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

AltexSoft Travel

As a result, the bank takes the money from a merchant and returns it to the cardholder. Many travel providers admit that they find it difficult or even impossible to handle all requests, so they are forced to pay out on almost every occasion, whether a chargeback is liable or fraudulent. What to do to prevent fraud?

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

AltexSoft Travel

IATA-certified agents must commit to an industry ethical codes and meet the general industry procedure standards. Working as an IATA agent also means including the IATA logo and branding on travel agents’ premises and websites. Hence, suppliers and agents can communicate directly. Credibility.

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

AltexSoft Travel

As Phocuswright’s US Online Travel Agency Market Report 2022-2026 shows, OTAs receive only 22 percent of total gross bookings, lagging well behind direct supplier channels (41 percent) and offline agencies (37 percent). The channel share in US travel as of 2022. How booking engines work in online travel agencies.