Travel Daily Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Headed by Tourism Malaysia’s senior deputy director Mohamad Libra Lee Haniff, the roadshow team includes representatives from 35 local organisations, including hotels and resorts, travel agents, tourism product owners, visa consultants, Malaysia-based airlines, and officials from state tourism boards.

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AltexSoft Travel

MAY 26, 2022

Airline ticketing is not as simple as it may seem to passengers. What is an airline ticket? An airline ticket is a document granted by a carrier or travel agency to a passenger as a confirmation that a person has bought a seat on a flight. Airline ticketing process. Airline web pages. The booking flow.

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AltexSoft Travel

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The airline industry is no different. Over the past two decades, the airline industry – like many others – has become increasingly digital. If you’ve read an AltexSoft article on revenue integrity in airlines , you know that ticket manipulations are one of the main sources of revenue leakage.

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AltexSoft Travel

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

“A host travel agency is an accelerator,” — explains the idea Ernesto Sigg Rodríguez, Chief Commercial Officer at Fitbooktravel , that provides technology consulting services for online travel businesses. “As As a travel agent you want to run your business, but you need resources that you can’t afford alone.

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Travel Daily Media

JULY 19, 2024

After a 5-year hiatus, a 41-member delegation of New Zealand’s industry representatives, including airlines, airports, experience curators/ guides, hotels, and tour operators, converged to reconnect with 65 Indian buyers through 1,600 B2B meetings held from July 10th to 12th.

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Travel Daily Media

JANUARY 1, 2024

This renewed eagerness to travel, to live life and experience other places and cultures is definitely long-term,” says Evangeline Tankiang-Manotok, CPA, MPA – PTAA president. Digital platforms have made travel more accessible, convenient and personalized. Philippine Airlines, TIEZA, PLDT, and Taiwan Tourism Bureau.

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Travel Daily Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The post Avian: How a startup is making life better for travel agents all around the world appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. My cofounder Oran Epelbaum, an essential component in Avian, has twice been the CTO of two large cybersecurity companies in Israel. . TD: Are you the only guys doing this?

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AltexSoft Travel

JANUARY 19, 2021

Introduced to facilitate the exchange of booking information between airlines, PNRs have become an important component of the travel industry. The reservation data is transmitted to the airline’s central reservation system (CRS). Most airlines don’t run their own CRS. Why airlines need Super PNRs.

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

A bed bank (also called a wholesaler ) is a B2B company that purchases rooms from accommodation providers in a bulk at a discounted, static price for specific dates and sells them to OTAs, travel agents, airlines, or tour operators. Travel agents can book inventory via a booking website.

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Travel Daily News

MARCH 26, 2023

LANGLEY UK – Travelport , a global technology company that powers travel bookings for hundreds of thousands of travel suppliers worldwide, announced the launch of Smartpoint Cloud on Travelport+. Smartpoint Cloud also makes it easier for agents to service trips and manage exchanges independently.

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 30, 2021

Say, most air travelers to or from the US have to make at least one transfer en route to their final destination. To meet the popular customer requirement “to fly from anywhere to anywhere” and reduce inconveniences associated with multi-leg journeys, airlines have no other alternative but to cooperate with each other.

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Travel Daily Media

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The event is expected to attract more than 1,500 travel trade and MICE professionals from the Mainland, Southeast Asia, India, Japan, South Korea and other markets in the region, and long-haul markets.

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AltexSoft Travel

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A booking happens when you create a reservation on an airline Computer Reservation System (CRS) and get a booking reference number. To issue tickets for IATA airlines, you need official accreditation that grants you access to IATA’s payment processing mechanism, the Billing and Settlement Plan (BSP). Work with an airline consolidator.

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AltexSoft Travel

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

They basically are distributors for hotels, airlines, and tour companies that profit by taking a fee for each sale. Airline and hotel distribution network. These industry players buy hotel rooms in bulk and sell them to OTAs, travel agents, or even airlines. Airlines via NDC connection. Here’s how it works.

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 14, 2022

TripAdmit ), or even a focused, multi-featured tour operator platform (e.g., There are large, well-known companies (like TUI or Jet2holidays ) that even operate their own airlines or hotel chains, so that they not only source inventory from external travel suppliers, but use their own as well. Real-world examples. Technologies.

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AltexSoft Travel

MAY 29, 2023

What is Travel Agency Accreditation? There are many more companies selling travel services than the ones providing them. For example, there are about 5,000 airlines but over 80,000 travel agencies in the US alone. Airline ticketing capability. Why Do You Need It? Credibility and industry recognition. How to apply?

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

IATA or the International Air Transport Association is a global trade association of airlines (both freight and passenger carriers) that regulates the aviation industry by developing standards, procedures, and practices. As of today, its members are 290 airlines in 120 countries comprising around 82 percent of total air traffic.

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AltexSoft Travel

JUNE 21, 2022

For instance, if you sell flights, current seat availability will be stored in the airline’s reservation system , because this airline distributes flights across many resellers and… well, knows which seats are already booked and which are available. hotels or airlines) and reselling this access to distributors.

