Vacation Rental Software for Management and Distribution

 While many travelers still choose to stay in hotels, there are those who prefer vacation rentals as an alternative. According to Booking.com, 40 percent of all new bookings in the second quarter of 2020 were made for alternative accommodations. Expedia Group also mentioned the increased demand for 

Travel Fraud Protection: Key Types of Travel Scam, Protective Measures, and Software to Consider

 In 2019, the travel and hospitality industry accounted for a whopping 10.3 percent of global GDP. While this share decreased to 5.3 percent in 2020 due to pandemic restrictions, in 2021, the industry saw a rise of up to 6.1 percent, which is about $5.7 trillion. Of course, everyone knows that 

QA Engineering Roles: Skills, Tools, and Responsibilities in a Testing Team

 Depending on team size, structure, and organization’s specific needs, the role of a software tester is viewed and utilized differently. Most often, software testing job titles are designated QA (Quality Assurance) or Tester. They may also include the following specifications:

technology: Selenium 

Vacation Rental Channel Managers: Best Providers and How to Pick One

 In 2007, Airbnb changed the game by giving homeowners a platform to capitalize on their accommodations and travelers a place to find unique and affordable housing. In 2022, there are much more online booking websites that host alternative accommodations. Vacation rentals can be booked on 

Travel Agency Inventory System: Main Sources and Management Aspects

 Travel agencies serve as intermediaries between travel products suppliers who want to expand their customer reach and travelers who want to see what their options are and book a number of travel services from one convenient interface. To make it possible, a travel business has to have access to 

Machine Learning Metrics: How to Measure the Performance of a Machine Learning Model

 Choosing the machine learning path when developing your software is only half the battle. Yes, it’s an advanced way of doing things. Yes, it brings automation, so widely discussed machine intelligence, and other awesome perks. But just because you put it there doesn’t guarantee your project will 

Care Management and Coordination Software: How It Increases Revenue and Improves Patient Outcomes

 About 60 percent of Americans battle at least one chronic disease such as diabetes, depression, or asthma. Those long-lasting conditions are both dangerous and costly, accounting for 75 percent of the nation’s expenditures on healthcare. Of course, this unhealthy situation needs immediate 

Load Boards for Trucking: Functionality Overview, Integration Options, and Top Players Comparison

 Marketplaces have been around for thousands of years. They serve as hubs that connect buyers and sellers, enabling trade and goods/services exchange, and are inexhaustible sources of local information. Today, a big part of these activities moved from traditional downtown bazaars to the Internet – 

Conversational AI: How Advanced Chatbots Work

 In our modern world, there's hardly a business that doesn't need a communication channel with its customers. Here's the catch though: According to Meta (formerly Facebook), 64 percent of people would rather message than speak to a human call center agent on the phone. Besides that, customers want 

Online Restaurant Reservation Landscape: Location Discovery, Table Booking, Delivery and Reviews

 We no longer have to wander from one website to another to pick a restaurant and reserve a table. We simply go to a restaurant aggregator website and are introduced to a number of places to choose from. Thanks to APIs, all the necessary info  — i.e., menus, location, reviews, and so on  — is in 

Length of Stay in Hospital: How to Predict the Duration of Inpatient Treatment

 How many days will a particular person spend in a hospital? Healthcare facilities and insurance companies would give a lot to know the answer for each new admission. Today, we can employ AI technologies to predict the date of discharge. This article describes how data and machine learning help 

Airline Loyalty Programs: Main Aspects, Types, and a Technological Perspective

 A few years ago, Joe DeNardi, a Stifel analyst, published a sensational report that contained estimated values of some of the biggest US airlines’ loyalty programs. According to it, American Airlines’ AAdvantage was worth $37.6 billion, Delta’s SkyMiles was estimated at $33.1 billion, United’s 

Micro Frontend: A Microservice Approach to Developing Web UIs

 There's been a lot of buzz around the microservices concept lately with quite a few businesses adopting it to get rid of huge, monolithic backends. While this distributed style of building the server-side of web apps is more or less stable in terms of research and implementation, going the same 

