AltexSoft Travel

AUGUST 26, 2020

About half of all hotel bookings happens indirectly, meaning that travelers book rooms at Booking.com, Expedia, Orbitz, and other online travel agencies (OTAs). So, where do these bookings come from? It originated from the airline industry and slowly tried to capture adjacent travel segments. Hotel booking.

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AltexSoft Travel

APRIL 16, 2021

We already have a detailed guide on IATA accreditation that is a good explainer of all the main concepts and parties in the travel agency accreditation process. In contrast, there’s also an article about booking and ticketing for non-IATA agencies which describes other ways to sell flights. Airline sales summary 2019, source: ARC.

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AltexSoft Travel

MARCH 23, 2022

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. In most cases, tour operators book travel services from external suppliers.

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Travel Daily Media

JUNE 26, 2023

The post ILTM Asia Pacific 2023 unites the region’s luxury travel industry with four days of meetings + networking appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. It’s wonderful to meet so many proactive and productive agents here at ILTM in Singapore.”

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Travel Daily Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The post Ticket booking opens for World Travel Market London as the show announces exciting changes appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily Media. WTM Connect Me – the show’s meeting booking platform – will return in 2023 and is available for Buyers, VIPs and Media.

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AltexSoft Travel

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The innovation cost American Airlines a whopping $40 million (nearly $348 million in 2019 prices) and took 400 man-years to prepare functional requirements, write program specifications, and complete coding. The DCS interacts with the airline reservation system to confirm and update information on passengers and bookings.

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Hotel Engine

AUGUST 3, 2022

In 2019, companies spent over $111.7 billion on business travel. Of course, the frequency of business travel has ebbed and flowed a bit since 2020 with the uncertainty of the pandemic, but one thing remains the same: Business travel expenses affect the bottom line. That’s where T&E policies come into play.

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 30, 2021

Otherwise, the carrier for this role is typically selected by a travel agent. Steps of interline booking flow. For the most part, the interline booking processes are managed by a Global Distribution System ( GDS ) and a passenger service system ( PSS ) or central reservation system (CRS) of the validating airline.

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Open Destinations

JANUARY 31, 2020

Service providers like Airbnb, Skyscanner, Expedia and Tripadvisor have transformed the travel industry. They, amongst others, have been trailblazers in the shift from traditional booking methods to technology-lead equivalents designed for today’s connected world. . Virtual Reality Booking.

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 20, 2020

This schema contains dozens of XML messages for booking, ancillary services, descriptive information, etc. They describe the interfaces for exchanging data between external and internal booking systems. Again, it describes several scenarios: issuing VCCs, canceling, booking reservations using a VCC (as advanced deposit).

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Travel Daily Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Royal Caribbean International recently announced that Asia’s largest ship, the Quantum of the Seas, will be refreshed and upgraded, before it returns to Singapore between November 2019 and April 2020 for a six-month deployment, marking the cruise line’s longest-ever deployment for a quantum class ship in Singapore.

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Travel Daily Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

In the recent earnings results in the first half of 2019, Meliá PRO saw sales improve by 26.8% with 45,200 travel agencies signed up. Book your events in 374 hotels in 40 countries on 4 continents under the brands Meliá, Gran Meliá, ME by Meliá, Paradisus, Innside by Meliá, TRYP by Wyndham, Sol Hotels and Club Meliá.

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Motivation Excellence

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Academic research studying the benefits of incentive travel programs dates to the 1970s. The sector is supported by a wide variety of professionals, from corporate travel agents to employee performance consultants to sales verification software companies. According to the 2019 Incentive Travel Industry Index , 84 percent of U.S.

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AltexSoft Travel

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The simplicity of the launch attracts even non-travel players: Over the past two years , a number of financial companies, retailers, and loyal clubs have presented their branded booking platforms. Plug-and-play platforms have many hidden limitations, preventing you from standing out in a saturated travel market.

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AltexSoft Travel

JUNE 25, 2022

In 2019, the travel and hospitality industry accounted for a whopping 10.3 This brings convenience as customers can easily search for holiday destinations, book accommodations, and make payments online. percent between 2019 and 2021 with travel and leisure being one of the industries that suffer from scamming the most.

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Convene by PCMA

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

How DMOs Have Evolved The only competition DMOs had when she began her career “was a travel agent, which was a commissionable purchase,” Ratcliffe said. “We Receiving those awards “are some real highlights for me,” she said. There is so much more about the industry that you really only learn when you expand your network.

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AltexSoft Travel

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Without changing its business model and broadening distribution channels, Thomas Cook was destined to be overthrown by Booking Holdings and Expedia. This calls for quite intricate approaches to marketing, distribution, and travel products themselves. So, new travel agencies have to work hard to break through the wall of mistrust.

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