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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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How A Destination Management Company Will Help Your Corporate Event

Traveler's Q

Their work in providing a range of services that include transportation, accommodation, dining, entertainment, and team-building activities. Your destination management company and travel agent will need to know all the specific activities you have in mind. Will they travel by foot, car, or public transport?

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Navigating Cultural Differences: Effective Strategies for Managing Guests in a Foreign Destination

Traveler's Q

They specialize in providing a range of services that include transportation, accommodation, dining, entertainment, and team-building activities. You should also include details on how your guests can get to each activity, whether it’s by foot, car, or public transport.

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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. Typically, tour packages include such elements as transportation, accommodation, airport transfers, activities, tours, and so on. Components of tour packages.

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Connecting Flights: Virtual Interlining Benefits and How to Seize Them

AltexSoft Travel

They are controlled by the International Air Transport Association — IATA which still represents 82 percent of air traffic. Otherwise, the carrier for this role is typically selected by a travel agent. On a passenger’s or travel agent’s request, the GDS or PSS builds an itinerary. What is interlining.

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

AltexSoft Travel

Until the 2000s, airlines managed to maintain direct relations with travel agencies via Computer Reservation Systems (CRSs). At that time, the US Transportation Department obliged airlines to share the same inventory content across all CRSs equally. It’s not a secret that core transportation services bring little margins.

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19 Event Trends That Will Shake Up Meetings & Group Business in 2019

Social Tables

In other words, planners are not just meeting coordinators, they are now ad-hoc travel agents. Cultural interactions, local dining, experiential travel, and team-building activities are all in the mix. At the proposal level, venues can personalize by showcasing different event-specific variations. Key Takeaway for Venues.

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