Data Pipeline: Components, Types, and Use Cases

 Let’s say you run a large online bookstore. It’s open 24/7. Users may place orders and pay for them literally every minute or second. That means your website must quickly process lots of transactions involving small amounts of data like order ID and details, user ID, or credit card data. Online 

Audio Analysis With Machine Learning: Building AI-Fueled Sound Detection App

 We live in the world of sounds: Pleasant and annoying, low and high, quiet and loud, they impact our mood and our decisions. Our brains are constantly processing sounds to give us important information about our environment. But acoustic signals can tell us even more if analyze them using modern 

Cold Chain Logistics Management: How to Handle Temperature-Sensitive Goods

 When ice cream melts in your hands on a hot day, it can be a bit frustrating; but if a load of vaccines can’t be used because it went bad due to improper storage or transportation conditions, the results are a lot more serious, if not fatal. There are a number of food products, medications, and 

Digital Transformation Guide Reshaping Your Business to Meet the Digital Age

Digital Transformation Guide: Reshaping Your Business to Meet the Digital Age

 Digital transformation is perhaps the fuzziest term in the business world. Trying to capture too many moving parts, it becomes white noise. Then, struggling to explain it, we say it’s an umbrella term. But what does digital transformation mean? Is it about keeping up with new gadgets and software? 

Data Integrity: Types, Threats, and Countermeasures

 Data systematizes daily processes and governs them by enabling data-driven decisions for businesses and organizations. But in order to analyze the information correctly and profit from it, you should guarantee data integrity. This article explores what data integrity is, what it is not, and why 

Digital and Сomputational Pathology: Workflow, Tools, and Limitations to Be Addressed

 Pathology bridges science and medicine, driving medical experts to a deep understanding of diseases. Its role hasn’t changed over the past 150 years. And — oops — almost the same could be said about its methods. In the era of the Internet of Medical Things, telehealth, digital therapeutics, and 

Vacation Rental Revenue Management: Dynamic Pricing Tools by Beyond, PriceLabs, Airbnb, Vrbo, and More

 The short-term rental (STR) business has come a long way. 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. Even in the pandemic years, as the entire travel sector 

Carbon Offset in Aviation Explained: How ICAO CORSIA Helps Airlines Get Closer to Net Zero

 At this time of global environmental change awareness, people, countries, and businesses are acting to reduce their harmful impact. Aviation is one of the major sources of greenhouse gasses, so airlines must adopt effective strategies to decarbonize their operations. IATA and its members committed 

Responsible AI: Ways to Avoid the Dark Side of AI Use

 “AI systems (will) take decisions that have ethical grounds and consequences.”
Prof. Dr. Virginia Dignum from Umeå University
On March 23, 2016, Microsoft released its AI-based chatbot Tay via Twitter. The bot was trained to generate its responses based on interactions with users. But there was a 

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Trip.com: Will the Chinese Giant Push Out Expedia and Booking?

Where do you book travel? It turns out that more than half of us use online travel agencies. But which ones? Well, it depends on where you live. In the US, it’s mostly about Expedia. In Europe, Booking.com rules. In Southeast Asia? Agoda's got you covered. 

But how about China – that little-known country in the far East with a modest population of 1.4 billion? That’s where Trip.com is clearly the winner, dominating over half of the market.

Every year, the air travel industry loses around a billion dollars to payment fraud. This results not only in financial losses but also in damaged passenger trust. However, there is a way forward. Learn how to detect fraud earlier by recognizing common scams and discover best practices to protect both your business and your customers.

Fighting Payment Fraud in Air Travel

Quality and Risk Management in TMC Workflow

Kirill Stati, Managing Director of Travel Tech at AltexSoft, explores how Travel Management Companies manage quality and risk. From booking checks and RPA-powered automation to disruption response and travel analytics, discover how modern tech is reshaping corporate travel operations for safety, efficiency, and compliance.

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Vacation Rental Software for Management and Distribution

Data Pipeline: Components, Types, and Use Cases