The Cipher Brief

JANUARY 27, 2019

Al-Shabab, the terrorist group that has claimed allegiance to Al Qaeda, claimed responsibility for a January 15 attack on an upscale hotel complex in Nairobi. Al-Shabab, the terrorist group that has claimed allegiance to Al Qaeda, claimed responsibility for a January 15 attack on an upscale hotel complex in Nairobi.

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Altexsoft

JUNE 25, 2022

Besides, due to the specific nature of the industry with high-value one-off payments, a big number of businesses across the world, and rapid customer consumption of services, the travel and hospitality sector is a huge target for fraud. In 2019, the travel and hospitality industry accounted for a whopping 10.3 percent of global GDP.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 12, 2021

How long does it take an average traveler to pick up a hotel? We stayed at this hotel for five days” is neutral, “I liked staying here” is positive, and. “We We stayed at this hotel for five days” is neutral, “I liked staying here” is positive, and. “I I disliked the hotel” is negative. Step 1 — data collection.

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 27, 2015

The truth is that every organization needs some form of plan to guide its actions or it will simply “drift off course” in the chaos businesses often face in their daily operations. Myth #7: The plan is a binder on a shelf. Myth #1: “We don’t need a strategic plan!” Myth #3: “It interferes with our real jobs.”

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Strategic Planning Off-The-Shelf Hotels Continuous Integration 52

Altexsoft

AUGUST 2, 2021

Today, a hotel concierge is the person whose job is to assist the guest with any request or problem — be it arranging a manicure, an urgent dry cleaning, or a pet walk. So, let’s explore the opportunities to improve customer satisfaction and other benefits concierge software can bring to your hotel. What is a virtual concierge?

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Altexsoft

APRIL 24, 2019

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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Altexsoft

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Definitely, a concrete list of responsibilities depends on a specific venue and its size (sometimes there might even be multiple locations), i.e., a convention center, a theater, a stadium, a hotel, or any other hosting location. There’s a piece of technology that can take a part of this burden off your shoulders.

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Altexsoft

OCTOBER 27, 2023

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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Altexsoft

OCTOBER 19, 2018

So, we try to remember whether we’ve locked doors, turned off home appliances, checked bags (again!) We distinguish three types of public transportation apps: general purpose apps, apps by transport providers, and apps used for the hop-on hop-off tours. Hop-on hop-off tour apps. Scheduling and disruption tracking.

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

And it’s slowly paying off. Insurance companies find it difficult to attract new customers and retain them, especially when almost every insurer offers the same service or product. It’s also challenging since insurance is a low-touch industry, and insurers seldomly interact with their customers. The customer loyalty problem in insurance.

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The Hustle

JANUARY 12, 2024

She was standing in a Dollar General store a few miles from Cascade, Maryland, where she and a dozen other residents are suing a developer to stop a Dollar General from going up. It was horrible.” Cascade, a village of 840 people, has three dollar stores within five miles of town. It’s been there for nearly two years. Dollar General is invasive.

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LeanEssays

AUGUST 19, 2015

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.

Software Review 71

Software Review Weak Development Team Government Banking 71

The Daily WTF

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

They put out a shingle as a contractor, knocked on doors, made phone calls, and targeted those small businesses that needed something a little more custom than just off-the-shelf could get, but didn't have the money to afford a larger dev shop. He got a call from a local hotel who needed their booking system finished up.

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Altexsoft

MAY 8, 2020

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.

Travel 69

Travel Engineering Hotels Airlines 69

Altexsoft

MAY 30, 2022

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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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Performance measurement typically drives much of the way a large company works. We talked extensively in this book about how accounting profits or profit growth as a sole performance metric doesn’t lead to value creation. They don’t tell you how well the business is positioned for future growth and ROIC improvement.

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Altexsoft

MAY 5, 2023

The short-term rentals (STR) market has been expanding rapidly in recent years, with popular vacation rental platforms like Airbnb, Booking.com, and VRBO transforming how people travel and lodge. As this industry progresses, property owners and managers constantly search for ways to improve their operations and outpace their competition.

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Altexsoft

JANUARY 6, 2022

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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Altexsoft

JUNE 2, 2021

However, if you are, say, a hotel, a law firm, or a daycare, you probably don’t have a problem counting your office supplies, towels, light bulbs, or furniture items and don’t need a sophisticated inventory management solution to maintain records and support the reordering process. What is inventory management? eCommerce businesses.

Software Review 72

Software Review Technical Review Software Technology 72

Altexsoft

MAY 20, 2022

Hotels, car rentals, cruise companies, retail outlets, and other businesses buy points from airlines (the price ranges but on average it’s 1 to 2 cents per point) and then grant these points to their own customers as a reward for transactions. According to it, American Airlines’ AAdvantage was worth $37.6 billion, United’s MileagePlus – $28.7

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Altexsoft

JANUARY 17, 2020

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.

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Altexsoft

DECEMBER 10, 2019

And that episode was not a one-off. Except that we are describing real-life situations caused by small failures in the computer system. Something that happens quite often nowadays. PSS, ARS, and CRS: their meaning and a brief history. urrently, three generations of PSSs coexist in commercial aviation. The first generation: legacy systems.

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