Travel Global Distribution System

 

What is Travel Global Distribution System?

A Travel GDS or Global Distribution System (GDS) can connect services, pricing, and bookings across all three travel sectors, particularly reservations in airlines, hotels, car rentals, and activities.

Traditionally, travel agencies relied on GDS for services, products, and rates to provide travel-related services to end-users. A GDS is capable of connecting services, fees, and reservations. It incorporates products and services from all three travel businesses, such as airline and hotel booking and car rentals. For air ticketing, travel GDS remains the dominant distribution channel.

The GlobalDistribution System, or GDS, has evolved into the backbone of the airline reservation engine and has gained a prominent position in the airline industry. Travel GDS systems facilitate transactions between travel agencies, DMCs, corporate agencies, and providers such as airlines, hotels, transfer providers, cruise lines, and sightseeing companies. Global distribution systems are consolidators/aggregators that offer travel booking and reservation software.  

Independent travel agents, internet agents, and travel agencies are increasingly relying on more sophisticated Travel GDS systems to get the best available travel and lodgings and pricing for their clients. Customers will be able to make real-time flight and hotel reservations through agents, and their research and bookings will be complete in minutes.

Travel GDS connects online booking software systems, B2B B2C portals, and metasearch engines in real-time. It is an aggregation and distribution platform. A travel agent can book flights, hotels, attractions, sightseeing, transfers, and car rental services using travel GDS software. Travel booking service comprises booking an airline ticket, a hotel room, and a car hire. The GDS system is the primary reservation tool, serving as a communication channel and a consolidator.

 

Major Travel GDS, Global Distribution System are:

Travelport Global Distribution System

Travelport is a traditional and online travel distribution system that empowers travel agencies that collaborate with airlines to book flights. Travelport is consists of the Apollo, Worldspan, and Galileo GDS systems. The Travelport network includes 400 airline partners who assist travel companies in increasing revenue, lowering costs, and reaching leisure and corporate travelers globally in every continent and channel.

 

Amadeus Global Distribution System

Amadeus GDS is the world's leading transaction processor in the travel and tourism industry. It develops a global network that links travel suppliers and travelers through a powerful platform. It is essentially a one-stop solution for fully automating a travel booking system. Once connected to your reservation system, the GDS will aggregate data such as availability and pricing. It's a low-cost solution to create and maintain your own personalized booking option with extensive information.

 

Sabre Global Distribution System

Sabre is a leading global distribution system for air, car rental, rail, hotel reservation, and tickets, with a broad range of software solutions. The Sabre Global Distribution System has a tremendous amount of valuable data that OTAs can leverage to present to customers. You can gain global access to more than 400 airlines, 750,000 hotel properties, 17 cruise lines, and 36 car rental brands through the Sabre travel marketplace.

 

Galileo Global Distribution System

Galileo is a successful CRS (Computer Reservation System) owned by Travelport. It is the world's largest provider of travel content and a technological leader, servicing travel companies all over the globe. The features of the global distribution system and partnership commitment have assisted the airline sector in lowering company operating costs while increasing revenue and efficiency. Galileo is a member of the International Air Transport Association, the Open Travel Alliance (OTA), and SITA.

 

Worldspan GDS

Worldspan is the technology leader in web-based travel e-commerce, providing solutions for all areas of the travel industry, with airline booking being their top emphasis. The global travel distribution and transaction are efficiently processed with the initial fares of the airline business, pricing, shopping, and the technology involved with the purchase of airline tickets. Worldspan helps travel companies enhance efficiency, cut costs, and generate revenue.

 

Why is the Global Distribution System Important To The Travel Industry?

Travel GDS systems provide information such as inventory, pricing, availability, and details in real-time, which minimizes the overall execution time per booking for travel agencies, resulting in increased sales and profitability.

Amadeus, Sabre, and Galileo are the three most effective and essential GDS systems worldwide, and all GDS professionals are well-versed in these platforms. A GDS system also gives travel agents access to travel data, allowing them to compare the rates and facilities that different airlines, car rentals, and hotels to find the best deal for their clients.

It enables a customer to access all of the details of hotel/car/airline deals via a customized booking management system. You also receive a user-friendly interface and an easy-to-maintain platform. Having a GDS system and an online presence is crucial in today's world for delivering competitive rates, services, and convenience. As a result, if a travel company has not yet established a GDS system, they must do so as soon as possible.

When developing a business, there are several factors that travel agencies and firms must consider, one of which is obtaining the correct set of tools. The Global Distribution System is one such tool. It offers a central reservation system with real-time access to hotel prices and availability pricing for airlines, rail, and rental car companies.

