GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM

INTRODUCTION AND ADVANTAGES

ON GDS

PRESENTATION BY TO
AKHIL BINOY MR. MUKUNDA BG
AKHILJITH PS ASST. PROFESSOR
 INTRODUCTION

• Global Distribution System work together to exchange

for linking the buyer and sellers of tourism services.

• At later period of 1980s Central Reservation System

completes it development and it goes through the
development, merge and recombination, improves its
functions and evolves into GDS.
• Most famous GDS are
 Amadeus
 Sabre
 Worldspan
 Galileo
Is a network operated by a company that enables automated
transactions between third parties and booking agents in
order to provide travel related service to customers.
• GDS refers back to the reservation instrument journey
sellers use when making an Air, Lodge, Auto or any
other journey service bookings.
• it is the mature system of Central Reservation
System(CRS) which has been playing an important role
in tourism sectors.
• Through GDS, tourism organizations all over the world
can obtain plenty of travel associated information's
from Airlines, Hotels, Car rental companies and Tour
companies
 EVOLUTION OF GDS

• There is 3 stages of evolution of GDS; they are

 Airline Reservation System

 Computer Reservation System

 Global Distribution System

 MAIN FUNCTION OF GDS

• Reservations
• Management Information’s
• Back office Integration
• Request from agencies is relayed via GDS to airlines
which sends a message back
• Request is channeled through GDS, direct into airlines
own system and seat allocated at end of transaction.
 ADVANTAGES OF GDS

• Global publicity of the organization.

• B2B and B2C distribution
• Is the entry door to company hookers.
• Concentration on all journey groups independently of the
GDS.
• 24/7 journey agent access to your inventory.
• 24/7 journey agent entry to your fully discriptive and
multimedia content.