Chargeback may be a new term for all of you…But you all will be familiar with the concept. In essence, a chargeback is a refund made at the bank level. After a transaction is complete, the bank of a dissatisfied cardholder aggressively...
A world not depending on App stores for native applications…Yes it is on the way. Progressive Web Application is coming. Progressive Web Applications (PWA) takes advantage of the latest technologies to combine the best of web and mobile a...
Vafion has been offering API integration services exclusively to the hospitality industry. We also helped big organizations plan,build and manage their APIs. We have also supported some of the well-known hospitality sector players in ...
When a hotelier lists his properties on various platforms, such as Booking.com, Airbnb, HomeAway, TripAdvisor, etc., he needs to keep track of the bookings on these platforms. Manually doing so is a hectic thing if the number of OTA...
Travel and tourism industry creates more and more jobs. Developing tourism leads to more and more employment opportunities and greater economic growth. A staggering 10 percent of the world’s GDP lies in tourism. But still many tourist are...
Carpooling gets a modern day makeover with a set of wheels and wings: Airpooling is one of the most economical and practical solution. Aviation industry is one of the most affected due to COVID 19. The industry is in great need for a qui...
No travels…No bookings…No hotels…No vacation rental…No humans- All are staying home.... Covid-19 has turned most of the industries upside down. The worst affected are the travel and hospitality. Yes, it is a complete lockdown for t...
Everyone around you is talking big mouth on Docker, What is Docker really?Docker is a platform for developers and sysadmins to develop, ship, and run applications. Docker lets you quickly assemble applications from components and eliminates...
There are three different types of integration API implementation for any Vacation Rental system: Property Manager Import API Implementation: In this type of integration we used to fetch the property information from the Partner's syste...
As vacation rentals continue to grow in popularity, many people are wondering what all the fuss is about. To help out, we came up with few reasons on why choosing a vacation rental will be a better choice. #1. Hotelization of Vacati...
In this article, I have pointed and discussed about five features of Java 8 by which seems more interesting for me. Stream and other special features Lambda expressions Parallel operations JavaScript engine ...
Microservices Architecture This is one of the pattern languages used in the application development. A pattern language is a method of describing good design practices within a field of expertise. The Scale Cube This is the three dimen...
I would like to share some of my knowledge in Spark Java in this article. I will carry my article in a way of answering the following questions What, Why, Where,When and How ? With some code examples. I will cover the rest of the things in ...
We had a long weekend, as usual we were off to our village which is about 60 KM from Kochi, a place full of rubber plantations, pineapple, pepper, coffee, Jack fruit and all tropical plants and trees. While I was chit chatting with a...
This is a list of stunning places, to be in the bucket list of every Kerala traveler, planning for a India vacation next time. 1. Ranipuram Ranipuram is a hill station located within Kasargod district of Kerala state, south ...
Vafion is a Preferred Vacation Rental Technology Partner. We focus on travel and more specifically on vacation rental suppliers, integration of property management systems, OTA channel integrations etc. API Integrations is a thing which...
It's important to do some research on vacation rental insurance when insuring your vacation rental. Vafion is a hospitality technology partner and has been helping organisations in implementing the same. Have a read on a thing or two you sh...
Vafion is a preferred vacation rental technology partner and API integrations are what we do every day. I would like to share with you on: HOW vREST API CAN BE USED FOR REST TESTING? vREST is an online API testing tool for Automa...
Let me start by stating this issue which most vacation rental property owners are facing: How to improve the OTA ranking? “On Booking.com, we seldom found ourselves in the top five pages, and on Expedia and Airbnb we typically r...
Congratulations, Kerala tourism on winning the Golden Gate award at 14th ITB Berlin, AKA the travel Oscars! The Golden Gate award also known as the ‘Oscar in tourism communication’ was won by Kerala tourism for the second time, con...
Cross-site request forgery CSRF / XSRF : CSRF is a security threat which was available on many crucial websites like banks, government etc. It allows the unauthorized user to make requests to the application, without the knowledge of actual...
