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Reducing the risk of travel fraud with electronic identity-verification rervice

  Many travel agencies work in an online landscape regarding booking and payment transfer, and criminals use various techniques to inflict data breaches and transactional losses. The travel industry often falls victim to criminal attacks who use fake IDs and travel; abroad for illegal activities. It may harm the agency's reputation and lead to potentially heavy losses.  To counter this, electronic verification of identity (eIDV) is used to unmask fraudsters who use fake IDs to victimize…

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SEO for travel industry companies & individuals

scyther5   As a travel company - whether you're a tour operator, travel agent, hotel, transportation provider, destination management company, or whatever - or  you are certainly wondering how you can get the most out of search-engine optimization. With a well thought out SEO strategy, you can win over users. In addition, they rank higher in Google searches, which generates additional traffic. Search-engine optimization (SEO) basically includes all measures that help to improve the ranking of…

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5 of the most effective social-media sites for travel agencies

Allowing customers currently traveling to include their comments on a travel agent's social media site allows the travel agent to know right away what is happening. This has a number of benefits that allow the travel agent to: • Make any changes needed if it's a negative comment.. • Send the message to all viewers about the great experience the customer had if it's positive. • Better know what their customers want. An agent can improve customer service immediately and come out ahead of…

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  • Max Hartshorne September 9, 2009 at 10:46pm
    Any other travel sites have experience trying to join SATW? They turned us down twice, and it really frosted me.
  • Robin Prestage July 24, 2009 at 6:56pm
    My Tourism Newsroom website, a clearing house for clients' news releases, has been dormant while I've been considering re-launching and re-designing it. However, I've decided instead to sell the domain name, tourismnewsroom.com. It's listed on a domain sales website at $1,300. Might be best for a newsletter-style website for a single client or group of clients. Anyone interested, please get back to me or feel free to pass on my contact details. Thanks. Robin Prestage.
  • David Paul Appell July 10, 2009 at 7:13pm
    Just heard about a new Google Maps feature called Google City Tours. You type in a location or address, and up pops a map loaded with prominent local sights, museums, and so forth -- plus of course a map leading you to each of them. Pretty cool, actually...
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