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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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Railway Reservation System: How to Drive Online Train Bookings

AltexSoft Travel

Train travel is in a disadvantaged position in our world. After dominating transport for over 100 years , railways no longer hold the competition with air travel. One of the most interesting differences between how air and train transport operate is the role technology takes in each. Lack of customer data.

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Tour Operator Software: Itinerary Creator, Booking Engine, and Other Handy Technologies

AltexSoft Travel

Thomas Cook, an iconic travel company from the UK, is believed to be the first tour operator. In 1841, its founder chartered a train to carry temperance supporters to a meeting 12 miles away – and that was the world’s first package tour. In most cases, tour operators book travel services from external suppliers.

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Airline Reporting Corporation and IATA Billing and Settlement Plan: How they Work

AltexSoft Travel

Things are quite confusing here and nascent travel agents can easily get overwhelmed with understanding what’s IATA, how IATAN is different, why ARC number is the same as IATAN number… And a whole lot of other questions. Sounds complicated, but in plain English, BSP is a payment mediator between airlines and travel agents.

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Revenue Integrity in Airlines: How to Solve Revenue Leakage Problems

AltexSoft Travel

Often created by travel agents and customers (both accidentally and not), these holes account for about 3 percent of the airline’s revenue. Revenue leakage is the mismatch between the expected revenue from the bookings that were made and the amount that airlines eventually receive. Unticketed booking. Duplicate booking.

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

AltexSoft Travel

We already have a detailed guide on IATA accreditation that is a good explainer of all the main concepts and parties in the travel agency accreditation process. In contrast, there’s also an article about booking and ticketing for non-IATA agencies which describes other ways to sell flights. The flight booking algorithm explained.

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12 Important Do’s and Don’ts of Business Travel Management

Hotel Engine

Re-opening the world is a rare opportunity to start fresh with your company’s travel management policies. Whether you oversee travel management for 5 or 5000, now is a great time to set up new guidelines for communication, reiterate the company travel policies, and streamline your workflow. Don’t Book Last Minute.