Supporting Airline Industry Achievement of Sustained Financial Health

The White Paper identified the causes of low profitability and proposed a series of IATA-led actions to support addressing these causes with concrete actions and tangible results. The role of the IATA Financial Committee and its Working Groups was also renewed to better face such challenges.

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The Advantage Travel Partnership

As the UK’s largest independent travel agent partnership, the leisure and business travel agents who are part of the group are each independently owned, but as a collective they produce over £4.5bn of travel sales each year, making us experts in every aspect of the travel industry. We are extremely proud of our travel agency partners and although their skills and travel knowledge are as different as the individuals themselves, they all share a passion for travel and a desire to tailor their travel services to the individual needs of their customers. As a partnership, we work closely with our agents to provide them with the tools to offer their customers the most inspirational, yet affordable, range of travel product – and all with the full financial protection you would expect of an organisation of our size.

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ActivitySim ACTIVITY-BASED TRAVEL DEMAND MODELING BUILT BY AND FOR USERS

whitePaper | June 6, 2022

Trip-based models have been around for over half a century. In that time, they have improved in many ways. But their primary shortcoming—that they model trips independently of each other and not the people who make trips—can limit their ability to answer complex transportation planning questions. Activity-based models address this core limitation through microsimulation of individuals and generation of daily travel diaries and activity schedules. However, user concerns about activity-based models’ cost, complexity, and support have limited their wider adoption.

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Improve your guest experience from booking to check-out

whitePaper | January 15, 2023

More than ever, hotels need to focus on providing a more adaptive, flexible, seamless, and personalized guest experience. Relying on a strong payment partner with a dedicated solution for Hospitality can help this transformation. To help hospitality professionals prepare for the future, Worldline introduces Worldline Hospitality Suite.

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Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly Your Way to Digital Personalization.

whitePaper | April 14, 2022

As a marketer, if you are strategizing ways to both differentiate yourself from the competition while also forging better, stronger bonds with your existing customers, personalization should be on your radar. In many ways, digital personalization represents the ultimate experience goal for most organizations — allowing them to fully customize an individual's experience rather than trying to fit all potential customers into a "one size fits all" box that doesn't really exist anymore.

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The Evolving Digital State of the North American Travel Industry

whitePaper | January 5, 2020

The US travel space is rapidly changing. Driving this disruption are three major trends that go hand-in-hand: personalization, early stage consumer acquisitions, and mobile. Personalization is the biggest trend in travel. As of 2017, 57% of US travelers felt that brands should tailor their information based on the personal preferences or past behaviors of consumers. Google and other industry tech giants, like Facebook and Amazon, have been leading this charge through earlier, customized consumer acquisitions. The use of mobile has been paramount in the personalization of travel sales. Mobile also serves as a key platform in early customized consumer acquisitions, experiencing a 50% uptick in travel-related questions stemming from smartphones.

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Exploring Opportunities Travel Retail: 2023 outlook

whitePaper | August 22, 2022

Travel retail is a complex channel which includes airport retail (duty free & food services), cruise & ferry, border stores and other smaller channels. Airport retail is the biggest channel with a focus on international travellers. Retail is operated through a concession model which is costly for retailers which in turn must focus on high value and profit categories & products.

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The Intelligent Enterprise for the Passenger Travel and Leisure Industry

whitePaper | June 2, 2021

Read how airlines are taking advantage of the digital economy by leveraging opportunities to serve travelers, spark loyalty, and drive profit. They are selling and merchandising like retailers, building new alliances and networks, and optimizing operations to create innovative personalized traveler experiences. Download the Document

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Spotlight

The Advantage Travel Partnership

As the UK’s largest independent travel agent partnership, the leisure and business travel agents who are part of the group are each independently owned, but as a collective they produce over £4.5bn of travel sales each year, making us experts in every aspect of the travel industry. We are extremely proud of our travel agency partners and although their skills and travel knowledge are as different as the individuals themselves, they all share a passion for travel and a desire to tailor their travel services to the individual needs of their customers. As a partnership, we work closely with our agents to provide them with the tools to offer their customers the most inspirational, yet affordable, range of travel product – and all with the full financial protection you would expect of an organisation of our size.

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