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

AltexSoft Travel

But if you work in the hospitality business, you must have noticed that the way people book and pay for hotels has changed, especially since the start of the pandemic. 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.

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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. Meanwhile, adventure travel is more about physical activities. Tour operators: providing turn-key services.

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Sabre API Integration: Hands-On Experience With a Leading GDS

AltexSoft Travel

A leading global distribution system in North America, Sabre leverages the content from airlines, hotels, car rentals, and other travel suppliers across the world. Instead of connecting with thousands of vendors separately, an online booking platform can integrate with just one GDS — and tap into the almost exhaustless source of information.

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Travel Fraud Protection: Key Types of Travel Scam, Protective Measures, and Software to Consider

AltexSoft Travel

This brings convenience as customers can easily search for holiday destinations, book accommodations, and make payments online. percent between 2019 and 2021 with travel and leisure being one of the industries that suffer from scamming the most. Such fraud is often used for last-minute booking purposes.

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OTA Platform: How to Choose a White-Label Solution, and When to Go Custom

AltexSoft Travel

The simplicity of the launch attracts even non-travel players: Over the past two years , a number of financial companies, retailers, and loyal clubs have presented their branded booking platforms. Plug-and-play platforms have many hidden limitations, preventing you from standing out in a saturated travel market.