GDS system

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GDS System
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GDS System

• A Global Distribution System (GDS) is a database
  capable of storing and updating enormous
  information on the supply of a wide range of
  tourism products worldwide. GDSs offers the
  travel agents access , in real-time,
  availability, features and prices of flight
  tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, cruises, ferry
  reservations, trains and other services.
• By integrating the Global distribution system to
  their website, travel agencies can provide their
  customers to search and book travel products and
  services and issue tickets too.
• GDS System is a centralized reservation system
  used as an eventual access point by different
  travel agents for reservations on different
  reservation systems. It is a computerized travel
  reservation system that allows automated
  transactions between Vendors and travel agents
  who in turn allow booking services to the
  travelers.
• GDS works in three sectors namely, airline
  reservations, hotel reservations and car rentals.
  A GDS system connects all of these three sectors
  and a great share of worldwide travel bookings
  goes through GDS and other consolidators.
• The major GDS systems are Amadeus, Sabre, Apollo,
  Galileo, Worldspan and Abacus . These have links
  to the airline's database and give all links to
  the travel agents who are the primary customers.

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• Essentially it is a medium used by various travel
  agents to access the seats, rates and booking
  information related to different airlines. It
  connects various such reservation systems all
  together within a single entity and also connects
  them to various other GDS present so as to
  provide combinational services like flights plus
  hotels or hotels plus rental cars etc.
• Travel agencies are extremely assisted by GDS
  systems because they facilitate their customers
  rates, inventory, discounts, rooms, and
  descriptions on a real-time basis. In other
  words, global distribution systems are mediators
  between travel product suppliers and travel
  retailers who sell tickets to the final
  consumer. 
• Main features of GDS
• Report availability and prices of travel products
• Reserve user requests.
• Sale and ticketing
• Track sales (increase customers stay, change of
  flights, etc).
• Facilitates control management for travel
  agencies.

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Evolution of GDS

• The pattern of GDS in the travel industry can be
  seen in the 1950s as the traditional legacy
  business model which inter-operated between
  airline vendors. A computer reservation system
  (CRS), at the first stage, was used by the
  airline companies as an automated booking system,
  but later, travel agents were given access.
• CRS enabled travel agents to connect to different
  travel providers in a single system. At this
  stage, in addition to flights, hotels and car
  rentals were combined.
• CRS collected much strength by the late 80s being
  so favorable to both suppliers and distributors.
  In the 90s, computerized reservation systems of
  airlines were converted to global distribution
  systems (GDS).
• So we can see that GDS has developed from airline
  alliances and ended up becoming independent
  business units with product internationalization
  and introduction of new products, especially
  hotel rooms.

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GDS integration for travel agencies and suppliers

• Travel agencies must have a full approach to a
  global distribution system GDS. To get connected
  to a GDS, travel agencies require a contract.
  This will allow the travel agents to provide an
  astonishing amount of travel product rates and
  information to their customers, at the lowest
  possible rates.
• A sophisticated travel technology company can
  integrate any GDS to the computer reservation
  system or website of a travel agency. Its also
  demanding for the properties to be on a GDS.
• Travelers now go to travel portals to discover
  travel products. So hotels, car rentals, etc,
  have to be there to get Internet visibility and,
  thus, additional reservations.
• A GDS provides real-time connection to the
  inventory system of a hotel with the current
  prices, discounts, room types, facilities like
  Wi-Fi and different aspects of interest to the
  potential customer.

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• Owners can hire a perfect travel technology
  company to get access to the GDS of their choice.
  A property can be connected only to a single GDS
  provider. If the property owner needs to change
  the provider, he can cancel the existing provider
  and activate another with a switch letter.
• Flightslogic specializes in providing the
  client's Airline Reservation System and flight
  booking software and applications which is
  user-friendly, easy to use, and secure.
• Moreover, as a travel agent having a perceptive
  user interface will make more and more users or
  travelers visit your website. Flightslogic makes
  sure to use the most popular GDS such as Amadeus,
  Travelport.
• These are the most popular Flight booking engine
  API with secured data accessibility, easy
  inventory management, quick ticket reservation
  facilities.
• All kinds of flight booking systems are done by
  their experienced developers who make sure that
  you get a unified airline reservation system
  which surely meets your business requirements, at
  affordable rates. With their services small,
  medium airlines can enjoy entire reservations
  using a simple API.

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How does the Flightslogic GDS system work?

• Flightslogic is a global quality trusted by a lot
  for its services for worldwide GDS content, other
  products, and services in order to provide
  travel-related services to the end consumers.
• Flightslogic GDS automated reservation system can
  integrate your services, rates, and bookings
  consolidating products and services across all
  travel ecosystems.
• Flightslogic have partnered with the GDS system
  Globally are Flightslogic (Galileo, Apollo, and
  Worldspan), Amadeus and SABRE.
• GDS software developed by commonly allows the
  whole suite of services for the OTAs, ranging
  from passenger services systems (PSSs) to revenue
  management systems (RMS). The passenger name
  record (PNR) in the airline reservation system is
  continued in the GDS system.
• If a passenger books a path containing air
  segments of multiple airlines through a travel
  agency. the passenger name record in the GDS
  system would hold information on their full
  itinerary.

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• How much does it cost?
• To integrate GDS to your system, youll have to
  pay a one-time setup cost and pay a monthly
  charge of a little amount per reservation.
• How to handle the Cost of Travel Portal with GDS
  API Integration ?
• Before starting the development of a travel
  portal, you must be clear about the expenses you
  need to spend on setting up a portal. For an
  online travel agency, you will need a travel
  booking engine on your homepage.
• Whenever someone sees the portal, this engine
  gets connected with GDS API to display the
  real-time data on the front-end. The cost of a
  travel site with GDS API integration depends on
  certain factors.

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• Listed below are some of these important factors
  that should be taken into consideration. This is
  an era of dynamic technology, thats why it has
  been called a digital era. Technology is leading
  every sphere of human life and every sector in
  the commercial industry. Travel and tourism
  industry is no exception.
• The travel industry is also adopting technology
  to ride over the expanding competition. In fact,
  technology has become an integral part of the
  travel agencies to guide them survive in this
  highly competitive marketplace. You might be
  interested to know what the technology has
  brought for travel agencies.
• Well, technology has blessed the travel industry
  with travel portal development software. This is
  a computerized way of handling your online travel
  agency. To reap the benefits of technology, you
  need to integrate your portal with GDS API
  integration (Global Distribution System).
• Often people think that it would be a costly
  affair. But, this is not the truth all the time.
  You can get a cost-effective travel portal by GDS
  integration if you know the ways to integrate the
  travel portal software.

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Benefits of Global distribution systems

• Its a unique (and direct) marketing tool
• A global distribution system can be utilized to
  market your latest sales message, special offers,
  and discounts direct to travel agents.
• It improves search positioning
• Expanding to a GDS means that travel agents and
  consumers are more easily able to find your hotel
  during search

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• It has perfect timing
• The GDS exhibits your brand messaging and
  advertising during the search and booking
  process, which means travel agents are paying
  attention at exactly the right time. Messages can
  also be targeted at precise dates and times, by
  specific destinations.
• GDS is highly effective in alluring the
  international travelers. This is the reason why
  the use of GDS among travel agents is growing
  exponentially every year.
• OTAs have greatly improved the travel shopping
  experience and convenience for consumers and have
  increased pricing transparency.
• GDSs enable the retail travel agency and OTA
  business models.

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