Xicom

AUGUST 13, 2020

Here, I am sharing some technology trends for online booking to answer the most frequently asked questions: How sustainability is driving hotel decisions? Might be due to a flight cancellation or because you missed the last train. Thus, the flight booking and hotel stay procedure should be simple. Probably yes!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

On a recent winter morning in New Delhi, Rajan Anandan and Pieter Kemps were pacing on the floor of a five-star hotel, quizzing a group of over two dozen young startup founders about their goals. One founder set eyes on getting the most downloads in the mobile gaming category.

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Altexsoft

JANUARY 19, 2022

Greenhouse gases (tourism is responsible for around 8 percent of global carbon emissions, three-quarters of which is due to aviation), local resource overuse (e.g., It means that people want to travel responsibly, so hotels, airlines, and tour companies have to keep up and satisfy their customers (and attract new ones).

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2023

Laserfiche CIO Thomas Phelps’ firm made the call to close its offices on Mondays and Fridays after reviewing data that showed the fewest number of employees were in the office on those days. Worker burnout Laserfiche’s Phelps is also concerned about the increasing number of tech workers suffering burnout.

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CIO

JULY 5, 2023

In April 2023, Koushik received one of the organization’s SustainableIT Impact Awards for environmental impact, alongside Choice Hotels’ CIO Brian Kirkland and others. What we must do is continuously train our people. Other board members include IT leaders from Morgan Stanley , Allstate, Telefónica Germany, and Campbell Soup Company.

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Altexsoft

AUGUST 9, 2023

It’s a systematic approach to handling various travel operations such as hotel bookings, flight tickets, travel policies, and reporting with the aim of cost control, adherence to corporate policies, and employee comfort and safety. Corporate travel management comes with its unique set of needs and challenges. Legacy GDS limitations.

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Altexsoft

APRIL 19, 2022

From sharing a corner in your living room with an air mattress to running a whole hotel-like operation with multiple properties, alternative accommodation hosts today can make bank. Hotels want to be like Airbnbs, investing in unique, homey properties where people come to live, rest, and work. Hotels and vacation rentals, compared.

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Altexsoft

AUGUST 25, 2021

Both in daily life and in business, we deal with massive volumes of unstructured text data : emails, legal documents, product reviews, tweets, etc. Besides simply looking for email addresses associated with spam, these systems notice slight indications of spam emails, like bad grammar and spelling, urgency, financial language, and so on.

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Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

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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Altexsoft

MARCH 28, 2022

This term refers to hotel alternatives that can be booked for several days or weeks (hence, the second name — short-term rentals.) Vacation rentals usually offer guests more attractive prices than hotels along with a more private setting. Before going any further, let’s make it clear what vacation rentals are.

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Altexsoft

MAY 29, 2023

They assess potential partners before giving them the tools to sell flights, hotels, and cruises. With the IATA logo on your website, you don’t have to gain trust or prove your legitimacy to airlines or hotels. Basically, any company that provides travel booking services, such as air, hotel, car, cruises, etc. Who is it for?

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Altexsoft

MARCH 23, 2022

In 1841, its founder chartered a train to carry temperance supporters to a meeting 12 miles away – and that was the world’s first package tour. Besides, a tour operator can own some of the package components, for example, run an airline or hotel. Usually those are local companies that actually provide travel services.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 27, 2023

As a hotel revenue manager, one of your key responsibilities is creating a pricing strategy tailored to the property and its market. Many hotels still rely on a fixed pricing strategy that uses a tiered pricing system based on room types. You can check out our video about revenue management before starting to read this post.

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Altexsoft

MAY 13, 2021

In 2021, the biggest challenge hotels face is successfully recovering from the COVID-19 impact. Even before the pandemic, when travel was booming, hotels — especially of middle and small sizes — experienced difficulties of another sort. What is a hotel booking engine and how it makes you competitive.

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scruminc

JULY 27, 2023

Jade Morel VP of Client Services On the Psychology of Military Incompetence by Norman F Dixon “This book examines the systemic dysfunction within military organizations and why militaries are successful despite this. Based in a glamorous hotel, our protagonist maid stumbles upon a body becoming the prime suspect of murder.

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Altexsoft

APRIL 24, 2019

Such a pricing strategy can lead to bad reviews, complaints, or worse. The expert recalls cases when clients were charged preposterous fees for short rides due to extremely high demand, for instance, during the New Year’s Eve. Customers don’t like to feel like they’ve paid more than other people for the same product or service.

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Altexsoft

JUNE 25, 2022

percent in 2020 due to pandemic restrictions, in 2021, the industry saw a rise up to 6.1 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.

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

If you’d like to save time and the headache of making separate agreements with each inventory supplier, here’s a way out – partner with a travel inventory aggregator – be it a global distribution system (GDS), a bed bank, or a big OTA. Templates Pros: minimal tech resources needed, the fastest way to get hotel booking to market.

