Travel Consortia: Full Guide for Agents and Advisors

 In today's cutthroat travel industry, independent agents face fierce competition from big OTAs and TMCs – yet many thrive by joining forces through travel consortia. These networks help level the playing field by connecting agents to a wealth of resources – from enhanced commissions and preferred 

Duty of Care in Business Travel: How It's Changing With Advancing Technology

 An important part of any corporate travel program is making sure employees are protected while carrying out business activities away from the office. When people travel for work, companies are expected to look after their safety, health, and general well-being, just as they would at home. One way 

Database Migration in Hospitality: Hands-on Experience Transferring Information for Hundreds of Hotels

 Moving data from one system to another is an inevitable part of modernization — and rarely a painless one. Industry statistics show that more than 80 percent of data migration projects miss their time or budget targets, largely due to the complexity involved. Whether the transfer is from 

Airline Revenue Management Software: Maximizing Earnings Per Seat and Passenger

 Airlines operate on razor-thin margins. Aircraft are expensive to acquire and maintain, seats—the core product—are perishable, and competition is intense. Amid these pressures, there is a narrow pricing corridor where fares are both competitive and economically viable. That’s why revenue 

Insurtech Market Overview: Segments, Trends, Key Players

 Insurtech is transforming insurance from a rigid, paperwork-heavy industry into a digital, data-driven ecosystem. By combining technology with insurance expertise, insurtech companies are redefining how policies are created, distributed, and experienced. In this post, we explore the current 

Hotelbeds API Integration: Hands-on Experience with a Leading Bed Bank

 In the ever-evolving travel industry landscape, the seamless integration of global accommodation providers is pivotal. OTAs, TMCs, and other travel resellers require real-time access to a wide range of accommodations to cater to the diverse needs of their customers. Hotelbeds, a leading 

Self-Supervised Learning Explained

 Most of the data around us—like text, images, audio, and transaction logs—exists in its raw form. It’s often messy and incomplete,  which makes it difficult to extract useful information from. Turning it into a format that machine learning models can learn from usually takes a lot of time and 

RevPAR, Occupancy Rate, ADR, and Other Hotel Metrics: How to Evaluate Your Property’s Performance

 In the hospitality industry, choosing the right metrics and carefully tracking them can help you, as the hotelier or hotel manager, to understand how your hotel is performing, compare it with your competitors, and possibly find the weak points and opportunities for improvement. So, the aim of this 

How to Create and Implement a Corporate Travel Program and Choose an Online Booking Tool

 For many companies, corporate travel is a source of profitable deals, long-lasting partnerships, and networking opportunities – as well as huge expenses. According to GBTA estimates published in mid-2025, global business travel spending is projected to exceed $1.5 trillion. It’s also a source of 

Access Control Matrix (ACM): A Practical Guide to Permission Design

 As organizations grow, access control often turns into a patchwork of one-off permissions, inherited rights, and undocumented exceptions. Over time, it becomes unclear who can access what—and why—making audits painful and security risks harder to identify. An access control matrix (ACM) helps 

The Good and Bad of ChromaDB for RAG: Based on Our Experience

 Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) is a context engineering approach that improves the accuracy and reliability of AI-generated responses. Large language models (LLMs), powering AI apps, can provide outdated information, mix up concepts, or even generate facts that aren’t true. RAG addresses 

Travel Advisors Market: Thriving or Struggling for Relevancy?

 The notion of the “death of a travel agent/advisor” has been a recurring theme since the emergence of Expedia and Travelocity in the late 1990s. Yet, three decades on, travel advisors are still very much in business. Today, AI tools reshape the industry and the question arises again: Is the travel 

How Travel Agents Get Paid: Revenue Sources and Streams

 In this article, we examine the core revenue streams of travel agencies, identify who actually pays the reseller (the supplier, another intermediary, or the traveler), track how these revenue sources have evolved over time, and explain how new technologies have reshaped the travel distribution 

Hotel Property Management Systems Products and Features

Hotel Property Management Systems: Products and Features

 In this article, we’ll talk about property management systems (PMSs) that handle reservations, front- and back-office operations, channel management, and more. You’ll learn about the main functions of PMSs, compare products available from different providers, and receive recommendations on how to 

MCP Servers in Travel: Landscape and Providers

 The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is changing how travel platforms access real-time data. Instead of building many custom integrations, systems can connect to MCP servers that act as a standard interface to existing flight, hotel, rail, and mobility systems. As the consistent interaction layer, MCP 

Agentic Context Engineering Explained

 As AI systems take on more complex tasks, one of the biggest challenges is keeping their behavior and output consistent. Static prompts—or predefined instructions given to an AI system—only work up to a point: AI agents often lose important details during sessions, as they move from one step to 

IATA Numbers and Codes Explained

 Overseeing the entire aviation industry isn’t a piece of cake. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has been carrying this burden for decades. It relentlessly develops regulations, sets up procedures, creates digital tools – in short, it does everything to make international air 

Building a Flight Aggregator for OTA: Hands-On Experience

 An online travel agency (OTA) selling airline tickets typically faces the challenge of managing airline content from various sources , each with its unique “dialect” and workflow. In this article, we share our experience designing a unified flight API solution that brings together diverse 

Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) in Insurance

 Insurance companies handle enormous amounts of paperwork — claim forms, medical reports, invoices, and policy applications — all of which arrive in different formats and often require hours of manual review. Intelligent document processing helps optimize workflows and save on manual labor. Let’s 

Travel Technology Providers Landscape INFOGRAPHIC

Travel Technology Providers Landscape

 Back in 2011, Scott Brinker, a marketing technology analyst, unveiled his first version of the Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic with about 150 companies. In 2020, the Supergraphic contained about 8,000 companies. The Supergraphic has become “a desk companion” of every marketer out 

Amadeus API Integration: Practice Guide on Getting the GDS Content

 What differentiates a travel professional from an occasional traveler? The latter thinks that the word Amadeus relates to Mozart’s music. The former would insist that Amadeus plays the first fiddle, but in the travel tech industry. Amadeus, a Madrid-based travel giant, grows its business around 

Guest Travel Management: How to Streamline Nonemployee Business Trips

 Guest or non-employee travel, once a minor aspect of travel and expense (T&E) management, has now emerged as a crucial business function. This shift is fueled by the growth of remote work, hybrid models, and the gig economy, where organizations engage external talent and experts on demand. Yet, 

AltexSoft Makes The Financial Times List of the Americas’ 300 Fastest Growing Companies 2026

AltexSoft Ranks 113th in Inc. Regionals Pacific for 2026

AI Reasoning Explained: End of "Chat" Models

Take a deep dive into the "internal monologue" of AI as it learns to think before it speaks. Discover how machines now unspool their own reasoning, navigate complex logic, and correct their own mistakes to solve problems once thought impossible.

Airbnb’s $200M Product Pivot: Reinvention or Overreach?

Airbnb once promised stays like a local – not a hotel guest. Now it’s adding services, experiences, and – yes, hotels.
So what exactly is Airbnb trying to be now? Is it evolving—or quietly turning into the very thing it once disrupted? And most importantly, will these moves unlock a new growth engine — or risk breaking the one that made the company successful?

Hidden Reason Travel Giants Are Buying Fintechs

Alex Medovoi, Founder and CEO of AltexSoft, discusses what tech startups can bring to the table, and see if there’s any investment potential in this space.

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