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A global distribution system (GDS) is a computerised network system owned or operated by a company that facilitate transactions between travel industry service providers, mainly airlines, hotels, car rental companies, and travel companies. The GDS mainly uses real-time inventory (e.g., number of hotel rooms available, number of flight seats available, or number of cars available) from the service suppliers. Travel companies traditionally depended on GDS for services, products and rates in order to provide travel-related services to the end consumers. Thus, a GDS can link services, rates and bookings develop products and services across all three travel sectors: i.e., airline reservations, hotel reservations, car rentals. – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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Global Distribution System
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Global Distribution System
  • A global distribution system (GDS) is a
    computerised network system owned or operated by
    a company that facilitate transactions between
    travel industry service providers, mainly
    airlines, hotels, car rental companies, and
    travel companies. The GDS mainly uses real-time
    inventory (e.g., number of hotel rooms available,
    number of flight seats available, or number of
    cars available) from the service suppliers.
  • Travel companies traditionally depended on GDS
    for services, products and rates in order to
    provide travel-related services to the end
    consumers.

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What is GDS in the hotel industry?
  • A GDS is a worldwide channel between travel
    bookers and suppliers, such as hotels and other
    accommodation providers. TripFro communicates
    live product, price and availability data to
    travel representatives and online booking
    engines, and allows for automated transactions.
  • The GDS is often used to tap into the corporate
    travel market because it has the capability to
    present hotels, flights, and car rentals in one
    simple interface which is convenient. Many
    companies organising trips for their staff will
    use the GDS as their approved booking method.

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How does a global distribution system work?
  • Global distribution systems are an intermediary
    between vendors, such as hotels and airlines, and
    service suppliers, such as online travel
    companies. While most big GDSs are linked to the
    major travel agencies, smaller, less costly GDSs
    may offer a limited amount of travel agencies.
  • Vendors sign up and link their own listing to a
    global distribution system. Once linked,
    customers can use the individual portals
    associated with the GDS to purchase from a
    vendor.

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What are the major GDS systems?
  • However, there are many technology providers that
    help hotels tap into these GDSs and by expansion
    the thousands of travel agents and travellers
    across the world.
  • Amadeus GDS
  • Sabre GDS
  • Galileo GDS
  • Worldspan GDS
  • Apollo GDS
  • Abacus GDS

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What is the importance of Global Distribution
Systems for hotels?
  • The GDS gives immediate, real-time access to a
    hotels information. Every major travel and
    hotel-booking portal linked to the GDS gets
    access to room inventory and published
    rates/packages. Travel agents connected to the
    GDS system this remains to be the most
    dependable system for a hotels publicity on the
    online market.
  • Amadeus, Sabre, Galileo and Worldspan networks
    available with TripFro give the right
    international exposure required to boost a
    hotels international distribution.

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How do you Integrate GDS into your Travel Website?
  • Every travel agent connecting them to all the
    travel industry information efficiently and
    efficiently. However, integrating a GDS system
    into your travel website can be costly as well as
    time-consuming. Several travel agents do not have
    the budget and time to invest in installing and
    understanding the GDS.
  • The easiest and most cost-effective method is to
    hire a SaaS platform like TripFro to integrate a
    GDS system in your current website or else create
    your entire travel online presence with their
    travel tech expertise.

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What Are the Benefits of Using GDS?
  • GDS will be the most important channel of
    distribution for airlines, hotels and car rental
    businesses. Here are a number of the major
    benefits of using GDS.
  • Effective in attracting international travelers
  • 24/7 access to inventory
  • Enables business models such as retail travel
    agency and OTA (Online Travel Agency)
  • Offer consumers increased pricing transparency

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What is CRS and GDS?
  • The primary function of a GDS is to assist travel
    agents who are looking for hotels that assure
    certain criteria. These business-to-business
    systems are used by organisations to keep beside
    of information about travel arrangements, like
    hotel room availability. TripFro provide
    customers to make bookings on demand. This
    technology offers travel professionals a common
    point of entry to access real-time data about
    travel reservations.
  • A central reservation system, or CRS, is designed
    for the hospitality sector and in particular
    for hotel operations to manage room opportunity
    and rates.

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Things to look out for when choosing a GDS
  • The size of the GDS Make sure that the GDS you
    choose has access to a large number of hotel
    listings. This will give you the greatest choice
    of hotels to book for your customers.
  • Functionality
  • Pricing
  • Commission-free structure
  • PMS Integration
  • No lengthy contracts
  • Comprehensive reporting

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Features of Global Distribution System
  • Coverage
  • 24 x7
  • Market Reach Online
  • Little Maintenance is Required
  • Enhance Coverage
  • Online Distribution Strategy

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Contact Us
  • For more details, Pls visit our website
  • https//www.tripfro.com/global-distribution-system
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