List of GDS Systems

 

 

What is a Global Distribution System?

 

GDS is a worldwide "Global Distribution System" computerized reservation network used as a single point of access for accommodating airline seats, hotel rooms, rental cars, and other travel-related items by travel agents, online reservation sites, and large corporations. 

The global companies which offer global distribution systems are Amadeus, Galileo, Sabre, and Worldspan. They are owned and operated as joint ventures by major airlines, car rental companies, and hotel groups also called automated reservation systems (ARS) or computerized reservation systems (CRS).

FlightsLogic is a leading web development company, offering best-in-class online booking engines and travel portals development services with GDS Integration services for travel agencies of all sizes. We integrate the GDS system for travel agents, IATA, and non-IATA agents. GDS Integration solutions we offer for flights, hotels, cars, tours, cruises, OTA’s, etc.

FlightsLogic is specialized in integrating global distribution systems with all the major GDS providers, travel consolidators and integrate with Amadeus GDS, Travelport / Galileo GDS, Sabre GDS, Apollo GDS, Worldspan GDS, and Abacus GDS which allow access for reserving airline seats, hotel rooms, rental cars, and other travel sectors. 

FlightsLogic Global Distribution System helps you easily expand into the global market.  Our GDS Integration Service will help your travel company book thousands of airlines, hotel rooms, car rentals, and holidays online. FlightsLogic is a prominent Travel Portal Development Company offering GDS software solutions to the travel industry since its inception. 

We provide our clients with the best web design and development services along with the best GDS software services. Our GDS automated booking system can integrate your services, rates, and bookings to consolidate products and services across the travel ecosystem. Our developers deploy the best-in-class GDS development and integration services to help you meet your business needs. 

At FlightsLogic, we offer end-to-end GDS integration and online travel agency solutions for various business models like B2B, B2C, B2B2C, etc. Our developers deploy the industry-leading GDS development and integration services that would allow you to manage your travel business efficiently, reduce cost, and boost revenue. Our GDS software development experts are highly experienced in building web services such as booking engines, custom websites, front-office systems for travel agencies, and corporate self-booking tools.

 

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• Airlines Booking

• Hotel Booking

• Tours Management

• Travels Management

• Car and Cab Bookings

• Airport Transfers

• Cruise Booking

• Rail Ticketing

 

What are the major GDS systems?

 

 

There are several major global distribution systems that house and process the majority of data from hotels, airlines, and other distributors. These include Amadeus, Sabre, Galileo, Travelport, Worldspan, Apollo, and Pegasus.

However, there are many technology providers that help hotels tap into these GDSs and by extension the thousands of travel agents and travellers across the world.

 

Amadeus GDS

 

• Amadeus has been operating for over 30 years, building critical solutions to help airlines, hotels, railways, travel agencies, tour operators, and more to run their business and improve the travel experience.

• Amadeus has the biggest global footprint of any of the GDSs, with a potential reach to millions of guests. The company operates in over 190 markets and employs over 17,000 people.

 

Sabre GDS

 

• Sabre is a leading technology and data-driven solutions provider helping airlines, hotels and travel agencies grow their businesses and transform the traveler experience.

• Sabre is seen as a pioneer for online travel agencies, corporate booking tools, revenue management, and web and mobile itinerary tools, to name a few.

• Sabre Travel Network is its global business-to-business travel marketplace and consists primarily of the GDS and a broad set of solutions that integrate with the GDS.

• This marketplace is used by travel suppliers including 400 airlines, 175,000 hotels, 200 tour operators, 50 rail carriers, 40 car rental outlets, and 17 cruise lines.

 

Galileo GDS

 

• Galileo traces its roots back to 1971 when United Airlines created its first computerized central reservation system. Due to the high market penetration of the Sabre and Apollo systems, owned by American Airlines and United Airlines, respectively, Worldspan and Galileo were created by other airline groups in an attempt to gain market share in the computer reservation system market.

• The Galileo system was moved from Denver, Colorado, to the Worldspan data center in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2008, following the merger of Travelport and Worldspan (although they now share the same data center, they continue to be run as separate systems).

 

Travelport GDS

 

• Travelport GDS is one of the most sophisticated global distribution systems for travel domains that allows travel agents and companies to access travel inventory of hotels, flights, car rentals, holidays, and more. 

• FlightsLogic can connect your travel company with advanced travel API technologies. We provide GDS integration solutions that enable travel agents & operators to manage bookings and offers along with other functionalities.

• We provide Travelport GDS integration for airlines, hotel rooms, car rentals, and more services globally.

• Travelport has multiple APIs which offer content from various sources viz. Galileo XML Select, Galileo Web Services (GWS), and Travelport UAPI. With Universal API being the latest offering, Travelport Universal API is a consolidated content API, making it easy for both startup and enterprise Travel Businesses to build travel applications. 

• Travelport Universal API offers a range of multi-source content via a single API: air, hotel, car rental, and rail, making it easy to develop a desktop, web, or mobile end-to-end application, with an extensive array of features and functionality available.

 

Worldspan GDS

 

• Worldspan is a Travelport platform, and is the technology leader in web-based travel eCommerce, offering solutions for all facets of travel business online. As a leading GDS, Worldspan provides travel distribution, technologies, and services for thousands of travel companies worldwide, including travel agencies, corporations, travel suppliers, and travel websites.

• Worldspan transforms global travel distribution and transaction processing with industry-first fares, pricing, shopping and booking technologies, and a portfolio of interactive shopping tools that enable travel companies to reduce costs, increase productivity and build revenues.

