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Maximizing Your Vacation: The Many Hats of a Travel Agent

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

AltexSoft Travel

It supervises travel businesses by suggesting standards. For instance, IATA codes are used everywhere where traveling and aviation intersect. IATA-certified agents must commit to an industry ethical codes and meet the general industry procedure standards. Read through the Travel Agent Handbook. Credibility.

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

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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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Airline Reporting Corporation: ARC Accreditation Options and Steps to Get It

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Documents — you’ll have to provide entity papers, an Employer ID Number, and any licenses for local jurisdictions. For more details, check the Industry Agents’ Handbook (IAH) that contains all the industry-related instructions and rules and will assist you in your daily operations. It usually takes about 10 days.

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Timatic by IATA: Travel Requirements Database, Explained

AltexSoft Travel

Different types of tests and non-standard test documents put a burden on check-in agents who need to manually determine if travelers can pass. The next step is vaccine passports – documents certifying one’s vaccination status. Timatic or Travel Information Manual Automatic is a database of travel requirement rules.

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Revenue Integrity in Airlines: How to Solve Revenue Leakage Problems

AltexSoft Travel

Often created by travel agents and customers (both accidentally and not), these holes account for about 3 percent of the airline’s revenue. Not always intentionally, but travel agents as well as passengers themselves can cause a bunch of revenue integrity problems for airlines. Uncover problematic travel agency behavior.

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What is PNR: Passenger Name Record Explained in Details

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It takes a close look at its content, touches on some privacy concerns, and peeks into the future of travel records. A passenger name record, also called a booking file, is a digital document with details of the itinerary for a passenger or a group of passengers traveling together. PNR meaning and lifecycle.