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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. Connectivity in the travel industry.

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Destination Management Companies: How Travel Agencies Can Tap Into DMC Potential

AltexSoft Travel

The travel service market operates on a large scale. Online and offline travel agencies provide a wide selection of services to a wide range of audiences, so they rarely have control over the resources at the immediate destination. How Destination Management Companies work. Who does then? Accommodation.

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How to Brand Your Destination: a Complete Guide

Solimar International

It is recommended to involve stakeholders to better understand how they perceive the uniqueness of your destination. Start a conversation with small tourism businesses, travel agents and tour operators promoting your destination, local authority or former visitors and gather their emotions about your destination.

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Travel Agency Inventory System: Main Sources and Management Aspects

AltexSoft Travel

So, to help travel businesses make an informed choice, we’ll describe where and how travel inventory can be sourced and what its main management aspects are. Travel agency inventory basics. In this article, we’ll mainly talk about the online travel agency (OTA) businesses and their operational model.

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Travel Booking Engines: Types, Functionality, and Integrations

AltexSoft Travel

A booking engine is the brains behind distributing travel products online. Let’s explore what they actually can do and how their functions and tasks vary across travel businesses. It allows a customer to combine different travel products — flights, rooms, car rentals, attractions — within the same booking flow.

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Understanding Online Travel Agency Business: Partners, Building Blocks, How to Grow

AltexSoft Travel

Online travel agencies are some of the youngest players in the travel market. Since their appearance in the 90s, they flipped travel distribution, became hotels’ biggest enemies , and changed how people research, plan, and buy their trips. What is the Online Travel Agency? But let’s start with the basics.

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