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Maximizing Your Vacation: The Many Hats of a Travel Agent

Traveler's Q

This is where the role of a travel agent comes in handy. A professional travel agent is specialized in creating customized itineraries for clients, meeting their specific travel needs. A travel agent is a professional who can provide efficient and customized travel planning for a nominal price.

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How A Destination Management Company Will Help Your Corporate Event

Traveler's Q

When managing guests in a new, foreign location, it is important to have a well-planned strategy in place. Their expertise in managing guests in a foreign location ensures that your guests have a smooth and stress-free experience. In this article, we will explore the benefits of utilizing a DMC to manage guests in a foreign location.

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Navigating Cultural Differences: Effective Strategies for Managing Guests in a Foreign Destination

Traveler's Q

When managing guests in a foreign location, it is important to have a well-planned strategy in place. Their expertise in managing guests in a foreign location ensures that your guests have a smooth and stress-free experience, allowing them to focus on enjoying the destination and all it has to offer.

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Hotel Booking APIs: Wholesalers, Channel managers, and GDS

AltexSoft Travel

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? It originated from the airline industry and slowly tried to capture adjacent travel segments. Hotel booking.

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CDC Will Allow Cruise Travel to Resume This Summer   

Smart Meetings

The Athens port is a popular restart location, as the country announced mid-April it would begin reopening to citizens from five countries (including the U.S.) The collective push by the travel industry that the CDC release the sails is no wonder, as prebooking for cruise travel is booming for late 2021 and beyond.

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

AltexSoft Travel

Things are quite confusing here and nascent travel agents can easily get overwhelmed with understanding what’s IATA, how IATAN is different, why ARC number is the same as IATAN number… And a whole lot of other questions. Sounds complicated, but in plain English, BSP is a payment mediator between airlines and travel agents.

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What is PNR: Passenger Name Record Explained in Details

AltexSoft Travel

It happens every time travelers book a flight. Introduced to facilitate the exchange of booking information between airlines, PNRs have become an important component of the travel industry. They act as booking confirmation, a repository of valuable commercial information, and even a weapon against global terrorism.