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The Advent Of Meeting Automation For Events

Endless Events

Turn your mics on, it’s time to explore meeting automation for events! We live in the golden age of automation. Mainly due to what this means in terms of jobs and employment, but we’re here to talk about the positive side of automation. Meeting automation can do wonders for any business in terms of organization.

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Bed Banks: Comparing Accommodation, Travel Ancillaries, Connectivity of Hotelbeds, Travco, Bonotel, HotelsPro, and WebBeds

AltexSoft Travel

The online booking business is as good as the inventory it has, so finding the best rooms for the best price is the most important task. One of the ways to get a diverse inventory portfolio is to partner with a bed bank. What is a bed bank? Bed banks aggregate inventory from suppliers and resell it to other businesses.

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Hotel Booking APIs: Wholesalers, Channel managers, and GDS

AltexSoft Travel

Connectivity with key bed banks that purchase rooms in bulk. 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? Book hotel rooms. Hotel booking requests are free!

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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. We’ve already described the main distribution channels : GDSs , OTAs , and bed banks. To get a better understanding of how metasearch engines work, let’s first discuss how they make money.

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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. In most cases, tour operators book travel services from external suppliers. You’ll be able to send booking requests and receive confirmations and other status updates through your own system interface.

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Understanding Online Travel Agency Business: Partners, Building Blocks, How to Grow

AltexSoft Travel

Bed banks or wholesalers. Here’s more info on the largest bed banks and how OTAs can work with them. We will cover three mechanisms running in the background of an OTA: its booking and commission engines, and the back office. How a booking engine works. Booking and ticketing flow. Global Distribution Systems (GDS).

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Airline Reservation Systems and Passenger Service Systems: Navitaire, Amadeus Altea, SabreSonic and more

AltexSoft Travel

A modern PSS is a complex structure, combining dozens of tools and applications which automate a wide range of passenger-related activities. The first CRS appeared in the 1960s was SABRE (Semi-Automated Business Research Environment) , which later evolved into one of three major global distribution systems (GDSs). Source: Ryaniar.