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Booking and Ticketing for Non-IATA Travel Agencies

AltexSoft Travel

While there are a few titans in the consolidator industry, most are smaller players specialized in air tickets for a specific country or are a part a larger organization – you may find consolidators as the hidden force behind a popular B2C online travel agency (OTA) or as the air purchasing agent of a tour operator.

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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. To streamline your relationships with suppliers and automate reservation processes, you can connect your software to travel providers via APIs. Components of tour packages.

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Expedia Partner Solutions for Travel Agencies: Expedia TAAP, Templates, and EPS Rapid API

AltexSoft Travel

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. Expedia Group members.

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OTA Platform: How to Choose a White-Label Solution, and When to Go Custom

AltexSoft Travel

As Phocuswright’s US Online Travel Agency Market Report 2022-2026 shows, OTAs receive only 22 percent of total gross bookings, lagging well behind direct supplier channels (41 percent) and offline agencies (37 percent). The channel share in US travel as of 2022. How booking engines work in online travel agencies.