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

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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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Experiential Travel Explained: Players, Distribution Landscape, and Opportunities

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TripAdmit ), or even a focused, multi-featured tour operator platform (e.g., In case you’re not familiar with the concept, watch our explainer on APIs in travel. Connectivity in the travel industry. Destination management companies: contracting local experiences. TripCreator ), a channel manager (e.g.,

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

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A tour operator is a travel company that devises the trip, books its components, markets it, and sells to travelers or travel agents. In addition, the travel industry is complex and highly competitive, so to keep up with the market, you have to use the most efficient tools to support your back-end operations.

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

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What does self-service mean for 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. Large groups.

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

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In any case, travel agents get a good margin to earn money. Travel agencies add their own markups but still keep the prices lower than market rates offered by airlines. It’s worth noting that usually consolidators purchase all the allocated seats only after a contracted number of travelers pay for them.

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

AltexSoft Travel

Travel business and PCI DSS compliance levels In 2017, the International Air Transportation Association (IATA) officially supported the initiative declaring that their internal electronic system — Billing and Settlement Plan (BSP) — is compliant with PCI DSS. Yet, this step is risky from a security point of view, so it’s better to avoid it.

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Website Localization in Travel: Key Aspects and Best Practices

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We’ve touched on the topic of website localization earlier, and in this article, we want to dive deeper into the technicalities of an adaptation process and share our experience of adjusting travel platforms to foreign markets. Text expansion and contraction. Here’s a helpful table on text expansion and contraction.

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