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Maximizing Your Vacation: The Many Hats of a Travel Agent

Traveler's Q

This is where the role of a travel agent comes in handy. A professional travel agent is specialized in creating customized itineraries for clients, meeting their specific travel needs. A travel agent is a professional who can provide efficient and customized travel planning for a nominal price.

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

AltexSoft Travel

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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Airline Reporting Corporation: ARC Accreditation Options and Steps to Get It

AltexSoft Travel

In short, IATA’s role and range of responsibilities in the travel sector are much broader as it formulates the industry policy and standards. It also provides certification services to travel agencies worldwide, while ARC works solely with agents located in the USA, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and American Samoa.

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IATA Explained: The Role of International Air Transport Association in the Aviation Industry

AltexSoft Travel

This way, IATA regulations benefit all parties involved, i.e., airlines, travel agents, passengers, customers, ground handlers, and others. Besides, that’s where you can find IATA’s developer portal where external IT specialists can find tech documentation , get access to APIs and NDC guidelines, obtain certification, etc.

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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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Sabre API Integration: Hands-On Experience With a Leading GDS

AltexSoft Travel

By establishing direct relationships with Sabre, online travel agencies , travel management companies , and other distributors can benefit from a full set of travel APIs including (but not limited to). Certification: when your integration can go live. The certification usually takes four to eight weeks.

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ABTA puts coronavirus and ecotourism at the top of the agenda for Spring events

Travel Daily Media

The travel association is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year and the Regional Business Meetings will mark this milestone with a glass of champagne and commemorative certificates given to Members who have been at the association the longest.