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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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Airline Reporting Corporation and IATA Billing and Settlement Plan: How they Work

AltexSoft Travel

In this case, you as an agent sell tickets to travelers and get money to your merchant account and then pay to airlines via a BSP or ARC clearing bank. The agent makes remittance payment according to a calendar to the clearing bank (usually, once a week). And finally, the bank distributes money across airlines.

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Hotelbeds API Integration: Hands-on Experience with a Leading Bed Bank

AltexSoft Travel

OTAs, hotel booking platforms , and other travel businesses need to have real-time access to extensive hotel inventories to offer diverse choices to their customers. Alternative methods like website bookings, widgets, and white-label solutions are available for those not looking for direct API integration. Booking API methods.

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How to Get IATA Accreditation for Travel Business: Options and Steps to Take

AltexSoft Travel

This is the main advantage that eliminates the need for other middlemen, simplifies the booking processes, and cuts expenses for both agents and airlines. This significantly simplifies booking, confirmation, and payment processing procedures and eliminates extra efforts for both sides. Industry recognition. Access to financial control.

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Flight Credits: What You Need to Know Before Cashing In

Business Traveler USA

Airlines typically offer travel credits in lieu of cash refunds when customers either cancel travel on already-purchased tickets or change flights and the new itinerary is of lesser value than the originally booked ticket. Only the passenger named on the Flight Credit can book and travel. 1, 2020 and Dec. Southwest Airlines.

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Destination spotlight Bern, Switzerland: Site visit from 28–30 August 2020 for Event Planners Talk e-conference

The MICE Blog

The hotel has a ‘Clean & Safe Label’ certification. This certification is an initiative of Swiss Tourism, which has issued particular standard guidelines that need to be fulfilled in order to obtain this endorsement. Not only with the meeting rooms but also the guest room bookings. Another trend is shorter leading times.

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How Event Professionals Can Think Like Futurists

Convene by PCMA

The late Alvin Toffler, whose 1970 book Future Shock established him as one of the world’s foremost futurists, said we can only envision our future by tapping into our human capacity for creativity. 2008 rolls around, the Great Recession, and lo and behold, there was a banking crisis. Guess what? Earn CMP Credits.

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