Remove Contracts Remove Location Remove Retail Remove Travel Agent
article thumbnail

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

AltexSoft Travel

Sabre and other GDSs act not only as wholesalers of travel services. Their staple product is APIs or application programming interfaces that allow retailers to access the inventory from millions of suppliers and make reservations online. Anyway, check your location for travel business regulations. Signing a contract.

article thumbnail

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. Connectivity in the travel industry.

Travel 105
MICE professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Self-Service Technologies in Travel: End-to-End Solutions for Independent Travelers

AltexSoft Travel

Self-service technology has been sporadically implemented at different stages of travel experience, and different locations as well. What does self-service mean for travel? To be fair, the idea of self-service travel is nothing new. Special needs travelers. Travelers with complex itineraries. Large groups.

article thumbnail

Bed Banks: Comparing Accommodation, Travel Ancillaries, Connectivity of Hotelbeds, Travco, Bonotel, HotelsPro, and WebBeds

AltexSoft Travel

A bed bank (also called a wholesaler ) is a B2B company that purchases rooms from accommodation providers in a bulk at a discounted, static price for specific dates and sells them to OTAs, travel agents, airlines, or tour operators. Travel agents can book inventory via a booking website. Accommodation. Connectivity.

Banking 25
article thumbnail

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. What is a GDS? Negotiate competitive deals.