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

AltexSoft Travel

Our article explains why services of airfare wholesalers are still sought-after, what problems they solve, and how their air offerings differ from standard fares you can find online. In any case, travel agents get a good margin to earn money. Large wholesalers have contracts with all main Global Distribution Systems or GDSs.

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

AltexSoft Travel

A leading global distribution system in North America, Sabre leverages the content from airlines, hotels, car rentals, and other travel suppliers across the world. Instead of connecting with thousands of vendors separately, an online booking platform can integrate with just one GDS — and tap into the almost exhaustless source of information.

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Tour Operator Software: Itinerary Creator, Booking Engine, and Other Handy Technologies

AltexSoft Travel

For the record, the business developed into a global company operating its airline and dealing with multi-million revenue streams, went through a compulsory liquidation in 2019, and was relaunched as an online-only travel agency in 2020. What is a tour operator: definition, types, and challenges. Components of tour packages.

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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. Connectivity in the travel industry.

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Hotel Booking APIs: Wholesalers, Channel managers, and GDS

AltexSoft Travel

The APIs by key global distribution systems, the main players on the travel distribution market. Connectivity with direct software vendors of hotels. Sourcing inventories of the largest online travel agencies. It originated from the airline industry and slowly tried to capture adjacent travel segments.

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

AltexSoft Travel

To be fair, the idea of self-service travel is nothing new. Back then, self-service used to simply mean “without a travel agent”, and in 2020, with up to 80 percent of travelers booking directly online – it’s a norm. Special needs travelers. Travelers with complex itineraries. Large groups.

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Travel Payments Integration: Hands-On Experience with Solutions for OTAs and Other Resellers

AltexSoft Travel

More than two-thirds of sales in travel and tourism are made via the Internet, and the share of online vs offline bookings will only grow in the coming years. So the ability to accept online payments is becoming vital for any travel business. How many payment flows you need to implement.

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