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Experiential Travel Explained: Players, Distribution Landscape, and Opportunities

AltexSoft Travel

If you run or plan to launch a travel business and want to capitalize on the experiential tourism trend, here are your options of how you can fit in. Experiential travel distribution. Local suppliers are the ones that create the initial travel products. Connectivity in the travel industry. Here’s how it works.

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Cultivating Collaborations with DMCs to Drive International Luxury Travel

DCI

The international luxury travel market is looking for exclusivity, with Travel Weekly dubbing the new wave of travel “ ultraluxe.” Most travel advisors, unfortunately, can’t handle these customized bookings on their own. As international travel continues to rebuild, financial resources continue to be scarce.

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How to Brand Your Destination: a Complete Guide

Solimar International

It is the promise being made to the target audience that is derived from the product or destination’s uniqueness. It is recommended to involve stakeholders to better understand how they perceive the uniqueness of your destination. The second tier is labeled emotional benefits. These are simply considered marketing tools.

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

AltexSoft Travel

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. Destination Management Companies or DMCs are the needed link connecting travelers and service providers. Who does then? Accommodation.

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Travel Agency Inventory System: Main Sources and Management Aspects

AltexSoft Travel

Travel agencies serve as intermediaries between travel products suppliers who want to expand their customer reach and travelers who want to see what their options are and book a number of travel services from one convenient interface. What is travel inventory? Travel inventory can include.

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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

There are different ways for hotels and OTAs to connect: via Extranet, a Channel Manager software , or API connecting with hotels’ Central Reservation Systems. These industry players buy hotel rooms in bulk and sell them to OTAs, travel agents, or even airlines. Online Travel Agency building blocks and technology.

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