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Travelport launches Smartpoint Cloud, delivering an easier, more intuitive retail experience

Travel Daily News

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+. Like any good tech innovation, these tools are simple to use and tackle key challenges faced by the travel advisor community.

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

AltexSoft Travel

So, let’s talk about what to look for and how technology can help you with both your tasks at hand and strategic purposes. A tour operator is a travel company that devises the trip, books its components, markets it, and sells to travelers or travel agents. Tour operator technology solutions.

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

AltexSoft Travel

Now we’re talking about the ways to make travel contactless , or – if using more traditional language – self-service. Self-service technology has been sporadically implemented at different stages of travel experience, and different locations as well. Special needs travelers. Travelers with complex itineraries.

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Host Travel Agencies: Why You Need Them and How to Choose the Best Option

AltexSoft Travel

Roughly, hosts act as middlemen between the network of travel retailers, often with no experience, and travel suppliers. “A 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

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Connecting Flights: Virtual Interlining Benefits and How to Seize Them

AltexSoft Travel

This article explains the complexities of old approaches and navigates through modern technologies addressing challenges of legacy agreements. Otherwise, the carrier for this role is typically selected by a travel agent. The choice may depend on the commissions a carrier pays to a retailer. Technological obstacles.

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Hotelbeds’ MarketHub Asia is heading to Phuket for 2020

Travel Daily Media

Keynote speeches from representatives from Skift, Phocuswright and Web in Travel and panel sessions focused on the event’s ‘SHIFTING FUTURES’ theme, exploring how the travel sector should react to changes and shifts in the industry in terms of key topics such as technology, the complexity of distribution, shifting consumer trends, payments and data.

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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. How DMOs Have Evolved The only competition DMOs had when she began her career “was a travel agent, which was a commissionable purchase,” Ratcliffe said. “We That is, obviously, no longer the case.

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