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

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Online Travel Agencies are often painted as disruptive titans, a threat to travel planning as we used to know it. Being big complex systems, with tons of connectivity channels, providers, travelers and many solutions that have to be heavily managed, OTAs have a lot happening on the administrative side.

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

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When online travel agencies started slowly but surely replacing traditional shops in 2005 , Internet-adept travelers had learned to book their trips on their home PC. Along with cost saving, travelers spend less time researching – a process that often takes days and a dozen visited websites.

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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? How GDS distribution works.