Travel Agencies
ARC Agency Accreditation
ARC enables U.S. travel agencies to consolidate the management of their relationships with global air travel suppliers and gives agencies the ability to easily ticket flights worldwide on more than 200 airlines.
BENEFITS
Obtain Air Ticketing Power
ARC empowers agencies to issue air tickets—including cash sales and service fees—on 200+ airlines through GDSs, aggregators, and direct airline connections, helping them build optimal air packages for customers.
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Gain Global Recognition
An ARC-accredited agency is recognized by suppliers worldwide as having the authority to ticket air travel as well as book hotels, cruises and more, based on the type of accreditation.
Tools to Help You Ticket
Interactive Agent Reporting (IAR)
ARC’s Interactive Agent Reporting (IAR) is an electronic sales reporting system for travel agents and CTDs.
Document Retrieval Service
Document Retrieval Service (DRS) is a secure record-keeping system for ARC participants of more than three years of IAR-reported ticketing data.
ARC Pay
When we opened our office in 1991, we knew we needed ARC accreditation for its ticketing and reporting tools. Over the years, we’ve discovered ARC’s true value—from their friendly, knowledgeable customer service to their innovations in debit memo and ticket resolution. Clients recognize the ARC accreditation sign as a mark of trustworthiness they actively seek. I truly believe we couldn’t have grown or stayed in business without ARC.
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Improve Transaction Management
ARC offers a streamlined way to bill and pay for airline transactions to simplify bookkeeping. Agents can view, exchange and modify transactions, leverage financial reports, review and analyze debit memos, and draw on ARC’s industry expertise.
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Get a Seat at the Table
Through participation with ARC, agents have direct access to airlines, technology partners and industry peers to collaborate on issues, trends and goals to better the business they do together. ARC unites the travel industry with topic-specific working groups, industry conferences and more.
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Financial solutions to protect and propel commerce
Training and Support
ARC provides training, webinars and other resources throughout the year to help agents manage and enhance their businesses.
Profile Updates
With the Accreditation tool, agencies can modify their business information, which is supplied to participating airlines.
Record Keeping
Agents can access their weekly sales activity with ARC’s IAR and ISS products, as well as view ticket details with DRS.
Memo Management
ARC gives agents access to its Memo Manager tool, which automates memo processing and payment between airlines and travel agencies.
A and C Travel has been an ARC participant for 25 years, because we feel safe, reliable and confident in running our travel business under ARC’s management and instruction. We are grateful for all that ARC has done for us over the years to help us become the successful travel agency we are today.
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