Amadeus GDS chosen by travel agents as preferred Global Distribution System in Nigeria, South Africa and USA

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.

GDS system

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.

Regarding Author:

Author is a travel technology expert and has been involved in several travel portal development projects. 

How to Choose Top Travel Portal Development Company India

PROVAB TECHNOSOFT (provab.com) is a leading travel technology company, providing best in class travel software, to clients all over the world, by integrating the GDS systems and third-party consolidators. We execute both B2C and B2B types of travel portal development projects.

Travel Agency Software

Work Flow – B2C Mobule

• Customers visit the travel portal company home page.
• They select particulars (flight / hotel / car / packages).
• System connects to GDS / APIs and bring back the inventory details with availability and pricing.
• The customer selects appropriate deal.
• Customer proceed to next screen to provide his details / travellers details.
• System takes him to payment gateway to process the payment.
• PNR / Voucher is generated and confirmation email is sent to client at the same time.
• System also gives the option to print ticket same time or can be printed later through my account.

Travel Agency Software is a web-based travel booking system whch has proved to be a boon for the travel agencies worldwide. Online travel agency (OTA) is fundamentally the travel company, which uses a large chunk of the online processes for bookings.

Hiring the right travel technology company is a key.

• Total experience
• Global client base
• GDS / APIs connected with live certification.
• Payment Gateways
• Are they well-versed in B2C, B2B and Corporate modules.

To know more about us, please visit provab.com. You can call us at +91.8880321321 and email us at info@provab.com. 

What are the benefits of OTA travel technology solutions over direct booking system?

The key to successful usage of the direct booking strategy increases site’s customization to ensure that visitors have access to direct booking rewards when it means the most. When a website visitor comes directly from an Online Travel Agency (OTA), hotels have the opportunity to give a unique and special experience which makes them place the booking.

Online Travel Agency

There is no doubt that the reservation giants consolidate and display travel information related to pricing. The main problem for hoteliers is that these sites have a primary purpose of booking rooms than to please the travelers. OTA is the ideal choice to book quickly, but many forget the hidden benefits of booking directly with hotels.

If customers choose to search directly on the hotel website and book ahead, they will be looking for a personalized experience. Independent hotels can provide great flexibility regarding the choice of rooms available, re-booking and price negotiations. The hotel's agent knows the system inside and outside to provide the best recommendations for restaurants and local attractions and accommodation for guests. The marketing benefits of direct booking is not a new concept to travelers, but many hotels continue building on their own websites.

The key is to capture the attention of visitors quickly when they visit websites, by marketing the benefits of direct booking on the site, which are best for them. By understanding the interest of the visitors from their first visit to the site, many agents have been able to engage visitors to build the value of booking directly with third parties.

Direct Booking Website

Meanwhile, at least one travel agency prices jumped on OTA, the possibility of using the value to promote and decry OTA’s use of customers. Travel agencies are using data of the customers to provide customized services. OTAs that act as marketing organizations are not sustainable for long term. The brand message will be lost when consumers realize that there is no real advantage to use their products. If metasearch provides a superior products and best prices and operations are intuitive and smooth the sites through the party.

From a customer perspective, by an OTA reservation makes no difference, because they see the same speed in the hotel room, as they do in OTA. However, there are several additional benefits directly to consumers to get the booking, but consumers won't get these advantages, unless the hotel knows about the reservation.

Driving Traffic: OTA vs Direct Hotel Booking

One of the benefits of OTA which is little-known is that it really drives traffic to the hotel reservation website. According to a study by Google, 52% of travelers visit the hotel’s website and view the available room or space before they place the booking. Towards the end, using OTA for the first time or to quickly fill vacant rooms is worth the cost of the commission. However, the purpose is to display the required information to the website visitor and place the booking. It helps in balancing satisfaction and expectation level of the customer. In that case OTA acts fast than a direct booking website.