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AltexSoft Travel

MAY 8, 2020

A booking engine is the brains behind distributing travel products online. Without this software component, you can neither sell nor buy airline tickets or hotel reservations through the Internet. Let’s explore what they actually can do and how their functions and tasks vary across travel businesses. “On

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AltexSoft Travel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

What does self-service mean for travel? To be fair, the idea of self-service travel is nothing new. Back then, self-service used to simply mean “without a travel agent”, and in 2020, with up to 80 percent of travelers booking directly online – it’s a norm. Special needs travelers. Large groups.

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Travel Daily Media

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Attendees this year included senior executives and decision-makers from tour operators, airlines, and loyalty and reward points schemes. In addition to accommodation, Hotelbeds is also the world’s largest B2B seller of travel ancillaries, offering 24,000 transfer routes and 18,000 activities, as well as attractions, tickets and car hire.

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AltexSoft Travel

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

So here are the three main partnership solutions Expedia Group offers: Expedia Travel Agent Affiliate Program aka agent tools. Expedia TAAP: booking tools for travel retail agents. Through Expedia TAAP travel agents can book the following services: 600K+ accomodations. 500+ airlines.

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

A leading global distribution system in North America, Sabre leverages the content from airlines, hotels, car rentals, and other travel suppliers across the world. Short for Semi-Automated Business Research Environment, Sabre was developed back in the 1960s by IBM to help American Airlines handle growing volumes of passengers.

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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. What is a tour operator: definition, types, and challenges. Components of tour packages.

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AltexSoft Travel

MAY 30, 2023

“It’s common for the travel industry when an OTA isn’t a merchant of record and doesn’t process payments itself,” Ivan Mosiev confirms. Instead, it forwards cardholder data to an airline or hotel, which serves as an MoR: It withdraws money from a customer’s card and then pays a commission to the OTA.”

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Open Destinations

JANUARY 31, 2020

As a result, the last decade has brought about huge growth in the travel technology market. This has been reflected in a drastic change in the business operations of tour operators, DMCs and travel agents. To find and maintain success as a travel provider today , being on the cutting edge of technological trends is a must.

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AltexSoft Travel

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

And before you ask if this comparison is even fair, consider how expectations for railway shopping were influenced by the way we purchase airline tickets. Airlines rely on their IT systems, investing in innovations to compete and survive. Airline technology, for example, spawned from one first booking system — Sabre.

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Travel Daily Media

AUGUST 11, 2019

products rolled out to Travelport’s network of customers – through the e-commerce platform, Travelport Marketplace — and will work with the British firm to build new, sales-focused and digital transformation solutions for the industry. Travelport and Inspiravia S.L The new contract will see Inspiravia S.L. Inspiravia S.L.

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 24, 2023

To better understand the protection mechanism, let’s look into one of the possible flows where an online travel agency (OTA) uses a virtual credit card (VCC) to pay the room price to a hotel. Other vendors, from sightseeing tour companies to airlines to cruise lines, are also not big fans of VCCs — and for a reason.

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AltexSoft Travel

JUNE 25, 2022

This quarter [2021], as countries began to open up more from their COVID-19 lockdowns and travel and other leisure activities became more mainstream, fraudsters clearly made this industry a top target.”. The latest estimates by IATA show airlines alone lose a minimum of $1 billion annually because of payment fraud. Chargebacks fraud.

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Travel Daily Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The newly consolidated company is now well-positioned, as the leader in its segment, to provide its 180,000 hotel partners globally with incremental, high-value bookings via the company’s portfolio of over 60,000 travel trade buyers, including retail travel agents, tour operators, airlines and points redemption schemes.

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AltexSoft Travel

AUGUST 18, 2023

In the ever-evolving travel industry landscape, the seamless integration of global accommodation providers is pivotal. OTAs, hotel booking platforms , and other travel businesses need to have real-time access to extensive hotel inventories to offer diverse choices to their customers. APItude hotel APIs Hotel Booking API.

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AltexSoft Travel

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

We’ve touched on the topic of website localization earlier, and in this article, we want to dive deeper into the technicalities of an adaptation process and share our experience of adjusting travel platforms to foreign markets. Airline content. Product attributes are also available, but translations are provided by the airlines.

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AltexSoft Travel

AUGUST 26, 2020

It originated from the airline industry and slowly tried to capture adjacent travel segments. Global distribution systems gather data from multiple sources, create their APIs, and distribute them across travel agents and OTAs. If you are familiar with airline APIs , you may know how big GDSs are in that market.

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Travel Daily Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The new publication will be led by Travel Daily USA’s Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Kulin Strimbu, and supported by Travel Daily Media’s global network in Asia, the UK and Middle East. This new platform will transform Travel Daily Media from an online news provider to a virtual business partner.

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AltexSoft Travel

JUNE 9, 2023

It not only understands user preferences, moods, and behaviors to offer personalized travel recommendations but also assists in complex tasks such as trip planning. Expedia , one of the world’s leading online travel platforms, is a prime example of leveraging ChatGPT’s capabilities for personalization and trip planning.

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AltexSoft Travel

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Source: imgflip BNPL in the travel industry Today, many travel businesses offer the BNPL service to their customers: from major airlines (see the offerings of British Airways , United Airlines , or Delta Airlines ) to travel agencies ( Expedia , Booking.com , or Get Away Today ) to vacation rental companies like Vacasa.

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