AltexSoft Travel

JULY 30, 2020

Often created by travel agents and customers (both accidentally and not), these holes account for about 3 percent of the airline’s revenue. In this article, we explain when revenue leakage happens in airlines and how revenue managers can mend these holes. Let’s see at what stages of the flight booking process leakages appear.

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The online booking business is as good as the inventory it has, so finding the best rooms for the best price is the most important task. Wholesalers connect with suppliers’ Property Management Systems to send updates on who and when will occupy these rooms: A guest John Smith will occupy X room from A till B date. Hotel Booking API.

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Travel Daily Media

JUNE 24, 2024

Representative Image Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) is preparing for its biggest ever Cruise360 Australasia conference on August 30, with record numbers of travel agents and cruise leaders expected to converge in Sydney for the industry’s most important gathering of the year.

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AltexSoft Travel

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Large or small, every flight booking business must have two key processes in place: booking and ticketing. To consumers, booking a flight and receiving an e-ticket may seem like a single, seamless step, but for the business providing the service they’re actually two distinct and equally important steps.

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Travel Daily Media

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The post Shifting shape of corporate travel: Sabre appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Four-fifths of respondents have adopted new technological solutions to manage Covid-19 related risk over the past two years. Corporate travellers place high priority on information, flexibility, and hygiene.

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AltexSoft Travel

MAY 21, 2020

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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AltexSoft Travel

OCTOBER 9, 2019

GDS is one of the first abbreviations you learn in the travel business. Global Distribution Systems are responsible for providing booking websites with unified access to a massive inventory of flights, hotel rooms, car rental companies, cruises, and much more. What is a GDS? How to Connect to GDSs Step-by-Step.

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Travel Daily Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The post Avian: How a startup is making life better for travel agents all around the world appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. MH: Looking forward we can see how complex the booking experience is going to become. TD: Are you the only guys doing this? TD: What does the future hold for Avian?

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AltexSoft Travel

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

“A host travel agency is an accelerator,” — explains the idea Ernesto Sigg Rodríguez, Chief Commercial Officer at Fitbooktravel , that provides technology consulting services for online travel businesses. “As As a travel agent you want to run your business, but you need resources that you can’t afford alone.

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AltexSoft Travel

APRIL 16, 2021

We already have a detailed guide on IATA accreditation that is a good explainer of all the main concepts and parties in the travel agency accreditation process. In contrast, there’s also an article about booking and ticketing for non-IATA agencies which describes other ways to sell flights. The flight booking algorithm explained.

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AltexSoft Travel

MARCH 13, 2020

Flight consolidators are brokers that book airline seats in bulk at discount rates and then resell them to travel agencies. Consolidators pass on net fares to travel agencies, charging a premium on top of each seat. In any case, travel agents get a good margin to earn money. Booking engines out of the box.

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AltexSoft Travel

MAY 8, 2020

A booking engine is the brains behind distributing travel products online. Trip-related companies employ different types of booking engines to run core processes instead of human personnel. Let’s explore what they actually can do and how their functions and tasks vary across travel businesses. Travel content mapping.

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

However, it currently covers a wide range of hotel services such as bookings, customer service inquiries, pre or post-stay inquiries, and general travel advice. The best chatbots allow customers to research and book travels using different messaging apps such as Facebook Messenger, Google Assistant, Slack, WeChat, and so much more.

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Travelers still stick to comprehensive booking platforms like OTAs and price aggregators. Until the 2000s, airlines managed to maintain direct relations with travel agencies via Computer Reservation Systems (CRSs). Business travelers spend more and book flights right before the departure. Order management.

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AltexSoft Travel

JUNE 21, 2022

Travel agencies serve as intermediaries between travel products suppliers who want to expand their customer reach and travelers who want to see what their options are and book a number of travel services from one convenient interface. Travel agency inventory basics. How and where OTAs source inventory.

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Convene by PCMA

JULY 15, 2024

What do you do when some of your event attendees want to book more than one room in the event hotel block to give their family and even extended family a vacation? Anyone experiencing a group of attendees who book more than one guest room per registration (such as three additional guest rooms for a total of four rooms per one registration)?

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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. In most cases, tour operators book travel services from external suppliers. Booking engine and payments processing. Components of tour packages.

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Travel Daily Media

MARCH 20, 2018

The post Bye bye group bookings? Marriott cuts strategic meetings and corporate travel commissions in North America appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Both he and the Travel Agent Central letter also cited Meetings Excellence! ,

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AltexSoft Travel

JANUARY 19, 2021

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.

