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5 Reasons Why Every Hotel Should Have Its Own Website

Leonardo

Your website is an exceptional way to showcase your hotel’s individuality and put forth the best representation of your hotel online. . walk their own path while still following SEO and user experience best practices. Most online travel agents do not allow non-hotel photos in your listing. The best hotel websites?walk

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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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How content accuracy and consistency impacts revenue: A Q&A with Fred Bean

Leonardo

The demand to travel is building, and potential travelers need to trust that the information they’re finding online is up to date with the latest information at their destination. Keeping travel channels up to date has long been a pain point for hoteliers—now more than ever with limited resources and narrower margins.

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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. Online and mobile presence.

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Alternative Accommodations Distribution: Back Office of a Vacation Rental Agency

AltexSoft Travel

In travelers embracing the trend for staycations and workations. In online travel agencies increasing their alternative listings numbers. Typically, you can connect to bed banks either via an extranet (useful for traditional travel agents) or an API. A travel booking engine performs two roles.

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Website Localization in Travel: Key Aspects and Best Practices

AltexSoft Travel

Okay, now that we’re on the same page with the terms and overall vision, let’s explore how to approach the localization of your travel digital platform (here, we assume that you already have one and want to adapt it). Besides, all the link building strategies and SEO efforts of the main domain are applied to all the subdirectories.

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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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