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Looking Back on a Remarkable, 42-Year Career in Tourism

Convene by PCMA

EPNAC photo) Kitty Ratcliffe started out working in retail but it wasn’t long before she found her true calling. Aside from working as the director of marketing for a 740-room convention hotel in downtown Denver for a year and a half, Ratclliffe has spent her entire career working in leadership roles at DMOs.

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Hotelbeds’ MarketHub Asia is heading to Phuket for 2020

Travel Daily Media

The 2nd edition of MarketHub Asia is an invitation-only, three-day event taking place from Tuesday 22 to Friday 25 October in Bali, with around 300 of Hotelbeds’ most important partners from all the key source markets of Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.

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Cultivating Collaborations with DMCs to Drive International Luxury Travel

DCI

Tourism boards are learning new lessons left and right, but a big one to put at the top of the list involves the international travel trade and, more specifically, converting business from the international luxury travel market. Most travel advisors, unfortunately, can’t handle these customized bookings on their own.

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Travel Agency Accreditation, Explained: IATA, IATAN, ARC, CLIA, and TRUE

AltexSoft Travel

If you’re a smaller business, you can join a hosting agency – a big, thriving business with a strong market presence and customer base. Many starting travel agencies or individual agents join a host agency for access to booking capabilities. You don’t always need to obtain the accreditation yourself. How to apply? Who is it for?

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Tour Operator Software: Itinerary Creator, Booking Engine, and Other Handy Technologies

AltexSoft Travel

Before diving in, watch how tours and attractions market works. A tour operator is a travel company that devises the trip, books its components, markets it, and sells to travelers or travel agents. What is a tour operator: definition, types, and challenges. Booking engine for tour operators.

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ASTA International Destination Expo 2013 to be held in Dubai

Travel Daily Media

Dubai’s Department of Touri sm and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) has further expanded its promotion of Dubai’s tourism assets through a partnership with the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA). ASTA estimates attendance in Dubai next year will be between 500 and 700 travel agents.

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Experiential Travel Explained: Players, Distribution Landscape, and Opportunities

AltexSoft Travel

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. Tour operators: providing turn-key services.

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