GDS System, Global Distribution System – Amadeus, Galileo, Sabre, Travelport, WorldSpan

Global distribution system or GDS has become an eminent part of the travel portal development at present. Global distribution system or GDS is nothing but a network operated by a company to facilitate automatic transaction between third party and booking agents, resulting in providing the end-user with travel related services. GDS has the capability of linking service, rate and product and services related to the three different travel sectors. The three different travel sector are airline booking, hotel booking and car rental booking. These three sectors forms the eminent part of the Global Distribution system.

Global Distribution System

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Global Distribution System

Global Distribution System Integration

For handling the ever growing network of various online reservation systems, there are the global consolidators, which consolidate the global travel data from various airlines, hotel providers and car providers. Such a system that aggregates and distributes travel related information to end travel management companies, is called GDS System / Global Distribution System.

GDS System is a centralized reservation system used as an ultimate access point by different travel agents for reservations on different reservation systems. It is a computerized travel reservation system that provides automated transactions between Vendors and travel agents who in turn provide booking services to the travelers. GDS works in 3 sectors namely, airline reservations, hotel reservations and car rentals. A GDS system connects all of these three sectors and a huge share of worldwide travel bookings goes through GDS and other consolidators.

Hotel Reservation System

The major GDS systems are Amadeus, Sabre, Apollo, Galileo, Worldspan, Abacus and Infini. These have links to the airline’s database and provide all links to the travel agents who are the primary customers. Basically 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 combination services like flights plus hotels or hotels plus rental cars etc.

The association between single ARS – Airline Reservation System and the GDS is so advanced that the booking systems and the travel agents access availability and pricing information in real time. Whole process of searching and booking and generating the PNR, can be finished in in no time. In case of ARS, whenever a booking is made, a PNR is generated that contains all the journey details for that passenger. GDS also holds the entire data in that PNR, called user profiling whereas ARS contains PNR details for that passenger only related to that particular airline.

PROVAB TECHNOSOFT is an award winning travel software company, delivering B2B / B2C travel software, travel CRM, accounting software, car rental software and mobility solutions to global travel & hospitality companies. We work with over forty top travel aggregators, global distribution systems, channel managers and DMCs. With clear focus on technology‚ agile methodology and innovation, we ensure quality deliverables and speedy turnaround to develop and deliver scalable travel portals and booking engines.

Following are the key modules of our core booking engine –

• Core Booking Engine / IBE
• B2C Module
• B2B Module
• B2B2C / B2B2B Modules
• Secured Admin Console (3 Layered)
• Flight Booking
• Hotel Booking
• Car Rental
• Transfer Booking
• VISA Module
• Sightseeing Module
• DTH / Recharge Module
• Accounting System (Third Party Integration)
• Multiple Payment Gateway Integration
• Multiple Suppliers’ Integration APIs
• CRS Module for Directly Contracts
• Redistribution API / XML Out
• Multilingual
• Add offline travel bookings / Import PNR
• Distribute white labels
• Manage multiple branches
• BI reports
• CDN Installation