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5 Reasons Why Every Hotel Should Have Its Own Website

Leonardo

You need to include key information travelers are looking for (such as your location, contact information, and a link to your booking engine), but contemporary websites should be an engaging and dynamic experience. . walk their own path while still following SEO and user experience best practices. Stronger SEO Capabilities.

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

AltexSoft Travel

These industry players buy hotel rooms in bulk and sell them to OTAs, travel agents, or even airlines. These computer networks dominate the travel distribution and store inventories, schedules, and fares for all types of services: from hotels to ferries. Online Travel Agency building blocks and technology.

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