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Destination Management Companies: How Travel Agencies Can Tap Into DMC Potential

AltexSoft Travel

The travel service market operates on a large scale. Online and offline travel agencies provide a wide selection of services to a wide range of audiences, so they rarely have control over the resources at the immediate destination. Today DMCs function as a single point of contact for their B2B and B2C clients.

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Travel Booking Engines: Types, Functionality, and Integrations

AltexSoft Travel

A booking engine is the brains behind distributing travel products online. Let’s explore what they actually can do and how their functions and tasks vary across travel businesses. It allows a customer to combine different travel products — flights, rooms, car rentals, attractions — within the same booking flow.

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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

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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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

White-label solutions make building an online travel agency or OTA extremely easy and fast. The simplicity of the launch attracts even non-travel players: Over the past two years , a number of financial companies, retailers, and loyal clubs have presented their branded booking platforms. Or watch our video explainer.