AltexSoft Travel

MAY 26, 2022

For a passenger, who buys the flight via a website, it may seem like a single flow since everything goes so smoothly and fast. The first step is the flight search that can happen on different platforms — airline web pages, online travel agencies, or metasearch engines. Instead, they redirect a user to the airline website or OTA.

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AltexSoft Travel

JANUARY 19, 2021

The essential trip data is gathered when an individual passenger or organization books a flight via a travel retailer — carrier’s website, online travel agency (OTA), travel management company (TMC), tour operator, or other channels. Source: Bank Info Security. PNR as a part of the flight booking process.

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AltexSoft Travel

MAY 8, 2020

By customer interfaces we mean a travel provider’s website, mobile application, or chatbot that links with a booking engine via an API layer , enabling consumers to search and book flights, hotel rooms, holiday packages, insurance, and other travel products. B2C booking engines for OTAs and leisure travelers.

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AltexSoft Travel

MAY 29, 2023

IATA accreditation for air travel: IATA vs IATAN vs TIDS International Air Transport Association or IATA is a global trade association of airlines that develops standards and practices for the aviation industry. IATA accreditation exists to verify travel agencies and control the revenue flow, and it’s accepted worldwide. How to apply?

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AltexSoft Travel

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

If you’d like to save time and the headache of making separate agreements with each inventory supplier, here’s a way out – partner with a travel inventory aggregator – be it a global distribution system (GDS), a bed bank, or a big OTA. Your website traffic. Expedia TAAP: booking tools for travel retail agents.

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

This is the information you can act upon – customize offers to meet the exact, known needs of each traveler. Unlike EDIFACT, able to submit only fares and schedules to OTAs, the NDC standard allows for delivering comprehensive flight information to travel agents. Rich content integration. Order management.

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AltexSoft Travel

MARCH 23, 2022

A tour operator is a travel company that devises the trip, books its components, markets it, and sells to travelers or travel agents. GDSs , hotels/lodges/ alternative accommodation , airlines, bed banks , transfer providers/ car rentals , activity suppliers/ destination management companies , and so on.

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AltexSoft Travel

AUGUST 26, 2020

The APIs by key global distribution systems, the main players on the travel distribution market. Connectivity with key bed banks that purchase rooms in bulk. Sourcing inventories of the largest online travel agencies. It originated from the airline industry and slowly tried to capture adjacent travel segments.

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AltexSoft Travel

JANUARY 13, 2022

They aggregate listings from around the web and are commonly used by travelers to compare available options. Connectivity with these players allows AA platforms to reach the end customer and drive bookings to the website. An extranet is a website within your website available to a specific group of users.

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AltexSoft Travel

DECEMBER 10, 2019

No matter the generation, every PSS has customer-facing solutions to communicate with users — be it a website, mobile app, chatbot, or kiosk at the airport. And the first step to this goal is turning websites and mobile apps into intelligent eCommerce platforms. Main PSS modules: three pillars of passenger services. Source: Ryaniar.

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Solimar International

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In addition to her travels, she still found time to sit on the spouse’s club board, as well as get a Certificate in Nonprofit Management and Grant Writing. From the desert, she went to North Carolina where she worked for AAA as a Travel Agent, giving her a different look at tourism sales.

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AltexSoft Travel

JUNE 21, 2022

A short video about what API connectivity in travel is about. Travelers often turn to travel agents instead of airline websites to compare options, get better deals, or book several flights from different airlines in one place. Though today, travel agents turn to them for a wider range of travel products.

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AltexSoft Travel

MAY 30, 2023

Travel business and PCI DSS compliance levels In 2017, the International Air Transportation Association (IATA) officially supported the initiative declaring that their internal electronic system — Billing and Settlement Plan (BSP) — is compliant with PCI DSS. In the meantime, the OTA may keep card information to pay a fare once PNR is ready.

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AltexSoft Travel

OCTOBER 27, 2023

As Phocuswright’s US Online Travel Agency Market Report 2022-2026 shows, OTAs receive only 22 percent of total gross bookings, lagging well behind direct supplier channels (41 percent) and offline agencies (37 percent). The channel share in US travel as of 2022. How booking engines work in online travel agencies. A mobile app.

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AltexSoft Travel

MARCH 24, 2022

Clunky websites have guests email or even call for information, availability updates are often manual, and check-ins and ancillary bookings also often happen only in person. Booking the same hotel on Booking.com vs the hotel’s own website. So, it’s not uncommon for these intermediaries to use a mix of agent and merchant models.

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AltexSoft Travel

JUNE 25, 2022

Due to the specific nature of the industry, the face of scamming in travel wears a lot of masks that often look quite credible to the naked eye. Travel frauds can range from bonus/loyalty abuse to bookings made with stolen credit cards leading to chargebacks to fake online travel websites, etc.

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AltexSoft Travel

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A short and easy BNPL instruction from Priceline So if you as a travel business owner or revenue manager consider adopting BNPL to get a competitive advantage and increase customer reach, here’s what you have to do. Most BNPL lenders also have online portals to handle payments that you receive offline. Integration. Commission structure.

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