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Understanding the meaning and significance of GDS is very much significant for the travel agents. The travel industry is actually very big and vast that exploring it with the old tool and technique is not possible. With the traveller’s desire to explore whole world the travel agency also needs to be global. Getting the same concept of globalization GDS was introduced in the travel industry. The term GDS stands for Global Distribution System. It is a worldwide computer reservation network that is used by travel agents to favour the needs of the customers in hotel booking, flight booking, itinerary booking, rental cars and all other travel related services booking. The best part of GDS that has helped the travel agents in exploring their business is real time data that it fetches to them.

What GDS actually is? If this question is still unanswerable to you then here we are going to tell you about it in layman’s language. This is a network that works in between travel service providers and travel agencies. Terming it as a B2B networking would not be wrong. In the past the reservation system that was used by the travel agents was not that much effective. It was not only expensive but also could not bring the desired business for the agents. For an effectiveness in the business and to bring the business in the global platform the networking system of GDS api integration was introduced. The main aim of establishment of this technology is to distribute the real time travel related data from the travel service provider to the travel agents.

The significance of GDS for travel agents can be understood in a very beautiful way. Suppose you are a travel agent and you wish to get the maximum business for your travel agency. Now how this all is going to happen? Either you need to have a good network chain or you need to have GDS. With the aid of this distribution channel you will be able to get the real time reservation data from the travel service providers that are relevant for your business. For instance, if a traveller is looking for flight ticket from NYC to London and back, then this system will distribute the customer’s data to the flight companies operating from NYC to London and to London to NYC. And, in this way both the airlines will get benefitted in the same time with the real time data fetched by the GDS. The travel agents can explore their business much with adequate data provided by. The first and still the most prominent GDS is Amedeus CRS. Later on Galileo, Navitaire, TravelSky, Sabre and Worldspan were introduced.