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KembaraXtra – Travel Terms: adoption rate
​The proportion of travellers or bookers within a corporate organization who follow an agreed corporate travel policy or adopt a self-booking tool. The entry notes that the word “rate” can misleadingly imply speed, but in practice it is a proportion, and it comments that “compliance” is often used for policy adherence; it also notes the term may be used more generally in travel contexts.
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KembaraXtra – Travel Terms: ADP
Automatic Data Processing, a broad term in theory for any automated processing, but commonly used for punched-card and similar systems, contrasted with EDP (Electronic Data Processing).


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KembaraXtra – Travel Terms: ADR
​ ADR may mean (1)
advisory route (aviation) or (2) Average Daily Rate (hotel), typically calculated by dividing daily room income by the number of rooms available; however, the entry notes inconsistency, as some organizations use total hotel revenue and others use only occupied rooms, producing a revenue-per-occupied-room figure.


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KembaraXtra – Travel Terms: ADS
ADS may mean (1) Agency Data Systems, identified as a US market leader (with a direction to see Sabre), (2) automatic dependent surveillance (aviation), or (3) Alternative Distribution System 
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KembaraXtra – Travel Terms: ADS-B
ADS-B refers to broadcast-based surveillance (“ADS broadcast”) used in modern aviation tracking.
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KembaraXtra – Travel Terms: AD75
Under IATA Resolution 880, each appointed IATA agency may receive up to two 75% discounted tickets per calendar year from each IATA airline. Eligibility is normally limited to full-time employees directly involved in selling travel who have worked for the IATA agency for 12 continuous months, and staff eligibility lists are meant to be maintained in each country; similarly ARC and IATAN maintain lists in the US. The entry adds that in the US “agent” often refers to an individual person, so lists record eligible people rather than businesses, and the discounted fares may also be known as PEP (Product Experience Program) fares.
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KembaraXtra – Travel Terms: ADSL
Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line converts standard copper telephone lines into high-speed digital lines; the entry notes this is especially valuable to the travel industry and that in the UK such services are commonly referred to as broadband.
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KembaraXtra – Travel Terms: ADT
ADT may refer to Alaska Daylight Time, Atlantic Daylight Time, or Approved departure time in air travel.
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