The document discusses Global Distribution Systems (GDS) used in the travel industry, which allow travel agents to access, compare, and book various travel services in real-time. Key GDS systems mentioned include Amadeus, Sabre, Travelport, Galileo, and Apollo, each providing specific features for booking flights, hotels, and car rentals. Trawex is noted as a leading GDS integration company offering customizable solutions for travel agencies to access and manage inventory effectively.

1. GDS Booking Systems
Email id : contact@trawex.com
Phone No : 91485 87111

2. What is GDS Booking System?
• GDS Booking Systems is a network/platform that allows travel agencies and
their clients to access travel data, shop for and compare reservations
options and book travel.
• It collects inventory, schedules, and fares from providers and allows agents
and OTAs an opportunity to search and book them: using connectivity APIs
for OTAs and via a manual terminal for agents.
• Travel GDS provides real-time connections to online booking
software platforms, B2B B2C portals, and meta-search engines. It holds no
inventory, rather it is an aggregation and distribution platform.
• With GDS Booking Systems, a travel agent can book flights, hotels,
attractions, sightseeing, transfers, and car rental services.

3. Amadeus
• Amadeus is primarily used by travel agencies, to gain real-time access to
inventories and to book airline tickets, hotel rooms, car rentals, and other
travel products for their customers. Amadeus GDS, in turn, reduces costs,
gives commissions, and leaves a global experience of enhancement.
• Amadeus offers an interactive booking solution that allows users to book
flight seats online without having to connect with a travel agent.
Amadeus’s booking system covers the complete solution from initial
search to booking completion.
• Achieving an online reservation becomes easy with the Amadeus
Booking System. To book a flight, the customer simply needs to use the
Amadeus airline booking system. Integration of Amadeus Flights allows
linking to GDS Amadeus via XML API for online reservation of flight
tickets.

4. Sabre
• The Sabre GDS system connects travel service buyers and sellers. The
system is supported by 125,000 hotels and is linked to over 400,000 travel
agents worldwide who serve end users. Sabre is a global travel and
tourism technology solutions provider.
• Sabre provides a broad range of technology solutions including data-
driven business intelligence, mobile, distribution, and Software as a
Service (SaaS) solutions used by travel suppliers (airlines, hotels, car
rental outlets, railways, cruise lines, and tour operators) and travel buyers
(travel agencies, travel management companies and corporate travel
departments) to plan, market, sell, serve and operate their businesses.

5. Travelport
• It provides technology, distribution, API, application, and payment
solutions for the travel industry. Travelport owns Galileo, Worldspan,
and Apollo GDS systems. The GDS system allows hotel owners and
other travel businesses to distribute their inventory to travel agencies
worldwide.
• Worldspan as a part of Travelport GDS distributes travel information, e-
commerce capabilities, and internet products for travel agencies,
corporations, and travel providers. This GDS is used by travel agencies
to book air tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, packages, and other
services, and it also provides product solutions and IT services to major
airlines.

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

7. Apollo
• Apollo is a leading global distribution system that offers travel
technologies and solutions to travel agencies, websites, suppliers,
and corporations. The GDS provides real-time status updates to
travel agencies, allowing them to create customized packages and
special offers.
• This is used by thousands of travel agents globally to book airline
tickets and hotel booking. This is the cost-effective way to book air
tickets and hotel accommodation for the customers who are
availing of your tour packages.

8. How GDS Booking Systems Works?
• GDS Booking Systems works in three sectors namely, airline
bookings, hotel bookings, and car rentals. A GDS system connects all of
these three sectors and a great share of worldwide travel bookings goes
through GDS and other consolidators.
• Trawex is a leading GDS integration and airline booking system
development company that helps you with 100% customizable and cost-
effective prebuilt solutions for the GDS Integration of your choice. Our
technology enables hotels to sell their rooms simultaneously through all
GDS systems: Amadeus, Sabre, Travelport, Galileo, and Worldspan.

9. • A GDS combines bookings, rates, and consolidating services and products
across all the travel sectors. It is also responsible for the growth of the
travel sector. We integrate GDS booking systems for travel agents, IATA,
and non-IATA agents. The majority of travel companies rely entirely on
GDS for real-time database access.
• The GDS enables travel companies to collect data on airline, hotel room
availability, ticket availability in other modes of transportation such as bus
or car, and fare, etc. Through API integration along with GDS systems such
as Amadeus, Sabre, Galileo in the booking engine it is possible to access
data from several suppliers.
• As a leading GDS integration company, we work on GDS systems and low-
cost carriers to provide our clients with a comprehensive flight booking
system.

10. • Our GDS Booking Systems provides integration services with Amadeus,
Galileo, Sabre, and Worldspan GDS include with XML, API, and Payment
integration. It helps travel agencies/companies to access travel data,
compares reservations options, and book travel.
• GDS Booking Systems supports the booking and ticketing of automatic
tickets. GDS booking systems offer the technology that maintains the travel
business going. GDS system always plays a vital role in the travel portal.
• A GDS provides data in real-time, allowing agents to determine which
flights, accommodations, or other services best suit their clients’ needs in
seconds. And, because GDSs have expanded to other travel services, the
entire combination (i.e. flight, hotel, car) can be purchased on one
platform, eliminating the hassle of booking each component individually.

