The OTA & Travel Tech Blog

September 29, 2021

How to Deal with Travel Fraud and How KYC Helps

If you love to travel then you should know it’s not cheap. Be it somewhere local, or somewhere really far away, there will always be costs. This high cost is one of the reasons why there are so many...

July 29, 2021

What are fare rules?

Fare rules are the conditions that come with every airline ticket you purchase. Also known as fare conditions, these rules determine the price you’re going to pay for said ticket. Some of these term...

June 24, 2021

What are the Differences between Economy and Premium Economy?

Back in the day, booking a seat on a flight seemed easy. It was all about picking the one that seemed best. Today, as airlines fight for supremacy, you get tons of options to choose from, which can be...

May 16, 2021

What is the Difference Between Marketing Carrier, Operating Carrier, and Validating Carrier?

Marketing carriers, validating carriers, and operating carrier – If you’re a frequent traveller, you must have heard of these terms. Thanks to the Codeshare Agreement among the airlines, these ter...

December 21, 2020

What is the difference between Layover and Stopover

Understanding airlines’ language is an essential skill every traveller should possess. Unfortunately, it doesn’t happen as often as it should. The airline terms are misunderstood and misinterprete...

July 31, 2020

How Travel Chatbots Are Improving Customer Experience?

Travel chat bots can be used to create an unprecedented level of growth in the dynamic customer-centric travel and tourism industry. The advancement of technology has certainly made travelling much e...

July 18, 2020

What is a Validating / Plating Carrier?

We mostly use online travel companies or travel agents to book our tickets but we are not always directly paying the airline we are traveling with. Rather, most of the time when traveling using multip...

May 20, 2020

What is an Online Travel Agency (OTA) ?

The global landscape for traveling has gone through some extensive changes in the past decade. With robust growth in globalization, removal of several international barriers, and an influx of cross-cu...

May 10, 2020

What is an Internet Booking Engine (IBE)?

The power of the internet combined with the ever-increasing popularity and usage of social media is drastically changing the way things worked previously. Almost no industry is left untouched from the...

April 23, 2020

How to decode an Amadeus PNR?

Amadeus is a major Global Distribution System (GDS) / Central Reservation System (CRS) owned by Amadeus IT Group (BMAD: AMS). It is the largest provider in the travel and tourism industry offering a ...

April 10, 2020

What is a PNR (Passenger Name Record)?

Global tourism has seen a drastic hike in its numbers ever since the days of the second world war. From a measly 25 million international visits in 1950 to an all-time high of 1.4 billion internationa...

April 9, 2020

What is a GDS (Global Distribution System)?

In this era of globalisation and automation, traveling has become an essential part of life. Back in the day, traveling was seen as a luxury for the elites and a necessity for global traders. But toda...