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

Leonardo

The fact is, online travel agents are often doing a better job at clearly listing a hotel’s, or a room’s, amenities than the hotel is itself. Marketing fluff that describes a room is great but travelers—and frankly channels as well—need a clear, SEO-driven list.

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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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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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Alternative Accommodations Distribution: Back Office of a Vacation Rental Agency

AltexSoft Travel

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. And it’s also an intermediary between travelers and providers because it transforms people’s search queries into requests for supplier inventories.

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Marketing for Travel Agencies: Understanding and Surviving in the Online Travel Industry

AltexSoft Travel

So, for travel agencies, it’s quite difficult to stay afloat, unless they find some specific niche. They would rather follow the word of mouth or go to their old, time-tested local travel agent or stick to larger players. So, new travel agencies have to work hard to break through the wall of mistrust. Invest in SEO.

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