Knowledge engineering GDS 600,000 Travel Agents use the GDS to find and book hotels & flights Used by IATA approved Travel Agents world wide 40,000 Internet Distribution Systems (IDS) may use GDS * Expedia, TraveloCity etc * IDS “May” pull content from GDS giving a single point of control for multiple channels This very powerful feature is however being depreciated as IDS opt for direct contracts with hotels Global Exposure!!
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GDS
600,000 Travel Agents use the GDS to find and book hotels & flightsUsed by IATA approved Travel Agents world wide
40,000 Internet Distribution Systems (IDS) may use GDS * Expedia, TraveloCity etc
* IDS “May” pull content from GDS giving a single point of control for multiple channels
This very powerful feature is however being depreciated as IDS opt for direct contracts with hotels
Global Exposure!!
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GDS
Started By American Airlines to let travel agents book flights (1964*)Worlds airlines joined. All system networked togetherExpanded to include hotels (1988 chains via Thisco switch)
The reservation is sent to the hotel. It is immediately available to the travel agent via the GDSand to the hotel via the GDS agent CRS (Generares and partner system (arcRes)
Travel agents search for hotels using asecure computer terminal connected to one of the 4 GDS channels- Amadeus – Galileo – Sabre – Worldspan
Each GDS displays your hotels current rates and availability
300 million reservation per month
1964* SABRE: Semi-Automated Business Resrch Environment. The larges non government database in the world
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GDS information is also available to display and book on 1,000’s of travel sites like Travelocity
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GDS NEWORK
GDS-CRS Rep Eg: Reserv, Unirez, Utell (Pegasus)Synix.. etc… and Genares
600,000 Travel Agents use the GDS to find and book hotels & flights
40,000 Internet Distribution Systems (IDS) may use GDS *
Interfaced to your back office management/accounting and front office reservation and web
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GDS BENEFITS
A Global Bookings Channel
Global Marketing – exposing you to the global travel market
Administration – manages rates on multiple channels - integrates with backoffice, front office
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GENARES GDS-CRS
Combining over 35 years of experience in the hospitality reservation technology industry, GENARES has developed the
first truly integrated third party central reservation system for
the twenty-first century
Complete open specification and interfaces
for 3rd party integration, using XML format
The youngest and fasting growing GDS integration company
Highly recommended by existing clients
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GENARES RECOMENDATIONS Hi Ian, GenaRes is one of the best GDS providers I’ve worked with within my 27 year in the industry! In over two years now, our volume of business percentage has grown through bookings via the GDS. I have been assigned my own support account manager and we have over the years established sucha great working relationship. She is always here for me and also when I’m out of the office she is thecontact person regarding any issues with loading rates, opening/closing the system etc. Although the property can control basically everything own their own through the easy GenaRes system; my accountmanager has always proven to be our second hand person.
This is what I call a great support team!! Thanks Ian and I’ll be on my way to Barbados to pick up that Rum Punch!! Call on me anytime and be well. Best Regards, Clayton C.ChanningReservations/Revenue Manager- flatotel.com646-756-7952
“Each element in the search-shop-buy triumvirate is undergoing a period of intense innovation, making each increasingly significant, yet interdependent. In fact, searching, shopping and buying – once distinct terms describing different behaviors – are blurring at a furious pace”. - Philip C. Wolf, President and CEO, PhoCusWright Inc.
AXSES is there. We have already integrated advertising with all phases of the shopping cycle. This gives you complete flexibility in revenue and marketing models; including any mix of transaction, commission and subscription.
Focus direct sales – facilitating distribution
Interactive advertising works! Travelers stay longer and use all options
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arcRes-GDS PACKAGE
Interactive advertising works! Travelers stay longer and use all options