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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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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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Bye bye group bookings? Marriott cuts strategic meetings and corporate travel commissions in North America

Travel Daily Media

In the letter, Marriott said that it would honour the 10% commission fee for all contracts signed prior to that date. King added that Marriott continues to invest in improving groups and meetings, like its centralised group support desk and its group intermediary website which launched in 2008.

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ABTA rolls out “specialist material” to coronavirus support hub

Travel Daily Media

On demand webinar ‘Supply chain and contract risk management’ with Kemp Little and ABTA’s Simon Bunce. 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. Free corporate and restructuring helpline from RSM.

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BLOG – DISCOVERY SERIES: PRODUCTIVITY

Open Destinations

The extranet allows hoteliers more flexibility when updating contracts in Travel Studio. AGENT PORTAL. A benefit for B2B customers, the agent portal within Travel Studio allows our customers to open up Travel Studio access to any travel agent.

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

AltexSoft Travel

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. Self-service touchpoints on the traveler journey.

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12 Important Do’s and Don’ts of Business Travel Management

Hotel Engine

Today’s business travelers are likely to book directly on a hotel’s website, use an OTA like Expedia, a reseller like Kayak, or a travel agent. But if you have several different travelers booking hotels in several different ways, it can make things extremely complicated.