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How Hospitality Brands are Using Chatbots

AltexSoft Travel

Chatbots have become one of the most significant trends of today’s eCommerce industry — an AI (artificial intelligence) platform that allows businesses to simulate the behavior of humans within a conversational environment. These chatbots simulate a more human-like experience of talking to a travel agent.

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

AltexSoft Travel

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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Revenue Integrity in Airlines: How to Solve Revenue Leakage Problems

AltexSoft Travel

Often created by travel agents and customers (both accidentally and not), these holes account for about 3 percent of the airline’s revenue. Not always intentionally, but travel agents as well as passengers themselves can cause a bunch of revenue integrity problems for airlines. Sources of airline revenue leakage.

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How to Build a T&E Policy: Best Practices

Hotel Engine

Some automate their T&E policy and track expenses digitally. Inform Your Employees of Where and How to Book Travel Plans. The policy should also include how and where to book travel arrangements. Automate Your Policy for Ease of Use. Hotel Engine lets you build policy limits right into the travel booking process.

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Airline Reporting Corporation: ARC Accreditation Options and Steps to Get It

AltexSoft Travel

Basically, with CTD accreditation, corporations act as travel agents and book directly with GDSs and airlines. They can also outsource the ticketing activities to a third party, i.e., a travel management company. Memo Manager is a tool for automating memo exchange and processing. Memo Analyzer for Agencies dashboard.

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Travelport launches Smartpoint Cloud, delivering an easier, more intuitive retail experience

Travel Daily News

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 enhances exchange capabilities to automate the calculation of accurate exchange costs and reduce errors.

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Booking and Ticketing for Non-IATA Travel Agencies

AltexSoft Travel

For a fee, consolidators will act as ticketing partners for non-IATA agents and issue tickets on their behalf. For most non-IATA travel agents, consolidators are easiest and most effective way to handle ticket issuance. Automated ticketing – more commonly, PNRs are ticketed automatically. Ticketing with a consolidator.

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