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

AltexSoft Travel

As a final chord, we outline the future of consolidators — based on the current trends. Most of the large consolidators appeared in the 1970-1980s when airlines had more seats than they could ever sell via travel retailers. Consolidators pass on net fares to travel agencies, charging a premium on top of each seat.

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IATA Explained: The Role of International Air Transport Association in the Aviation Industry

AltexSoft Travel

This way, IATA regulations benefit all parties involved, i.e., airlines, travel agents, passengers, customers, ground handlers, and others. Besides, that’s where you can find IATA’s developer portal where external IT specialists can find tech documentation , get access to APIs and NDC guidelines, obtain certification, etc.

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

AltexSoft Travel

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

AltexSoft Travel

In the last few years (and especially after the pandemic), travel trends have dramatically shifted and multiple studies prove it. Experiential travel ecosystem: business models, distribution, technologies, and representatives. Experiential travel distribution. Experiential travel benefits local communities.

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

AltexSoft Travel

It’s pretty clear that businesses have to catch up with the trends and offer their customers the desired payment options. In this post, we’ll discuss the BNPL approach in the travel industry, talk about the main BNPL providers, and look at how businesses can implement the service and benefit from it.

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

AltexSoft Travel

When choosing among NDC-enabled offer and order management platforms or PSSs, you should consider NDC certificates, granted by IATA to IT providers. The certificate level shows the real capability of a particular technology to receive and send NDC messages (offers and orders). A shopping to booking flow via Amadeus Altéa NDC.