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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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