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

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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In one Hotel Hell episode, lodge guests had to search for a front desk employee by themselves. Eventually, a bartender checked them in with a pen and notebook…The property owners didn’t have an online booking system and were losing a significant amount of revenue they could have used for development. Distribution.

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Altexsoft

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Global Distribution Systems are responsible for providing booking websites with unified access to a massive inventory of flights, hotel rooms, car rental companies, cruises, and much more. The idea of a Global Distribution System first appeared due to the necessity to distribute air flight tickets. What is a GDS?

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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

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

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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John Snow Labs

MAY 31, 2023

Welcome to Part II of the blog series on extracting entities from text reviews using NLP Lab. In the first part of the blog, we discussed the challenges faced by a market research company as they aimed to extract relevant entities from a vast dataset of hotel reviews. In that case, we must fine-tune the labeling in our tasks.

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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

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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Altexsoft

MARCH 24, 2022

Let’s be honest, for many hotels, payment functionality is not a priority. Once integrated, the payment gateway or processing solution isn’t customarily upgraded or reviewed. Hotel payments challenges. Currently, there are four main areas where hotels experience shortcomings with their payment technology.

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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

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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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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Altexsoft

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In this case, an airline won’t have to check an agency over again every time an agent connects to the carrier’s reservation system. Once being checked that way, a business is no longer examined by an airline or a hotel chain supplier. Requires annual reviews. The thing is, IATA conducts interim annual financial reviews.

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CircleCI

JULY 31, 2019

HOTEL BALLROOM] A cold, windowless conference room at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas during the summer of 2019. Several dozen people, most wearing black hoodies, are hunched over laptops whispering about default system passwords and hunting for deleted (supposedly) password.txt files in Docker containers. How to teach security.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Security professionals need to stay up-to-date by engaging in ongoing training, using online courses, books, and videos. are information systems security managers (a role defined by NIST). whose role involves designing security systems—again, roughly a quarter of the total. Are our customers typical of the security industry?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

We are running a very large indexing and search system that is serving more and more results.” Once upon a time, Google would surface personal information such as upcoming flight or hotel reservations in search results using data gleaned from Gmail , not to mention serving personalized ads based on the content of users’ inboxes.

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OTS Solutions

MAY 22, 2023

GPT-2 was expertly trained to perform various tasks such as writing product descriptions, summaries of movies, etc. This can help you to improve the efficiency of your system. This bias may arise due to the dataset that ChatGPT is trained on which may contain incomplete data, leading to incorrect responses.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We discuss how to use system prompts and few-shot examples, and how to optimize inference parameters, so you can get the most out of Meta Llama 3. They come in two variants—8 billion and 70 billion parameters—with each size offering both a base pre-trained version and an instruct-tuned version.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2018

To see where exactly a travel agency is positioned in the travel distribution flow, check out two handy infographics we created for airline management and hotel distribution. This includes hotel and flight bookings, transfers, activities, excursions, etc. Today most travelers have no problem booking their hotels themselves.

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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

MARCH 13, 2020

Large wholesalers have contracts with all main Global Distribution Systems or GDSs. This saves travel agents the headache of time-consuming training needed to deal with each particular GDS. Due to established bonds with numerous airlines, consolidators can handle complicated itineraries involving multiple cities and carriers.

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Altexsoft

AUGUST 13, 2020

And hospitality is no exception: the hotel industry operates large amounts of data by its nature. Today, we’ll look at the specifics of using BI in the hotel industry. Business intelligence in hotels: sources of data and components. Hotel data sources. Hotel Property Management System modules.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2019

No recent achievements can compete with inventions of a multilayer perceptron (MLP) , neural net training techniques like backpropagation and backpropagation through time (BPTT), residual networks, the introduction of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), and deep Q-learning networks ( DQN ). ”So, BERT pre-training technique.

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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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Capgemini

MAY 21, 2025

Germany, France, and the Netherlands are leading the charge, but the UK remains one of the most dynamic and influential markets due to the economics of new EV brands entering the market. However, this requires a well-integrated operating model across people, processes, and systems.

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Altexsoft

JUNE 9, 2023

Large language models and transformers in a nutshell Language models , types of machine learning models, are trained to anticipate the likelihood of a word sequence. This attribute makes them parallelizable, accelerating the training process and enhancing efficiency. The attention mechanism is the core of transformer systems.

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Altexsoft

APRIL 12, 2019

It’s still hard for small online travel agencies and other travel distribution businesses to enter the market, due to such giants as Expedia and Booking Holdings owning most of the market. The events chosen will depict the gradual change of reservation systems, giving a solid understanding of how airline distribution had developed.

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Altexsoft

OCTOBER 11, 2018

But they’re out there, open to the public, collecting users and reviews, while benefiting their developers. Despite the wince-inducing price tag (the cheapest high-end system PlayStation VR retails for $350), VR gaming remains the most accessible way for consumers form to experience the technology. Training and education.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2021

Flight booking steps and key systems involved. . The reservation data is transmitted to the airline’s central reservation system (CRS). Instead, they host inventory and manage bookings on one of the major global distribution systems (GDSs) — Amadeus, Sabre, or Travelport — which function as data warehouses and aggregators.

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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

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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