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

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Here, we will cover all the accreditation types, their application process, and benefits to help you make an educated choice. What is Travel Agency Accreditation? There are many more companies selling travel services than the ones providing them. So, what are the main benefits of having an IATA accreditation?

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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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Sabre and other GDSs act not only as wholesalers of travel services. Their staple product is APIs or application programming interfaces that allow retailers to access the inventory from millions of suppliers and make reservations online. Certification: when your integration can go live. How APIs make systems talk to each other.

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Host Travel Agencies: Why You Need Them and How to Choose the Best Option

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This article explains how host agencies work, what benefits they offer to travel professionals, and how to choose the right fit out of endless options. What is a host travel agency? Roughly, hosts act as middlemen between the network of travel retailers, often with no experience, and travel suppliers. “A

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Airline Consolidators Overview: Their Role, Advantages, and Key Players

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Most of the large consolidators appeared in the 1970-1980s when airlines had more seats than they could ever sell via travel retailers. Consolidators pass on net fares to travel agencies, charging a premium on top of each seat. In any case, travel agents get a good margin to earn money. Access to major GDSs.

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New Distribution Capability (NDC) for Airlines: Key Providers and Implementation Scenarios

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In this article, we’ll discuss the key benefits and specifics of NDC adoption within the established airline distribution pipeline and also describe a number of scenarios of such transition with important NDC providers. What NDC is and how airlines can benefit from adopting it. Offer personalization. Order management.

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Airline Reservation Systems and Passenger Service Systems: Navitaire, Amadeus Altea, SabreSonic and more

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SABRE’s successors benefited from the same operating system called Transaction Processing Facility (TPF) and designed to handle a high volume of transactions on mainframe computers. Retailing platform. You can read more about the benefits of NDC in our article — NDC in Air Travel. Three generations of PSS. ?