Airline Booking System with Amadeus GDS Integration
Online booking system has transformed the way in which the travel agencies used to conduct business. One of the important element in the online booking system is the airline booking system.Last decade has been great for online travel booking systems including airline booking system. In the present date of travel sales, where brick and mortar travel agent shops are losing importance and a new trend of bookings through online travel portals & airline booking systems, is developing very fast. This has created huge opportunity for travel technology companies to build great online booking systems (airline booking system, hotel booking system & holiday packages booking system) with Amadeus GDS integration. There are many benefits associated in the process of integration with Amadeus GDS system. Apart from cutting edge technology, the user engagement model, displaying the best pricing and offers are key points for any reservation system to succeed.
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Airline Booking System
The growth in the travel business is all time high. Growth in large destinations in Southern and Northern Europe exceeded expectations, and strong two-digit growth was reported by a large number of smaller destinations. Established source markets in Europe were the strongest contributors to the success of many destinations in the region. Data point to a rebound of short breaks on top of main holidays, backed by increased consumer spending power in key source markets. Additionally, long-haul markets support the positive performance of European destinations even further.
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Hotel Booking System
Airline booking system, commonly known as ARS, is generally considered to be the user side system for any airline or GDS. It consists of the exchange of data through the GDS system, which consolidates the worldwide airline data and share through unique web services API. This is an effective and efficient way of consolidating the global airlines availability and pricing, which is combined together with best GUI interface and published for end users on any airline reservation system (GDS based).
In online travel services marketing & sales, airline booking system is a part of comprehensive travel reservation system, which consist-off hotel reservation system, transfer system and sightseeing module. GDS system, which is known as global distribution system is the interface between a travel reservation system and the end airlines, because it consolidates the data including the availability and pricing. The end buyers can check the availability and do the booking, which in turn is forwarded to airlines console through GDS.
Advanced airline booking systems offer the features like oneway, roundtrip, multi-destinations all together. Thus also providing the end users the better deals / offers on every booking, they do. Most of the reservation systems are also offering the dynamic packages like airline + hotel, hotel + cars, hotels + holidays packages, clubbing the packages together. This helps the buyers to plan the travel in a better way.
Related: Amadeus GDS Web Services
Amadeus, Galileo / Travelport, Sabre and Abacus are among the top GDS systems available today. GDS consolidates the data for airlines, hotels, cars, packages and cruises. This consolidated data, is then shared to end travel reservation software / travel portals through their proprietary web services APIs.
Top Travel Technology
The 2014 Expedia / Egencia Mobile Index revealed that in addition to sending and receiving e-mails (72%), Malaysian travellers frequently use their devices to access social media (65%), take pictures and videos (61%), check maps and navigation apps (57%) and to check the weather (17%). Travel technology and mobile apps are thus playing great part in modern day travel.
Why travel portals and online booking software are going for merchant accounts and mcommerce way?
A merchant account is a specific bank account intended to hold funds, received from credit and debit card sales through online payment interfaces on B2C travel software and Travel POS. If you’ve ever used your card and actually wondered where the funds just disappeared to, they went into a merchant account. When a customer pays for booking travel products using credit or debit card, money from his account is immediately transferred to the travel agent’s merchant account. From there, money will be transferred out to a normal business bank account through a standard protocol.
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Author is a travel technology expert and has been involved in several travel portal development projects.
