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Hotel Online Payments: How and Why to Transform Your Payment Process

AltexSoft Travel

For a modern customer, grown to love the convenience of eCommerce, such experience contrasts with what they expect. Complying with complex and constantly changing regulations. First, there are credit cards used both at the point-of-sale terminals and online, when paying via your booking engine. Guest payments. B2B payments.

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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. Tour operators: providing turn-key services.

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Understanding Online Travel Agency Business: Partners, Building Blocks, How to Grow

AltexSoft Travel

Online travel agencies are some of the youngest players in the travel market. Since their appearance in the 90s, they flipped travel distribution, became hotels’ biggest enemies , and changed how people research, plan, and buy their trips. What is the Online Travel Agency? But let’s start with the basics.

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Buy Now Pay Later for a Travel Business: How BNPL Works and Ways to Implement It

AltexSoft Travel

Another survey, conducted by C+R Research, states that 60 percent of online shoppers have tried the BNPL service. Many big lenders come preconnected with major eCommerce platforms, point-of-sale providers, and payment gateways. Most BNPL lenders also have online portals to handle payments that you receive offline. But worry not.

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