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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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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. Basically, combining travel services in a bundle and developing a complete tour is the most important part of a tour operator’s job and that’s what distinguishes it from travel agents.

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Website Localization in Travel: Key Aspects and Best Practices

AltexSoft Travel

As a hotel, airline, OTA, or other company that works with travelers, you have to translate and customize all the elements of your digital product: Customer-facing content ( descriptions, landing pages, blog materials, FAQs and help desks , the “About us” section, terms and conditions, contacts, marketing and advertising materials etc.);

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Alternative Accommodations Distribution: Back Office of a Vacation Rental Agency

AltexSoft Travel

These are the mechanisms supporting communication with different types of suppliers and their own systems. Typically, you can connect to bed banks either via an extranet (useful for traditional travel agents) or an API. A travel booking engine performs two roles. We’ve divided these tools into a few categories.

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Understanding Online Travel Agency Business: Partners, Building Blocks, How to Grow

AltexSoft Travel

Travelers can go directly to the hotel’s or airline’s website but around 44 percent of people go to OTAs to compare prices and see the whole pool of options. OTAs compile their rich inventories by connecting to different partners via APIs – pieces of code allowing for the communication between different software systems.

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Marketing for Travel Agencies: Understanding and Surviving in the Online Travel Industry

AltexSoft Travel

This calls for quite intricate approaches to marketing, distribution, and travel products themselves. Here, we will describe the distribution and communication channels, revenue management techniques, product positioning, and technology that will make you survive. Understanding the travel agency market. Invest in SEO.

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