 

Apollo GDS

 

• As a leading GDS, Apollo provides travel distribution, technologies, and services for thousands of travel companies worldwide, including travel agencies, corporations, travel suppliers, and travel websites.

• The Apollo reservation system was used by United Airlines until 2012 when it switched to SHARES, a system used by its former Continental Airlines subsidiary. Apollo is still used by Galileo International (now part of Travelport GDS) travel agency customers in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Japan.

 

Abacus GDS

 

• Abacus was founded in 1988 and became a leading provider of travel solutions and services in the Asia Pacific region.

• The company is headquartered in Singapore and owned by Sabre Holdings after Sabre acquired a full stake off 11 Asian airlines who were holding a majority share.

• Abacus serves more than 100,000 travel agents across the Asia-Pacific region’s 59 markets and has both global and uniquely local relationships with airlines and hotels, including the leading portfolio of low-cost content and Chinese airline content.

 

Pegasus GDS

 

• Pegasus strives to remove friction and create simplicity amidst an otherwise complicated environment. Pegasus Solutions pioneered the hospitality reservations industry.

• The company is a market leader in the electronic processing, management, distribution, sales, and marketing of hotel inventory, rates, and content across different sales channels to include direct bookings via hotels’ branded websites, voice, travel agents (GDS), OTAs, and metasearch partners.

 

Benefits of Global distribution systems:

 

• The Use of a Global distribution system shows a rise across corporate and leisure travelers

• GDS is highly effective in alluring 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.

• The GDSs enable the travel agents to make their travel services available to consumers globally where they might not otherwise be able to achieve efficient worldwide market penetration through direct marketing efforts.

• Booking through a Global distribution system is most preferable for corporate travel agents as a suitable reservation process for holidays, air, hotel, and rental cars.

• Travel agents can get a global platform for their business with strong market penetration

• The global distribution system is the base to enter into corporate clients across the world

• GDS is the ability to update the status of inventory in real-time.  Due to its real-time status update capability managers can view rates change and can easily alter price points or make special offers. Agents can view all the changes instantly and will be able to suggest the new updates and offer to clients without any interruption to make the deal.

• It's a wise decision to invest in a GDS. The system places your holiday booking services and inventories in front of huge clients without affecting your marketing budget.

• The unique selling point of GDS is that it Can provide the best rates to your guests, which no other system can provide.  Your guests can find packages that include a hotel stay, air travel, and car rental

 

Why Choose FlightsLogic?

 

 

As a travel technology company, we deliver custom travel software with B2B, B2C, corporate module, and white-label. Using the FlightsLogic booking engine platform, integration of FlightsLogic GDS XML API web services can directly be done to your website, allowing you to maintain your site’s identity and original design and branding. Travel booking software connected with Travelport UAPI is in great demand among global travel companies.

Our integrated Global Distribution System platform helps travel companies increase revenue, lower cost, and efficiently reach leisure and corporate travelers globally in every continent and channel. You can offer your customers the world online in a snapshot with quicker and easier access to all products.

With an integrated Global Distribution System, travel agencies and travel management companies can offer their inventory with more enhanced and wide selections of travel content for booking flights and hotels with real-time data and best offers. It maximizes business opportunities since it allows travel agents to service customers anytime. 

FlightsLogic provides Amadeus GDS integration for airlines, Hotel Rooms, and Car Rental XML API GDS Integration all over the world. We offer complete travel portal development that empowers companies to deliver a fully loaded online travel booking website that works beyond the expectations of the customers. 

By providing access to all Travel Agents with the most advanced online booking system for flights, hotels, car rentals, and holidays FlightsLogic enables travel agencies to help their clients in the travel marketplace. We have developed a number of portals and applications with Travelport GDS for businesses engaged in the travel industry.

FlightsLogic is a leading Travel Technology Company, which provides global distribution systems (GDS) and Integrates Galileo GDS API to a travel booking website. FlightsLogic works with the top GDS providers such as Galileo, Amadeus, Sabre & Travel port.

Our GDS is one of the best GDS systems available today for airline tickets. Most travel agents prefer Travelport GDS to access online travel inventory including airlines, hotels, and other value-added services. Travelport GDS processes the highest number of transactions every day. Travelport is the top-recommended travel solution for getting more exposure and distribution among travelers worldwide. Now GDS has become the largest GDS system and the largest travel content aggregator in the world.

GDS system is one of the most advanced global travel domain distribution systems. Global Distribution System provides powerful computer reservation software, top-line travel system, and web services XMLs for the travel industry worldwide

 

The Future of GDS System 

 

There is no doubt that global distribution systems will play an important role in the travel landscape for many years to come, but their traditional role is changing and is being challenged by all the changes taking place in the travel industry. 

Two important considerations impacting the role of GDS systems are the growth of online travel websites that offer price comparisons and the increased push from airlines and other travel service providers to encourage consumers to make bookings directly via their websites. 

For a considerable length of time, GDS has been serving the travel industry with authenticity, security, speed, and efficiency to airlines, hotels, car rentals, and many more. 

 

Significant Features Of GDS

 

• GDS is responsible for allocating real-time data related to the travel industry.

• Keeps the record of what the customer is looking for.

• GDS ensures more booking and allocation of tickets.

• Maintenance of sales records in terms of hotel or airline booking.

• Helps in maintaining strong administrative control for travel companies.