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Dynamic Pricing Explained: Use in Revenue Management and Pricing Optimization

Altexsoft

How would you price tickets not only to cover expenses for each route but also to achieve a certain level of revenue to be able to grow and develop your business? Would you consider fixed costs, competitor prices, or both? Two biggest tasks businesses have to address in this regard are revenue management and price optimization. Pricing automation.

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

Altexsoft

White-label solutions make building an online travel agency or OTA extremely easy and fast. You can establish your presence on the web in no time — and with minimal upfront cost. Plug-and-play platforms have many hidden limitations, preventing you from standing out in a saturated travel market. The channel share in US travel as of 2022.

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Friction

LeanEssays

Let’s consider the friction involved in taking a taxi from an airport to a hotel. I also bring enough local currency to pay for a taxi ride to my hotel and check on whether a tip is expected. One third of the fuel that goes into a car is spent overcoming friction. Who knew electric cars had such an advantage? That’s cognitive load.

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Conversational AI: How Advanced Chatbots Work

Altexsoft

Instead of getting out of bed and switching off the lights manually, you can open an Alexa app on your phone and give a voice command like, “Alexa, bedroom lights off.”. In the modern world, there’s hardly a business that doesn’t need a communication channel with its customers. Here’s the catch though.

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Travel Booking Engines: Types, Functionality, and Integrations

Altexsoft

Without this software component, you can neither sell nor buy airline tickets or hotel reservations through the Internet. The key systems on the suppliers’ side are: Global Distribution Systems ( GDSs ), bed banks , airline consolidator databases, hotel property management systems ( PMSs ), and. How a travel booking engine works.

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Technical Feasibility in Software Engineering: Things to Consider Before Development Starts

Altexsoft

In 2021, to the great disappointment of space exploration fans, NASA postponed a long-awaited return to the Moon by at least a year. The authorities admitted that the previous 2024 deadline for human landing “ was not grounded on technical feasibility.”. Tech miscalculations are not unique to ambitious, state-backed space endeavors.

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Lean Startup: Build Iteratively Using Feedback Loop and Lean Canvas

Altexsoft

So how can entrepreneurs sleep soundly knowing they’re building the right thing that won’t wind up on the shelf? It will take a while and won’t necessarily pay off. Delayed decisions: put it off until you have enough data to draw an informed conclusion. There’s no universal management paradigm for freshly minted companies.