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

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In short, IATA’s role and range of responsibilities in the travel sector are much broader as it formulates the industry policy and standards. It also provides certification services to travel agencies worldwide, while ARC works solely with agents located in the USA, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and American Samoa.

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Experiential Travel Explained: Players, Distribution Landscape, and Opportunities

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TripAdmit ), or even a focused, multi-featured tour operator platform (e.g., In case you’re not familiar with the concept, watch our explainer on APIs in travel. Connectivity in the travel industry. Destination management companies: contracting local experiences. TripCreator ), a channel manager (e.g.,

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Sabre API Integration: Hands-On Experience With a Leading GDS

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A leading global distribution system in North America, Sabre leverages the content from airlines, hotels, car rentals, and other travel suppliers across the world. Instead of connecting with thousands of vendors separately, an online booking platform can integrate with just one GDS — and tap into the almost exhaustless source of information.

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

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A tour operator is a travel company that devises the trip, books its components, markets it, and sells to travelers or travel agents. In addition, the travel industry is complex and highly competitive, so to keep up with the market, you have to use the most efficient tools to support your back-end operations.

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Airline Consolidators Overview: Their Role, Advantages, and Key Players

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In any case, travel agents get a good margin to earn money. Travel agencies add their own markups but still keep the prices lower than market rates offered by airlines. It’s worth noting that usually consolidators purchase all the allocated seats only after a contracted number of travelers pay for them.

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Travel Payments Integration: Hands-On Experience with Solutions for OTAs and Other Resellers

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“OTAs integrate with payment gateways and tokenization tools to outsource as much data security headache as possible, ” Ivan Mosiev, a Solution Architect engaged in many travel projects at AltexSoft, explains. The organization also made it mandatory for all IATA-accredited travel agents to adhere to the security standard.

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How to Choose a GDS: Amadeus vs Sabre vs Travelport

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A Global Distribution System , or GDS , is a computer network operating as a middleman between travel agents and numerous travel service providers. That is why all of the three major Global Distribution Systems that we’ll later discuss asks for a certified travel agent. The certification is obligatory.