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

AltexSoft Travel

Some states and countries force travel agencies to acquire additional permits and buy security bonds or bank guarantees to make air and non-air bookings. In the US, four states have their unique Seller of Travel (SOT) Laws and licensing — namely, California, Florida, Washington, and Hawaii. Negotiating an API set and target location.

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Hotelbeds API Integration: Hands-on Experience with a Leading Bed Bank

AltexSoft Travel

What is Hotelbeds: Key things to know Hotelbeds is the largest bed bank in the hospitality sector that provides an extensive listing of accommodations and other travel offerings worldwide. It covers comments, descriptions, illustrative hotel pictures, and locational details. Initiating the certification.

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How to Choose a GDS: Amadeus vs Sabre vs Travelport

AltexSoft Travel

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.

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Booking.com Partnership and Affiliate Programs: Extranet, Pulse App, BookingSuite, Demand API, and Connectivity APIs

AltexSoft Travel

If you have anything to do with the travel business, you may have considered partnering with such hospitality giants as Expedia and Booking.com. If you’d like to book via the Demand API, you must be compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard and have an SSL certificate. Now it’s the turn of Booking.com.

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Solimar’s Fall 2021 Sustainable Tourism Interns

Solimar International

Meet our fall 2021 sustainable tourism interns: Jonathan Atari has traveled and lived in different countries around the globe for several years, occasionally in not yet-well-known locations, experiencing them in unique ways. Previously he worked in hospitality at Refuge de l’Oule, located amid the French Pyrenees.

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Hotel Booking APIs: Wholesalers, Channel managers, and GDS

AltexSoft Travel

These three will be in your face from the moment you crack open the door to enter the hospitality industry. Global distribution systems gather data from multiple sources, create their APIs, and distribute them across travel agents and OTAs. However, in hospitality, they won’t be the first option to look at. Who uses GDSs.

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

AltexSoft Travel

As for the travel industry, it partners with Expedia, Viator, Trip.com, Alternative Airlines, and so on. However, the list of available merchants depends on the shopper’s location. This lender currently works with 200+ diverse travel partners including Kayak, United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and Royal Caribbean. Integration.

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