoft Travel

The APIs by key global distribution systems, the main players on the travel distribution market. Connectivity with key bed banks that purchase rooms in bulk. Sourcing inventories of the largest online travel agencies. So, where do these bookings come from? Book hotel rooms. Hotel booking requests are free!

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Airline Reporting Corporation and IATA Billing and Settlement Plan: How they Work

AltexSoft Travel

Things are quite confusing here and nascent travel agents can easily get overwhelmed with understanding what’s IATA, how IATAN is different, why ARC number is the same as IATAN number… And a whole lot of other questions. Sounds complicated, but in plain English, BSP is a payment mediator between airlines and travel agents.

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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. Let’s explore what they actually can do and how their functions and tasks vary across travel businesses. Travel content mapping.

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Travel Agency Accreditation, Explained: IATA, IATAN, ARC, CLIA, and TRUE

AltexSoft Travel

Many starting travel agencies or individual agents join a host agency for access to booking capabilities. Independent agents and agencies. Corporate Travel Departments. There are special programs not for agencies but for organizations that regularly book travel for their employees’ business trips.

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How to Get IATA Accreditation for Travel Business: Options and Steps to Take

AltexSoft Travel

This is the main advantage that eliminates the need for other middlemen, simplifies the booking processes, and cuts expenses for both agents and airlines. IATA-certified agents must commit to an industry ethical codes and meet the general industry procedure standards. Hence, suppliers and agents can communicate directly.