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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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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 22, 2020

With social movements, leaders fight powerful actors preying on vulnerable communities or the public at large —and critically examines and ameliorates its own participation in systemic violence. Enabling this is a culture of psychological safety and training to engage kindly with divergent ideas.

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Altexsoft

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

It gives access to Timatic databases via major airline reservation systems , departure control systems , and global distribution systems using a command-line interface. As you can guess, this is not actually automatic – users should be trained to use the system, write relevant requests, and freely navigate the query.

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Due to a surfeit of information about AI and big data on the Internet, companies can assume that data analysis is the solution for most of their data-related issues. Amazon and Netflix recommendation systems). Let’s assume, for example, to adjust your marketing campaign you need to analyze reviews that customers share on social media.

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Altexsoft

JANUARY 27, 2021

However, there are still hotels that rely on pen and paper or Excel spreadsheets to assign rooms, maintain booking records, register guests, invoice them, and address their complaints. Some hotels go even further and implement self-service check-in and facial recognition features. How front desk software can benefit the hotel business.

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Altexsoft

AUGUST 18, 2023

OTAs, hotel booking platforms , and other travel businesses need to have real-time access to extensive hotel inventories to offer diverse choices to their customers. With the strategic acquisition of Tourico Holidays and GTA wholesalers, Hotelbeds expanded its portfolio to encompass over 300,000 hotels across 200 destination countries.

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The models are trained to assign higher scores to leads with those attributes. To implement a predictive lead scoring system, insurers can build it from scratch or buy a ready-made one. Off-the-shelf lead scoring systems. The ready-made systems such as Maroon.ai Customer retention strategies in insurance.

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Altexsoft

JANUARY 29, 2020

The good news is that carriers can save billions of dollars through more sophisticated scheduling systems. In this article, we’ll talk about the main challenges of crew management, how IT systems cope with them, and what the AltexSoft team has learned from the experience of working with aviation projects. Looks almost impossible?

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Altexsoft

JANUARY 17, 2023

However, they integrate the new inventory into the parent management system to establish data sharing and create a unified booking system. However, it’s a big project as you’ll have to create a set of guidelines, procedures, and standards, as well as design a training program for new partners. Start a franchise program.

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General Leadership

AUGUST 6, 2013

An accomplished unconventional leader and proven status quo buster, he has successfully led several multi-billion dollar transformation efforts and his award-winning work has been featured in a wide variety of articles and journals, including the Harvard Business Review.

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Netlify

JULY 1, 2019

Cornerstone OnDemand is a public company that helps organizations recruit, train, and manage their people. Its customers include hundreds of the world’s largest companies—from Walgreens and Starwood Hotels & Resorts to Deutsche Post DHL and Western Union, as well as government agencies, hospitals, nonprofits, and schools.

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Education and training. Almost all host agencies provide different types of training programs to both newbies and those already familiar with travel business. That’s why travel hosts typically arrange marketing programs for travel agencies , which embrace training, courses, marketing materials and technologies to build a business.

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Altexsoft

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Why don’t employees look for the best prices, book their flights and hotels, and then submit reimbursement requests all by themselves? The key advantage of partnering with global TMCs is their ability to negotiate special rates with major airlines and hotel chains on behalf of their client and deliver services multi-nationally.

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Altexsoft

JUNE 21, 2023

The Average Daily Rate (ADR) — one of the leading hotel KPIs for gauging performance and profit — has gained considerable importance, and for a reason. It is a hotel performance metric representing the average revenue earned for each room rented out in a hotel over a certain period. Example 1: Small boutique hotel.

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Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This is a collection of texts used for linguistic analysis and training NER models. NER example Consider the sentence: “Mary from the HR department said that The Ritz London was a great hotel option to stay in London.” A corpus can range from a set of news articles to academic journals or even social media posts.

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Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The occupancy rate is a key indicator of the historical, current, and looking-forward performance of a hotel or vacation rental business. The occupancy rate in hospitality is the share of occupied hotel rooms or vacation rental units at a given time. Overall, average hotel occupancy rates range between 65 and 80 percent.

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

If you’d like to save time and headache of making separate agreements with each inventory supplier, here’s a way out – partnering with a travel inventory aggregator – be it a global distribution system (GDS), a bed bank, or a big OTA. Templates Pros: minimal tech resources needed, the fastest way to get hotel booking to market.

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Altexsoft

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The goal of machine learning is to build systems capable of finding patterns in data, learning from it without human intervention and explicit reprogramming. To solve the price prediction problem, data scientists first must understand what data to use to train machine learning models, and that’s exactly why descriptive analytics is needed.

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Altexsoft

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Over the years, the company acquired a range of online travel businesses — Hotels.com (hotel booking), Hotwire, Orbitz, and Travelocity (OTAs), Vrbo ( vacation rentals ), Trivago (a metasearch engine focusing on hotels), and more. Below, we’ll review basic features to pay attention to when choosing a technology provider.

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