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

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IATA accreditation for air travel: IATA vs IATAN vs TIDS International Air Transport Association or IATA is a global trade association of airlines that develops standards and practices for the aviation industry. IATA accreditation exists to verify travel agencies and control the revenue flow, and it’s accepted worldwide. How to apply?

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Experiential Travel Explained: Players, Distribution Landscape, and Opportunities

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

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Some states and countries force travel agencies to acquire additional permits and buy security bonds or bank guarantees to make air and non-air bookings. In the US, four states have their unique Seller of Travel (SOT) Laws and licensing — namely, California, Florida, Washington, and Hawaii. The fragment of Sabre’s intake form.

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

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What is Hotelbeds: Key things to know Hotelbeds is the largest bed bank in the hospitality sector that provides an extensive listing of accommodations and other travel offerings worldwide. It covers comments, descriptions, illustrative hotel pictures, and locational details. Initiating the certification.

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

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These include airline designator code for reservation, ticketing, scheduling, and documentation; a prefix code to classify passengers and cargo; a baggage tag issuer code to simplify baggage handling; and location code for easier package handling. The full accreditation also means that the agent follows standard ethics and behavioral codes.

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

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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 Payments Integration: Hands-On Experience with Solutions for OTAs and Other Resellers

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“OTAs integrate with payment gateways and tokenization tools to outsource as much data security headache as possible, ” Ivan Mosiev, a Solution Architect engaged in many travel projects at AltexSoft, explains. The organization also made it mandatory for all IATA-accredited travel agents to adhere to the security standard.

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