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

AltexSoft Travel

Clunky websites have guests email or even call for information, availability updates are often manual, and check-ins and ancillary bookings also often happen only in person. For a modern customer, grown to love the convenience of eCommerce, such experience contrasts with what they expect. Guest payments.

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

AltexSoft Travel

What is the Online Travel Agency? Online Travel Agency or OTA is a website (or app) specialized in selling travel services to customers. Travelers can go directly to the hotel’s or airline’s website but around 44 percent of people go to OTAs to compare prices and see the whole pool of options. How OTAs work.

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

AltexSoft Travel

A short and easy BNPL instruction from Priceline So if you as a travel business owner or revenue manager consider adopting BNPL to get a competitive advantage and increase customer reach, here’s what you have to do. Many big lenders come preconnected with major eCommerce platforms, point-of-sale providers, and payment gateways.

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