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AltexSoft Travel

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Data sharing, which is the holy grail of travel distribution, is only possible when all systems operate similarly and use the same business logic, data format, and data exchange technologies. Airline technology, for example, spawned from one first booking system — Sabre. Indirect sales come from: Traditional travel agencies.

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 14, 2022

Immersive travel implies, well, immersing in the foreign culture which in most cases means mingling with the community at the place of destination, engaging in traditional activities, attending local events and so on. Meanwhile, adventure travel is more about physical activities. TripCreator ), a channel manager (e.g.,

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

At the time of global digitalization, 75 percent of all hotel bookings are made online. That clearly shows the vital importance of connection to various online booking channels for a hotel to thrive and attract more customers. Everything changes over the years, including hotel booking.

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AltexSoft Travel

MAY 26, 2022

It serves as a travel document, ensuring that an airline will provide a seat and services included in the fare for a ticket owner. On the other hand, carriers use a document as a source of information about the passenger and the booking. It manages relationships between multiple airlines involved in one journey (if this is the case).

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Booking.com offers solutions for: OTAs and destination websites, hotel channel managers, property owners, affiliates like travel bloggers and media outlets. Using this API, you can integrate Booking.com data into your website and earn commissions for every booking. Demand API for booking websites. Hotel Booking Systems.

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Hotel Engine

AUGUST 3, 2022

T&E policies are an essential factor in the expense management process. For example, don’t allow senior management level executives to fly first class and insist that all other employees fly coach. Besides CFOs and travel coordinators , this committee can include members from departments, such as: Accounting. Keep it Fair.

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Travel Daily Media

MAY 4, 2023

IF ONLY will provide an array of marketing material to enable agents to engage their customers, from a mini brochure, email marketing and branded collateral for direct distribution, to a host of social media offers and much more.

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DCI

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Destinations want the travel trade – from tour operators to travel advisors – to keep them top of mind when booking for clients, but standing out is a constant challenge. When it comes to connecting with the travel trade, knowing who to connect with is paramount to overcoming that very challenge. Eric Bowman. Matt Turner.

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AltexSoft Travel

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

There are different ways for hotels and OTAs to connect: via Extranet, a Channel Manager software , or API connecting with hotels’ Central Reservation Systems. These industry players buy hotel rooms in bulk and sell them to OTAs, travel agents, or even airlines. How a booking engine works. Booking and ticketing flow.

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Travel Daily Media

JULY 6, 2023

The post FCM reveals how it’s supercharging client servicing through a human-centred approach to generative AI appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Clarifying and routing travel requests by determining if it should push the user to OBT, Travel Arranger or Travel Agent.

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AltexSoft Travel

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The same goes for ticket booking. With more reliable booking systems and superior data analytics, airlines have managed to make their service more personalized. By the end of next year, online booking is expected to account for more than half of all ticket bookings. Fake Travel Agencies. POS Machines.

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Travel Daily News

MARCH 26, 2023

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 makes it easier for agents to service trips and manage exchanges independently.

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AltexSoft Travel

DECEMBER 10, 2019

As late as last summer British Airways canceled more than 100 of their flights and delayed another 200 because of IT outages that involved two components of their passenger service software — one that was responsible for online check-in and the other that managed flight departure. Revenue management system. Airline inventory system.

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Leonardo

MAY 13, 2021

We partnered with HotelPORT to change how the hospitality industry solves those content management and distribution challenges. What it comes down to is the importance of centralizing information for improved distribution across an increasingly decentralized and siloed booking landscape. We start out with a virtual site inspection.

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Travel Daily Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

The post Manage MICE with ease: 5 Reasons why you should enrol in Meliá PRO appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Five years ago, Meliá Hotels International debuted its B2B and MICE channel that provides Travel industry Professionals with the company’s best available rates guaranteed. Meliá PRO Agents.

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AltexSoft Travel

MAY 29, 2023

Many starting travel agencies or individual agents join a host agency for access to booking capabilities. Independent agents and agencies. For example, they want direct access to suppliers but still want a host agency to manage ticketing for them. Corporate Travel Departments. But not all want to do this.

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Travel Daily Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Offers from leading tour operators for packages, hotels and flights can be quickly and conveniently searched and then easily transferred to one of the leading booking systems. This way, travel agents are prepared in advance prior to every customer consultation to drive success.

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Open Destinations

JUNE 19, 2019

Any reputable reservation system should enable the tour operator, travel agent or Destination Management Company using it to set up end-to-end automation through the booking process. By serving up results more quickly, booking conversion is boosted. More booking = more revenues = growth. AUTOMATION.

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