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5 Reasons Why Every Hotel Should Have Its Own Website

Leonardo

Most leisure travelers make their final decision on a hotel by visiting its website. Hotels that are part of a larger brand may not have a website to call their own but rather only have a page extension on their brand’s site. Solidify your digital identity with a fresh website. . The best hotel websites?walk

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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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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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Website Localization in Travel: Key Aspects and Best Practices

AltexSoft Travel

And not only does it adapt the menus, but also advertising campaigns, website pages, and entire business plans to attract local foodies. If you operate a travel business, you most likely deal with multinational customers, and it’s crucial for you to localize your content and services and make them more understandable. And it works.

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Alternative Accommodations Distribution: Back Office of a Vacation Rental Agency

AltexSoft Travel

They aggregate listings from around the web and are commonly used by travelers to compare available options. Connectivity with these players allows AA platforms to reach the end customer and drive bookings to the website. An extranet is a website within your website available to a specific group of users.

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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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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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