AltexSoft Travel

MAY 21, 2020

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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AltexSoft Travel

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

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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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

One of the ways to get a diverse inventory portfolio is to partner with a bed bank. What is a bed bank? A bed bank (also called a wholesaler ) is a B2B company that purchases rooms from accommodation providers in a bulk at a discounted, static price for specific dates and sells them to OTAs, travel agents, airlines, or tour operators.

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

With the help of the channel manager that we discuss below, it distributes the hotel information to various sales channels, such as GDSs , OTAs , independent travel agents, and its own website, synchronizes reservations, and processes transactions. Besides, thousands of OTAs and travel agents work with the GDS database.

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AltexSoft Travel

JANUARY 19, 2021

A carrier’s operator or authorized travel agent logs into the CRS/GDS to build a PNR file with five mandatory elements (to be discussed later in the section about PNR data). It may appear under different names — a record locator, booking reference, reservation code, or just PNR. Source: Bank Info Security.

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 24, 2023

A traveler books a room for two nights via OTA and provides credit card information to pay $100 for the stay. The OTA authorizes the payment with its acquiring bank. It takes up to seven business days to process a paper-based check which must be physically delivered to the bank. With a bank transfer, you don’t have that.

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AltexSoft Travel

OCTOBER 27, 2023

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.

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AltexSoft Travel

MAY 30, 2023

Travel business and PCI DSS compliance levels In 2017, the International Air Transportation Association (IATA) officially supported the initiative declaring that their internal electronic system — Billing and Settlement Plan (BSP) — is compliant with PCI DSS.

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Motivation Excellence

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Academic research studying the benefits of incentive travel programs dates to the 1970s. The sector is supported by a wide variety of professionals, from corporate travel agents to employee performance consultants to sales verification software companies. What are the best incentive travel destinations in the U.S.?

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AltexSoft Travel

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Static, or descriptive content is the one that doesn’t change often, such as location details, amenities, policies, services descriptions, and so on. There are vendors that provide multilingual static content on properties, tours, and other travel products. Popular payment methods. Source: 2checkout. Partnering with payment gateways.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 14, 2022

Travel has hosted the International Pow Wow (IPW) to put America’s tourist destinations up for offer to travel agents from around the world. Initiatives like this expand the amount of available tourist locations that meeting planners can take advantage of. Since the first event in New York City in 1969, U.S.

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AltexSoft Travel

AUGUST 26, 2020

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. It originated from the airline industry and slowly tried to capture adjacent travel segments.

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Solimar International

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Meet our fall 2021 sustainable tourism interns: Jonathan Atari has traveled and lived in different countries around the globe for several years, occasionally in not yet-well-known locations, experiencing them in unique ways. Previously he worked in hospitality at Refuge de l’Oule, located amid the French Pyrenees.

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AltexSoft Travel

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As for the travel industry, it partners with Expedia, Viator, Trip.com, Alternative Airlines, and so on. However, the list of available merchants depends on the shopper’s location. This lender currently works with 200+ diverse travel partners including Kayak, United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and Royal Caribbean.

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