AltexSoft Travel

MARCH 2, 2020

Some DMCs add widgets of car rental providers to their websites. Travel-associated services. Some DMCs are one-stop-shops that serve the whole traveling process including visas, insurance, and other related documents. So how travel agencies can collaborate with DMCs – be it a group or a single entity?

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 14, 2022

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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AltexSoft Travel

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

IATA-certified agents must commit to an industry ethical codes and meet the general industry procedure standards. Working as an IATA agent also means including the IATA logo and branding on travel agents’ premises and websites. Hence, suppliers and agents can communicate directly. Credibility.

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AltexSoft Travel

MARCH 23, 2022

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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AltexSoft Travel

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

What is the Online Travel Agency? Online Travel Agency or OTA is a website (or app) specialized in selling travel services to customers. 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. How OTAs work.

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AltexSoft Travel

OCTOBER 27, 2023

As Phocuswright’s US Online Travel Agency Market Report 2022-2026 shows, OTAs receive only 22 percent of total gross bookings, lagging well behind direct supplier channels (41 percent) and offline agencies (37 percent). The channel share in US travel as of 2022. A customizable website. Source: Phocuswright. A mobile app.

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Hotel Engine

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Re-opening the world is a rare opportunity to start fresh with your company’s travel management policies. Whether you oversee travel management for 5 or 5000, now is a great time to set up new guidelines for communication, reiterate the company travel policies, and streamline your workflow.

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AltexSoft Travel

JANUARY 13, 2022

They aggregate listings from around the web and are commonly used by travelers to compare available options. Connectivity with these players allows AA platforms to reach the end customer and drive bookings to the website. These are the mechanisms supporting communication with different types of suppliers and their own systems.

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Open Destinations

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In addition, the tour operators using Travel Studio are provided with instant updates of all communications with hotel suppliers, guaranteeing that sales agents, XML connections and websites have real-time access to pricing, allocations, special offers and hotel content. AGENT PORTAL.

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 30, 2021

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. In the IATA interlining framework, systems communicate with each other via the EDIFACT data exchange protocol, established in the 1980s. Extra benefits.

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 20, 2020

In 2012, IATA revolutionized flight distribution connectivity by introducing New Distribution Capability (NDC) – a standard for displaying rich airline content on online travel websites. Food and Beverage Ordering defines the interface for communication between a device (kiosk, guest’s phone, TV) and a POS system.

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AltexSoft Travel

MAY 8, 2020

“On the one side, this program module connects with customer interfaces to accept search requests, Andrey Chebotarev, travel technology practice leader at AltexSoft puts in the picture, On the other side, it integrates with systems used by suppliers — airlines, hotels, car rental companies — to control and distribute their inventory.”.

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Solimar International

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

in Journalism with an emphasis in Strategic Communication and a minor in Business. In addition to her travels, she still found time to sit on the spouse’s club board, as well as get a Certificate in Nonprofit Management and Grant Writing. She graduated from the University of Missouri last Spring with her B.A.

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Travel Daily Media

MAY 20, 2020

The hub can be accessed through the ‘Partner services’ tab in the ABTA website Member Zone and it also contains information on helplines, on-demand webinars and offers from Partners.

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AltexSoft Travel

JUNE 25, 2022

Due to the specific nature of the industry, the face of scamming in travel wears a lot of masks that often look quite credible to the naked eye. Travel frauds can range from bonus/loyalty abuse to bookings made with stolen credit cards leading to chargebacks to fake online travel websites, etc.

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AltexSoft Travel

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Direct channels include: An eCommerce website/app. Indirect sales come from: Traditional travel agencies. Online travel agencies. Travel management companies. Booking engines are used on a railway operator’s website and an app, and can also come in different types. On-board point-of-sale devices. API connections.

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AltexSoft Travel

JUNE 9, 2023

Also, it’s quite easy to integrate with OpenAI APIs since they are modern REST APIs with detailed API reference documentation that can be found on OpenAI’s official website. ” Also, Expedia has developed a plugin for ChatGPT , available along with other plugins on the OpenAI website. More on them further in the text.

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AltexSoft Travel

OCTOBER 9, 2019

GDS is one of the first abbreviations you learn in the travel business. Global Distribution Systems are responsible for providing booking websites with unified access to a massive inventory of flights, hotel rooms, car rental companies, cruises, and much more. What is a GDS? The price also varies, depending on duration and complexity.

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AltexSoft Travel

DECEMBER 23, 2019

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. Invisibility.

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Booking.com offers solutions for: OTAs and destination websites, hotel channel managers, property owners, affiliates like travel bloggers and media outlets. If you’re an OTA or a destination website , scroll down to the Demand API. Demand API for booking websites. communicate with guests. Hotel Booking Systems.

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

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. Rich content integration. Order management.

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AltexSoft Travel

AUGUST 26, 2020

It originated from the airline industry and slowly tried to capture adjacent travel segments. Global distribution systems gather data from multiple sources, create their APIs, and distribute them across travel agents and OTAs. But hotels that strive for direct booking can place on their booking websites: Ratings and awards.

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AltexSoft Travel

DECEMBER 10, 2019

It was just another reminder of overall aviation IT fragility, caused by different factors, from aging technologies to poor communication between different components to the introduction of immature solutions. In the SOA scenario, software components communicate with each other via Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) using messaging protocols.

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Social Tables

DECEMBER 27, 2018

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. Leading events are creating apps to help with agendas, engagement, communication, and even surprise-and-delight inclusions.

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