Why do travel companies need to have Galileo GDS integration for effective travel management solutions?

The business climate is rapidly changing these days. You’ve to keep in touch with the changes and act instantly to survive and be successful in the tumultuous travel industry today. With growing middle class and rising income levels, travel is set to soar high. Global distribution systems (GDS), which delivers rates, inventory, discounts, rooms, and descriptions of the many systems supported by GDS, have come to play a major role in the global travel industry. This system includes high-traffic portal travel sites and channels.

Galileo GDS

Travelport; leading provider of e-commerce solutions and distribution services to travel companies can help you with its global distribution system (GDS) which has three brands: Apollo, Galileo, and Worldspan. They help travel-service providers to search, choose, process and reserve itinerary and pricing options across numerous travel providers.

Galileo GDS is the masterpiece of Travelport. It’s classy global reservation, business management, and productivity system, used to book airlines, trains, hotel rooms, cruises, car rental, and so on. It’s a virtual gateway to enormous content options, accurate pricing capabilities, and highly useful booking tools.

This GDS connects buyers and sellers through various travel channels. It reduces costs for both the buyer and the seller. Being the harbinger of innovative airline software solutions revolution in the global market, and in the astonishing scenario of growing preference for air travel, Galileo provides airline data management solutions and data intelligence products for major International airlines. It facilitates passenger management, e-ticketing, and ground handling easy. Galileo Desktop facilitates online shopping, reservations, and business management systems. Its beauty is the travel agent can easily customize it according to his unique business requirements.

Galileo is environment-friendly and joins the fight against global warming by offering a Carbon Tracker which allows customers to calculate and analyze carbon dioxide emissions for all ground and air travel.

Galileo 360 Fares, a web-based fares management, and solutions platform, presents the current airfares and offers a solution for agency private fares. It ensures that the customer will get the lowest possible fare without having to rebook the lower classes of service.

Galileo GDS

Galileo allows users worldwide access to most major car rental companies’ inventories via a desktop software application, CarMaster. It connects the customer to car rental supplier’s system and gives information on current rates, availability, and confirmation details.

Galileo GDS is a boon to the travel agent as well as his/her customer.

Recently, Travelport introduces an app Smartpoint which evolves the Galileo Desktop with interactive technology to assist merchandising and upselling for ancillary services like excess baggage, in-flight meals, insurance, and cab bookings. This can be used by travel agents familiar with Galileo.

How travel portal solutions have helped agencies to expand globally?

The process of online bookings has many advantages. For both the travelers and the travel agencies, it saves time and effort. Therefore, the traditional practices like visiting the travel agent’s place to make flight reservations or any other related services are no more used. Leading agencies are going for travel web portal development with GDS Amadeus and APIs to set up B2C and B2B portals with online booking engines.