GDS has been serving the travel sector with reliability, security, speed, and accuracy to airlines, hotels, auto rentals, and bus tickets, among other things. It is critical for independent travel agencies who can gain hugely from being associated with one to increase the number of online reservations.

Global Distribution System integration provides a wide range of data solutions to assist airlines in effectively serving their customers and marketing themselves. It is a profitable and cost-effective distribution channel that enables carriers to broaden their market reach to leisure and corporate travel.

Travel agencies benefit hugely from GDS systems because they can provide their customers with real-time rates, inventory, discounts, rooms, and descriptions. In other words, global distribution systems act as intermediaries between travel product suppliers and travel retailers who sell tickets to the end-user.

 

Features of Travel GDS

Airline Ticket Booking

GDS booking software will be linked to the flight GDS through web services to get online flight inventory and publish it on the application's front end in a predefined UI/UX manner. When you select a specific flight search result, you will be sent to the payment gateway for booking confirmation and PNR generation. We provide flight GDS / White label API integration services to global travel companies.

 

Hotel Booking

The GDS gives instant, real-time access to hotel information. Every travel and hotel booking portal connected to GDS has access to room inventory and published rates/packages. With over 100,000 channels and 600,000 travel agents linked to the GDS system, this remains the most dependable system for a hotel's online market exposure. Allowing these agents to book your hotel rooms for their clients can significantly increase total bookings and revenue. Our developers have worked with major GDS providers and travel consolidators.

 

Car Booking

The travel GDS platform will scan the CRS (own inventory) and the API to discover the best available choice in a specific city based on the user's search. We design and develop complete car booking engines for travel agencies based on their needs. If you have a car rental website and a Car rental XML API, our team can help you integrate them. Integrating a car rental API into your travel website not only makes your Car Booking Engine more interactive but also specifies the travel portal.

 

Transfer Module

The transfer module connects to the transfer GDS and provides real-time inventory, availability, and pricing. B2C users / B2B agencies can book transfer deals.

 

Holiday Package

CMS-driven domestic and international vacation packages will be designed to meet the need of clients and connected via payment gateway or online form inquiry in the proposed travel portal development solution.

 

Bus Booking

Travel Portal software will search the CRS (own inventory) and API of Bus to find the best possible option available in a specific city based on the user's search. When you select one of the results, it will redirect to the payment gateway. Our bus reservation systems allow visitors to search for available bus seats and book tickets for their journey.

 

Travelopro's initiative to grow the travel industry through GDS

Travelopro is a leading Travel GDS Software company that creates and delivers world-class travel booking systems, including travel APIs and GDS connections. We provide reliable, end-to-end GDS integration and OTA solutions for any business model, including B2B, B2C, B2B2C, and others.

Our experts offer best-in-class GDS development and integration services, allowing you to efficiently manage and scale your travel business while reducing costs and increasing ROI. We develop B2B and B2C travel booking portals and integrate travel APIs for flights, hotels, car rentals, bus reservations, and vacation rental solutions.

We have been in the travel industry for many years and offer seamless and flexible travel portal development to our clients. Most importantly, we recommend GDS and travel API integration based on the requirements. Our developers have worked with major GDS providers and travel consolidators.

Our top-tier GDS software development experts have extensive experience developing web services such as custom websites, online booking engines, front-office systems for online travel agencies, and self-booking tools.

As GDS API providers for travel agencies, we integrate with travel portals for web-based booking engines, flight reservations, hotel reservations, cruises, tour packages, car rentals, and rail reservations. Our software connects to the database of travel suppliers via the Global Distribution System API, giving agents like you unfiltered access to booking information.

Our travel portal software is a full-fledged web-based online booking system designed with the growing business needs of travel management companies, destination management companies, travel aggregators, B2B B2C travel agencies, tour operators, and home-based travel agents in mind. We are the one-stop shop for travel website development and APIs for travel booking software.

We work with global startups and businesses of all sizes to develop, improve, and scale products across platforms by leveraging disruptive technologies in GDS API. We provide the most effective GDS XML/API integration solutions. Our solutions provide you with a sophisticated interface with the GDS that you have signed up with, whether it is Amadeus, Galileo, or Sabre. We also make it easier for you to manage your website and GDS rates.

Benefits of Travel GDS

·         Control of live inventory

·         Real-time pricing

·         Automatic content update

·         Multiple channels for distribution and utilization

·         Easy GDS connectivity

·         Receive bookings 24/7

·         Broaden your market reach

·         Widen your distribution network

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