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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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Timatic by IATA: Travel Requirements Database, Explained

AltexSoft Travel

Timatic allows airlines, airport staff, and travel agents to fulfill two tasks: check if the passenger is valid for travel and prevent immigration fines and expenses associated with returning incorrectly-boarded passengers to the airport. providing passengers with travel rules at the time of booking.

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Hotel Online Payments: How and Why to Transform Your Payment Process

AltexSoft Travel

But B2B payments are just as important – those are the payments between a hotel and its partners such as online travel agencies (OTAs) , travel agents, travel management companies (TMCs) , corporates, and so on. And if you accept online payment, it’s also involved in the flow. Guest payments. B2B payments.

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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. The Services section mainly caters to those who work with airlines, i.e., travel agents, freight forwarders, airports, ground handlers, and other industry partners.

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FCM reveals how it’s supercharging client servicing through a human-centred approach to generative AI 

Travel Daily Media

With this feature, corporate travel managers can dispel standard templates and use AI to be their researcher and copywriter to easily create notifications and “pop up” priorities, prompts and nudges to guide employee booking behaviour across major online booking tools and more than 2.000 consumer travel sites.

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5 Reasons Why Every Hotel Should Have Its Own Website

Leonardo

Your website is an exceptional way to showcase your hotel’s individuality and put forth the best representation of your hotel online. . Here’s a look at the benefits that stem from creating and updating your own website. . Most online travel agents do not allow non-hotel photos in your listing. source images ?from

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

AltexSoft Travel

Probably, the most important benefit of ARC accreditation is the ability to issue airline tickets. ARC Verified Travel Consultant (VTC): for non-ticketing travel professionals. So, it’s well worth considering, if you can partner with a consolidator or a host travel agency that would take charge of ticketing.

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