AltexSoft Travel

MARCH 24, 2022

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. Booking the same hotel on Booking.com vs the hotel’s own website. So, it’s not uncommon for these intermediaries to use a mix of agent and merchant models.

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AltexSoft Travel

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

And not only does it adapt the menus, but also advertising campaigns, website pages, and entire business plans to attract local foodies. If you operate a travel business, you most likely deal with multinational customers, and it’s crucial for you to localize your content and services and make them more understandable. And it works.

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Among that, 40 percent of the reservations are made via Booking.com, 32 percent — via other aggregators, and 21 percent — through a hotel’s website. As rooms get booked, it syncs the inventory information throughout all the online platforms to prevent overbooking and also maintains rate parity. Hotel booking process.

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AltexSoft Travel

JANUARY 13, 2022

Alternative accommodation platforms are new players in the travel distribution field. It’s important for an AA platform to build solid connections with channel managers to drive more listings to the site. Platforms like Google, Kayak and TripAdvisor are many OTAs’ main sources of traffic. Wholesalers/bedbanks.

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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

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. In the meantime, the OTA may keep card information to pay a fare once PNR is ready.

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AltexSoft Travel

MAY 26, 2022

For a passenger, who buys the flight via a website, it may seem like a single flow since everything goes so smoothly and fast. The first step is the flight search that can happen on different platforms — airline web pages, online travel agencies, or metasearch engines. Instead, they redirect a user to the airline website or OTA.

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AltexSoft Travel

MAY 8, 2020

By customer interfaces we mean a travel provider’s website, mobile application, or chatbot that links with a booking engine via an API layer , enabling consumers to search and book flights, hotel rooms, holiday packages, insurance, and other travel products. B2C booking engines for OTAs and leisure travelers.

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AltexSoft Travel

JUNE 21, 2022

A short video about what API connectivity in travel is about. Travelers often turn to travel agents instead of airline websites to compare options, get better deals, or book several flights from different airlines in one place. Though today, travel agents turn to them for a wider range of travel products.

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AltexSoft Travel

JANUARY 19, 2021

The essential trip data is gathered when an individual passenger or organization books a flight via a travel retailer — carrier’s website, online travel agency (OTA), travel management company (TMC), tour operator, or other channels. Source: Bank Info Security. PNR as a part of the flight booking process.

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AltexSoft Travel

DECEMBER 10, 2019

This approach led to the uprising of the second generation platforms which essentially amount to a patchwork of integrations, not always correctly synced and perfectly adjusted. No matter the generation, every PSS has customer-facing solutions to communicate with users — be it a website, mobile app, chatbot, or kiosk at the airport.

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Travelers still stick to comprehensive booking platforms like OTAs and price aggregators. Until the 2000s, airlines managed to maintain direct relations with travel agencies via Computer Reservation Systems (CRSs). This is the information you can act upon – customize offers to meet the exact, known needs of each traveler.

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AltexSoft Travel

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

What is the Online Travel Agency? Online Travel Agency or OTA is a website (or app) specialized in selling travel services to customers. Travelers can go directly to the hotel’s or airline’s website but around 44 percent of people go to OTAs to compare prices and see the whole pool of options. How OTAs work.

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AltexSoft Travel

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A short and easy BNPL instruction from Priceline So if you as a travel business owner or revenue manager consider adopting BNPL to get a competitive advantage and increase customer reach, here’s what you have to do. Many big lenders come preconnected with major eCommerce platforms, point-of-sale providers, and payment gateways.

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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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