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Distribution for the travel industry is about connecting providers (airlines, train companies, car rental companies, hoteliers ... who all have tickets to sell) to customers (business travelers & tourists). Such sales can be done directly or through a travel agent, both offline (during a discussion with an agent) or online (through a web site). Distribution for the travel industry has gone through impressive changes in the past decades with the advent of Global Distribution Systems in 80’s, the rise sophisticated pricing & revenue management policies in the 90’s and the growth of Internet in the past decade.
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Laburthe, F. (2008). Selected Challenges from Distribution and Commerce in the Airline and Travel Industry. In: Perron, L., Trick, M.A. (eds) Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems. CPAIOR 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5015. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68155-7_2
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