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

AltexSoft Travel

A tour operator is a travel company that devises the trip, books its components, markets it, and sells to travelers or travel agents. In most cases, tour operators book travel services from external suppliers. Booking engine and payments processing. Components of tour packages.

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Self-Service Technologies in Travel: End-to-End Solutions for Independent Travelers

AltexSoft Travel

To be fair, the idea of self-service travel is nothing new. Back then, self-service used to simply mean “without a travel agent”, and in 2020, with up to 80 percent of travelers booking directly online – it’s a norm. Self-service touchpoints on the traveler journey. Travel research and booking.

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BLOG – DISCOVERY SERIES: PRODUCTIVITY

Open Destinations

Over the past few months we’ve published a number of ‘ Discovery Series ‘ posts, each one highlighting a different core focus of our business. These areas relate to key deliverables from the travel software and solutions that we provide.

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How content accuracy and consistency impacts revenue: A Q&A with Fred Bean

Leonardo

What it comes down to is the importance of centralizing information for improved distribution across an increasingly decentralized and siloed booking landscape. The fact is, online travel agents are often doing a better job at clearly listing a hotel’s, or a room’s, amenities than the hotel is itself.

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PMS API Data for Third-Party Apps: How to Become an Integration Partner of Leading PMSs

AltexSoft Travel

A glance at APIs of popular PMSs Cloudbeds integration – industry leader with heavy integration support A leading hospitality software provider with customers in over 157 countries, Cloudbeds has a property management system, a channel manager, a booking engine, and other products for hotels and vacation rentals.

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Booking and Ticketing for Non-IATA Travel Agencies

AltexSoft Travel

Large or small, every flight booking business must have two key processes in place: booking and ticketing. To consumers, booking a flight and receiving an e-ticket may seem like a single, seamless step, but for the business providing the service they’re actually two distinct and equally important steps.

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Railway Reservation System: How to Drive Online Train Bookings

AltexSoft Travel

Data sharing, which is the holy grail of travel distribution, is only possible when all systems operate similarly and use the same business logic, data format, and data exchange technologies. Airline technology, for example, spawned from one first booking system — Sabre. Train booking engine. API connections.