Showing posts with label Sabre and Abacus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sabre and Abacus. Show all posts

Monday, 29 December 2014

Why Amadeus System is one of the most preferred GDS Systems today?



GDS Systems are one of the most preferred ways for travel management companies to connect to online travel contents, flights, hotels, cars, cruise, transfers, sightseeing and similar things.
Amadeus system is one of the leading GDS today. In only 20 years, Amadeus has become the largest global distribution system provider in the world. It had great reach to travel contents worldwide, in terms of buyers and sellers. It is a leading transaction processor for the global travel and tourism industry.
Amadeus system has all the core competencies and merits to succeed in the long run, not only because it’s a comprehensive travel management system, but also its diversity in aggregating the travel contents.  Over 90,000 travel agencies globally, use the Amadeus system. Amadeus is structured around two major competencies, GDS and travel IT solutions.
Amadeus as a technology provider for airlines have the below functionalities
  • In Inventory Management
  • Reservation process
  • PNR Generation
  • Passenger Profiling
Amadeus, which is a leading travel technology partner and transaction processor for the global travel and tourism industry, has also emerged as the technology provider of choice for the hotel booking platform in the MENA i.e. Middle East and North African region.
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Author is a travel technology expert and has been involved in several travel portal development projects.
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Monday, 22 December 2014

Amadeus GDS Integration for Top Travel Management Software



Travel agents across the world, are more and more using global distribution system (GDS). GDS systems are enabled to provide online travel data through a single source. Over the years, a more conventional way of calling the provider to confirm the booking, was used, which took considerable efforts and time per booking. Today, latest travel technologies from the leading consolidators (aggregators) including Amadeus, Galileo, Sabre and Worldspan have become popular among the travel services providers. Out of all, Amadeus GDS has emerged as the most preferred by travel agents around the world to make flights, hotels, car rentals, holiday packages, ferry, cruises or other travel services booking. The volume of the ticket bookings through Amadeus system such that all the leading airlines are actually connected with Amadeus GDS system.
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Apart from the generic travel contents, Amadeus GDS provides availability, pricing, details and online reservation module to travel agencies. Nowadays, travellers prefer a one-stop service, and request rich information to make a right decision. Information from the GDS system helps them to navigate, select and book, what they like. The travel agent has to provide detailed, real-time information to enable the consumer to choose an option that is suited to all his/her needs. Amadeus travel system just makes everything easy.
Amadeus had maintained its position as the global leader in travel technology and travel distribution solutions for tourism industry, by constantly introducing innovations. Set of solutions like e power suites, web services, APIs and other value added services, let client choose – what they like. Amadeus tools are built to deliver the professional travel booking solutions. It helps the agents to deliver comprehensive travel itineraries quickly and efficiently.
For travel technology companies also, Amadeus GDS is a top choice and companies can deliver the custom made solutions to travel agents. With great technical support, that it offers – things can be big for Amadeus.
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Author is a travel technology expert and has been involved in several travel portal development projects.
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Saturday, 20 December 2014

What is Global Distribution System – Amadeus, Galileo, Sabre?

In the present date of online sales, where physically existing travel agent shops / kiosks are losing importance and a new trend of bookings through online travel portals & airline reservation systems, is developing very fast. This has created huge opportunity for travel technology companies to build great online reservation systems (airline reservation system, hotel reservation system, & holiday packages reservation system) with top Global Distribution Systems. Apart from cutting edge technology, the user engagement model, displaying the vest pricing and offers are key points for any reservation system to succeed.




Amadeus, Galileo / Travelport, Sabre and Abacus are among the top global distribution systems available today. Global distribution systems consolidate 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.
Airline reservation 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 reservation 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 reservation 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.
Check below, if you would like to know more about top global distribution systems.
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Author is a travel technology expert and has been involved in several travel portal development projects.
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