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Poaching: How You Can Prevent It

Smart Meetings

Misrepresentation : Poachers misrepresent themselves to sell bookings outside of the official hotel block. Unauthorized access, use and selling of data : A poacher may obtain attendee information by unauthorized use of a website or database, or they may purchase data from an unauthorized seller. What You Can Do. Limit Access.

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Metasearch in Hospitality: an Overview of Hotel Search Engines

AltexSoft Travel

Listing your property in metasearch websites and investing in a marketing campaign can help increase visibility and attract more direct bookings. In the hospitality industry, it means that the hotels’ inventory, rates, and availability are pulled from their own websites and/or OTAs they work with and displayed in one place.

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How to set up + optimise your ATDW Online Listing

Tourism eSchool

Once published, your listing will then appear on relevant distributor website(s) who use the ATDW’s listing to populate their tourism experiences on their website. It can increase visitors to your tourism website. Tourism Australia’s Consumer Website australia.com. Destination Websites. Some Council websites.

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Airline Marketing and Advertising Use Cases from American Airlines, Ryanair, Air France, and Others

AltexSoft Travel

Just a couple of examples: electronic tickets were first developed for fare ticketing, while one of the first online booking systems was built by airline distribution company SABRE. But, it does a big difference on how airlines sell their flights: via a direct channel (reservation on *airline* website/app), or via a distributor.

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Defining Value Stream Mapping for Travel Business Owners

AltexSoft Travel

The term itself was coined in the 1990’s book by James Womack and Daniel Jones The Machine that Changed the World. In 2014’s book Value Stream Mapping by Karen Martin and Mike Osterling, value stream got the attention it deserved. This is the book we recommend you buy if you want an in-depth view of the subject.

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Flight Price Predictor: Training Models to Pinpoint the Best Time for Booking

AltexSoft Travel

When developing a price predictor feature for FareBoom , AltexSoft tapped into millions of queries made by the website visitors. The popular method to obtain flight data from competitors is web scraping: A computer program gathers fare information from metasearch platforms, airline websites, and other online travel services.

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27 years of peer conferences

Conferences that Work

At the time, I had no idea that what I instinctively put together for a gathering of people who barely knew each other would lead to: a global design and facilitation consulting practice; over 500 posts on this blog, which has now become, to the best of my knowledge, the most-visited website on meeting design and facilitation; three books (almost!)