11. Here are some significant benefits
 Control of live inventory
 Easy connectivity
 There will be Real-time pricing
 Content will Automatically update
 It will have multiple channels for distribution and utilization
 Customers stay on your site while booking

12. The Importance of GDS Booking Systems to Travel Agents
• A global distribution system (GDS) is a computerized network that
facilitates transactions and networking between travel service providers
and travel agents. A GDS system also enables travel agents to connect
directly to airlines or hotels.
• A GDS Booking System also gives travel agents access to travel data that
will help them compare prices and facilities that different airlines, car
rentals, and hotels offer to ensure that they come up with the best deal
for their clients.
• Independent travel agents, online agents, and travel agencies now use
increasingly more sophisticated GDS Booking Systems to search for the
best available travel and accommodations and rates for their clients.

13. • Agents will make real-time airline and hotel reservations for clients,
and their research and bookings will take minutes. It helps in the
management of airline inventory and airline consolidation for
international airlines.
• The Global Distribution System (GDS) will help your business stay
ahead of the competition and grow steadily in the travel industry. GDS
is considered the primary reservation tool for travel agents. It is the
fundamental aspect of supplying travel products to distributors.
• Integrating GDS into your website will provide you with secure real-
time pricing connectivity, multiple channels for provider supply, and
content auto-update. GDS Booking System also helps travel agents in
revenue generation and business management.

14. • Additional features of our GDS Integration provide access to data to visit
agents, customers, and travel agencies. Travel agents can easily expand
their reach to corporate or even international travelers with a wider range
of offerings. The increased range can bring in more profitable business for
the travel agents.
• GDS Booking Systems are now used by a large number of travel agencies
to book flights and hotel reservations. Our GDS XML/API
Integration service will help your travel company to book an unlimited
number of airline tickets and hotel rooms online.
• Travel agents or agencies use the GDS booking system to search for the
best option in terms of travel, hotel accommodations.

15. • GDS booking system also supports the travel websites like
Booking.com, Trip Advisor, etc.
• GDS provides important features such as flights and hotels searches,
availability, connectivity, policies, etc.
• Travel agents/agencies now use more sophisticated GDS systems to
search for the best available option be it an airline or hotel
reservations.
• With the help of the GDS booking system, travel agents/ agencies can
complete their search and book within minutes.

16. GDS Hotel Booking System
• The GDS provides instant, real-time access to a hotel’s information. Every
major travel and hotel booking portal that is linked to the GDS has access
to room inventory and published rates/packages. With over 100,000
portals and 600,000 travel agents connected to the GDS booking system,
this remains to be the most dependable system for a hotel’s exposure on
the online market.
• Through seamless GDS connectivity, your hotel can maintain and update
availability, rates, and hotel information in real-time to all GDS channels,
which is integrated with your property management system, website
booking engine, or destination management system via an XML
interface.

17. • Trawex utilizes the most advanced technology to ensure the hotel’s
GDS distribution is next-generation seamless, meaning that travel
agents can access accurate and up-to-date hotel information instantly
at any time.
• Hotel prices and availability can be defined instantly. These updates
are shared across the GDS network in real-time
• All bookings made through GDS platforms are visible on the Trawex
Front desk. It eliminates the need for manual updates and checks.
• Travel agents get access to your updated room rate and availability,
amenities, photos, and more as defined by you in the system.

18. GDS Flight Booking
• Trawex can integrate with top Global Distribution Systems (GDS),
Flight Consolidators, and single-source API suppliers for your flight
booking and ticketing requirements. It is best suited for travel
agents, OTA, and tour operations, and travel management
companies.
• GDS integration provides long-term contracts with hundreds of top
airlines to meet the needs of travelers. It facilitates easy access to a
wide range of travel offers. The most reliable travel portals use a
flight booking system enabled with GDS integration.

19. Features of GDS Booking Systems
 Flight XML API Integration
 Hotel XML API Integration
 Bus API Integration
 Car API Integration
 Manage Holiday packages
 Booking Management module
 Payment Gateway Integration
 Agent Login
 Customer Login
 Agent Registration
 Markup Management module
 Discount Management module

20.  User Management module
 Quick View Booking
 It has access to both B2B and B2C
 Purchase preferred seat and other services from GDS
 You can expand your coverage easily with travel agents and agencies
through GDS
 There will be a Single window Interface and easy to connect to
 GDS targets all travel agencies and agents effectively with best fares
and commissions
 It’s easy to maintain information with GDS
 An opening inventory to new distribution channels
 24*7 real-time access to a vast global inventory of hotel rooms, cars,
airlines, buses, tours, and other travel-related items.

21. The Future of GDS Booking Systems
• GDS system may become more of a “direct corporate booking tool”
instead of a system used exclusively by travel management companies.
• The primary function of a global distribution system is to help travel
agents search for hotel accommodations that fit a set of criteria. It is a B2B
system used by companies to stay on top of real-time data about the
availability of travel arrangements, such as hotel rooms, to sell them to
customers planning to travel.
• For years, GDS has been serving the travel industry with reliability,
security, speed, and accuracy to airlines, hotels, car rentals, bus tickets,
and many more.

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Phone No : 91485 87111