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some hotels on a travel website can be confirmed
instantly. As different travel websites. |
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Different hotels that it can confirm instantly. Some
examples of such online travel websites |
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They
work on a commission from these hotels/airlines.
Often they provide cheaper rates than the mainline
service providers.
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All travel sites that sell hotels online work together
with GDS, suppliers and hotels directly to search for
room inventory. Once the travel site sells a hotel, the
site will try to get a confirmation for this hotel. Once
confirmed or not, the customer is contacted with the
result. This means that booking a hotel on a travel
website will not necessarily result in an instant
answer.
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Tour operators have hotel contracts,
alottments and free sell agreements which
allow for the immediate confirmation of
hotel rooms for vacation bookings. |
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Mainline service providers are those that
actually produce the direct service, like
various hotels chains/airlines that have a
website for online bookings. |
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