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

Altexsoft

Often, the tour operator functions as a wholesaler, buying tickets, hotel rooms, and other travel products in bulk at discounted rates, combining them, and selling those packages in significant quantities directly or indirectly. Besides, a tour operator can own some of the package components, for example, run an airline or hotel.

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Central Reservation System for Hotels: CRS Functionality and Software Explained

Altexsoft

Today, the share of walk-ins in the hotel industry keeps reducing annually. At the time of global digitalization, 75 percent of all hotel bookings are made online. Among that, 40 percent of the reservations are made via Booking.com, 32 percent — via other aggregators, and 21 percent — through a hotel’s website.

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Business Intelligence tools & use cases

Apiumhub

With more and more data available, it’s getting more difficult to focus on the information we really need and present it in an actionable way and that’s what business intelligence is all about. In this article we will talk about Business Intelligence tools, benefits & use cases. . What is Business Intelligence.

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The Good and the Bad of the Elasticsearch Search and Analytics Engine

Altexsoft

This is particularly useful in large-scale applications, like searching through a worldwide database of hotels or customer reviews. For instance, you could have different indices for Hotels, Guests, and Bookings in the hospitality industry. Having replica shards ensures your data is not lost if a node fails.

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Data Collection for Machine Learning: Steps, Methods, and Best Practices

Altexsoft

Data collection is a methodical practice aimed at acquiring meaningful information to build a consistent and complete dataset for a specific business purpose — such as decision-making, answering research questions, or strategic planning. Structured data is modeled to be easily searchable and occupy minimal storage space.

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Bed Banks: Comparing Accommodation, Travel Ancillaries, Connectivity of Hotelbeds, Travco, Bonotel, HotelsPro, and WebBeds

Altexsoft

The wholesaler’s portfolio includes from over 170,000 to over 180,000 hotels (numbers from official sources differ) in 185 destination countries. The properties cover all accommodation types, so Hotelbeds partners can deliver to various market segments: Hotels. Boutique hotels. Hotel Booking API. Hotel Content API.

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Structured vs Unstructured Data: Compared and Explained

Altexsoft

Unstructured data, on the other hand, offers more flexibility and scalability. Such databases can process huge volumes of data and deal with high user loads as they are quite flexible and scalable. Azure Cosmos DB is a fast and scalable NoSQL database that helps with storing and analyzing the masses of unstructured data.

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