Automation Location Travel Agent 
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. Accommodation. Hotel Content API.
AltexSoft Travel
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
In April of 2016, social media giant, Facebook launched a chatbot service that acts like a virtual assistant allowing businesses to provide automated customer service, deliver content, and come up with an interactive experience to their customers. These chatbots simulate a more human-like experience of talking to a travel agent.
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AltexSoft Travel
APRIL 16, 2021
In short, IATA’s role and range of responsibilities in the travel sector are much broader as it formulates the industry policy and standards. It also provides certification services to travel agencies worldwide, while ARC works solely with agents located in the USA, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and American Samoa.
AltexSoft Travel
JANUARY 19, 2021
A carrier’s operator or authorized travel agent logs into the CRS/GDS to build a PNR file with five mandatory elements (to be discussed later in the section about PNR data). It may appear under different names — a record locator, booking reference, reservation code, or just PNR. Initial PNR generation.
AltexSoft Travel
OCTOBER 24, 2020
Self-service technology has been sporadically implemented at different stages of travel experience, and different locations as well. There are capsule hotels in Japan that are almost entirely staff-free and automated passport control has been implemented in selected airports in Europe and Asia. Special needs travelers.
AltexSoft Travel
NOVEMBER 6, 2020
With the help of the channel manager that we discuss below, it distributes the hotel information to various sales channels, such as GDSs , OTAs , independent travel agents, and its own website, synchronizes reservations, and processes transactions. Besides, thousands of OTAs and travel agents work with the GDS database.
AltexSoft Travel
JULY 14, 2022
Tour operators are travel companies that devise itineraries, create corresponding multi-component tour packages, sell them to travel agents or travelers, and make sure everything goes well from the start to the end of the trip, having full responsibility to the traveler. Tour operators: providing turn-key services.
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