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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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Airline Flight Booking APIs: GDSs, Specialized Data Providers, OTAs and Metasearch Engines

Altexsoft

Airlines, as well as other transportation means and hotels, are improving their distribution strategy by using global distribution systems (GDS). Besides flight APIs, there are car rental or hotel booking APIs that can be integrated into a website so that the visitors could connect to third-party services without switching between websites.

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PMS API Data for Third-Party Apps: How to Become an Integration Partner of Leading PMSs

Altexsoft

That’s why most hotel management systems today are open to partnerships with independent software vendors to easily expand their capabilities and satisfy clients. Mews integration – simple approval and certification Mews is another popular PMS used by over 3,000 hotels, hostels, and vacation rentals, including Accor.

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International Women of Hitachi Vantara

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

That evening, much to my surprise, the hotel concierge delivered a top coat to my room that they loaned to me for my trip to Ankara. Before joining Hitachi, she had different sales and marketing roles in a number of large luxury hotel chains for more than 7 years. Our CIO, CFO, and Chief Human Resource Officer are women.

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B2B Travel Platform For Corporate Travel Management

Altexsoft

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. Central Reservation System (CRS) connection: Many larger suppliers (like hotel chains) have their own CRS.

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Tours and Attractions Distribution: Approaches to Travel Supplier Listing and Customer Experience Management

Altexsoft

Channel managers for tours and activities follow the same logic as hotel channel managers : They allow suppliers to simultaneously manage availability and prices across all distribution channels. Channel management in hotels APIs. Why would you need that? Interested in travel APIs? Public transportation APIs.

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State of the CIO, 2023: Building business strategy

CIO

Andrew Ho, SVP and head of technology and office services, Global Strategy Group Global Strategy Group In addition, Ho says the office services staff is also best positioned to handle the front-end technical support for the firm given they are always in office and maintain a certain relationship with employees.

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