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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 Hospitality Brands are Using Chatbots

AltexSoft Travel

Chatbot growth can be seen in the online industry and just this year, Google said there’s about 1 billion Google Assistant being used in the market today. These chatbots simulate a more human-like experience of talking to a travel agent. In fact, more than half of consumers prefer businesses that use chat apps.

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19 Event Trends That Will Shake Up Meetings & Group Business in 2019

Social Tables

In other words, planners are not just meeting coordinators, they are now ad-hoc travel agents. Cultural interactions, local dining, experiential travel, and team-building activities are all in the mix. At the proposal level, venues can personalize by showcasing different event-specific variations. Key Takeaway for Venues.

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Self-Service Technologies in Travel: End-to-End Solutions for Independent Travelers

AltexSoft Travel

To be fair, the idea of self-service travel is nothing new. Back then, self-service used to simply mean “without a travel agent”, and in 2020, with up to 80 percent of travelers booking directly online – it’s a norm. Special needs travelers. Travelers with complex itineraries. Large groups.

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

AltexSoft Travel

For the record, the business developed into a global company operating its airline and dealing with multi-million revenue streams, went through a compulsory liquidation in 2019, and was relaunched as an online-only travel agency in 2020. What is a tour operator: definition, types, and challenges. Components of tour packages.

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Connecting Flights: Virtual Interlining Benefits and How to Seize Them

AltexSoft Travel

Otherwise, the carrier for this role is typically selected by a travel agent. On a passenger’s or travel agent’s request, the GDS or PSS builds an itinerary. The MITA per se doesn’t support the distribution of ancillaries such as excess baggage or online food. Steps of interline booking flow.

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Travelport’s new partnerships puts event organisers and TA’s in control

Travel Daily Media

provides valuable sales tools for travel professionals at every level.”. Yvonne Valies – Travelport’s partner relations manager in Europe, added: “Travelport is delighted to introduce this unique sales proposal and digital travel itinerary, called Viewtravel plug-in, into the Travelport GDS. Inspiravia S.L.