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Managing an Online Travel Agency: How Back Office System of an OTA Works

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How Back Office at an OTA Works. Sending a booking request to supplier Once a user confirms a booking and pays via an integrated payment gateway the booking request is sent to a provider (GDS, hotel, airline, etc.). The provider must issue a ticket (in case of airlines) or send a booking confirmation (hotels).

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Coveros Conversations: Strategic Learning Plans

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Jeff Payne: Hey Mike, how you doing? So, let’s start with some level setting let’s talk about learning and development in the context of this crazy new environment that many of us are working in as leaders, what do you see as the key challenges for those of us in leadership positions regarding growing and retaining talent.

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Travel Agency Software: Choosing Tools for Booking, Accounting, Marketing, and Tour Building

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In this article, we’ll talk about how traditional travel agencies can use technology to improve operations, automate, and customize their processes today. For many travel agents, their work is not synonymous with adventure and exploration. It works with more than 160 currencies and can be integrated with third-party tourism apps.

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Airline Flight Booking APIs: GDSs, Specialized Data Providers, OTAs and Metasearch Engines

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IATA’s recent passenger survey reports reveal interesting data about traveler’s preferences: international travel accounts for 64 percent of all airline traffic with Asia-Pacific, African, Latin American and Middle Eastern regions experience rise in demand. How does airline distribution work? Amadeus APIs.

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Understanding Online Travel Agency Business: Partners, Building Blocks, How to Grow

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Since their appearance in the 90s, they flipped travel distribution, became hotels’ biggest enemies , and changed how people research, plan, and buy their trips. Having worked with numerous travel businesses , we can tell that we know a thing or two about building and growing a successful online travel agency. How OTAs work.

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Direct Hotel Booking APIs: How Katanox, Impala, and HyperGuest Reinvent the Industry

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Travel distribution is complicated. We know it – we’ve created almost 200 articles, infographics, and videos, exploring and explaining different aspects of it. In recent years, a few startups have sprung up to disrupt hotel distribution. But first, let’s talk about how and why the problem appeared in the first place.

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