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No Excuses: Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle While Traveling for Business or Pleasure

Traveler's Q

In this article, we will share practical tips and advice for how to stay healthy while traveling, so you can make the most out of your experiences without sacrificing your well-being. Whether you are planning a vacation with a travel agent or taking a solo adventure, these tips will help you prioritize your health.

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Creative Problem-Solving and Innovation: The Life of an Event Project Manager

Maritz Global Events

Despite a background as a travel agent and some hotel management courses in college,” he said, “I’d never thought about event management until I saw an ad promoting the travel, experience and interaction of the events industry, and I thought, ‘Wow, that’s a perfect fit!’”. Fortunately, I love talking with everyone,” he says.

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

AltexSoft Travel

A tour operator is a travel company that devises the trip, books its components, markets it, and sells to travelers or travel agents. Basically, combining travel services in a bundle and developing a complete tour is the most important part of a tour operator’s job and that’s what distinguishes it from travel agents.

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

AltexSoft Travel

What does self-service mean for 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. Large groups.

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OTA Platform: How to Choose a White-Label Solution, and When to Go Custom

AltexSoft Travel

As Phocuswright’s US Online Travel Agency Market Report 2022-2026 shows, OTAs receive only 22 percent of total gross bookings, lagging well behind direct supplier channels (41 percent) and offline agencies (37 percent). The channel share in US travel as of 2022. proposed to smaller OTAs, suppliers, and other companies.

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Hotel Booking APIs: Wholesalers, Channel managers, and GDS

AltexSoft Travel

The APIs by key global distribution systems, the main players on the travel distribution market. Connectivity with direct software vendors of hotels. Sourcing inventories of the largest online travel agencies. It originated from the airline industry and slowly tried to capture adjacent travel segments. Wholesale APIs.

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