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Experiential Travel Explained: Players, Distribution Landscape, and Opportunities

AltexSoft Travel

Tour operators are travel companies that devise itineraries, create corresponding multi-component tour packages, sell them to travel agents or travelers, and make sure everything goes well from the start to the end of the trip, having full responsibility to the traveler. Tour operators: providing turn-key services.

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Airline Reservation Systems and Passenger Service Systems: Navitaire, Amadeus Altea, SabreSonic and more

AltexSoft Travel

And the first step to this goal is turning websites and mobile apps into intelligent eCommerce platforms. Apart from flights, Ryanair website offers tickets, cars to hire, rooms to book, and rich content on travel destinations. eCommerce websites allow airlines to sell additional services directly to their customers.

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

AltexSoft Travel

The first thing to keep in mind when you go into eCommerce is PCI DSS compliance. 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.

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New Distribution Capability (NDC) for Airlines: Key Providers and Implementation Scenarios

AltexSoft Travel

This is the information you can act upon – customize offers to meet the exact, known needs of each traveler. Unlike EDIFACT, able to submit only fares and schedules to OTAs, the NDC standard allows for delivering comprehensive flight information to travel agents. Amadeus is a holder of IATA dual level 4 certification.

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Buy Now Pay Later for a Travel Business: How BNPL Works and Ways to Implement It

AltexSoft Travel

Many big lenders come preconnected with major eCommerce platforms, point-of-sale providers, and payment gateways. To add Klarna’s service is easy if you use the platform of one of its eCommerce partners (which probably isn’t your case since travel businesses rarely build Shopify websites) or Stripe. fee for each transaction.

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