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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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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. GDSs , hotels/lodges/ alternative accommodation , airlines, bed banks , transfer providers/ car rentals , activity suppliers/ destination management companies , and so on.

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Alternative Accommodations Distribution: Back Office of a Vacation Rental Agency

AltexSoft Travel

These are the mechanisms supporting communication with different types of suppliers and their own systems. Bed banks connection. The indirect way to get rental inventory on your website is by partnering with a bed bank. Bed banks or wholesalers are B2B platforms that collect inventories by exclusively partnering with suppliers.

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Website Localization in Travel: Key Aspects and Best Practices

AltexSoft Travel

As a hotel, airline, OTA, or other company that works with travelers, you have to translate and customize all the elements of your digital product: Customer-facing content ( descriptions, landing pages, blog materials, FAQs and help desks , the “About us” section, terms and conditions, contacts, marketing and advertising materials etc.);

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

AltexSoft Travel

OTAs compile their rich inventories by connecting to different partners via APIs – pieces of code allowing for the communication between different software systems. Bed banks or wholesalers. These industry players buy hotel rooms in bulk and sell them to OTAs, travel agents, or even airlines.

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