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    Advantages of Using GDS Specifically For Airlines, Tour Operators, and Travel Agencies

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    GDS networks like Travelport enable travel agencies and clients to access travel data, compare reservations options, and book travel. Using a GDS provides advantages like directly marketing sales and offers to travel agencies, broadening a company's global market reach, and giving travelers the best rates and package deals. Looking ahead, GDS will continue to be important reservation platforms but will modernize to support dynamic pricing, extensive product options, and high transaction volumes.

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    GDS networks like Travelport enable travel agencies and clients to access travel data, compare reservations options, and book travel. Using a GDS provides advantages like directly marketing sales and offers to travel agencies, broadening a company's global market reach, and giving travelers the best rates and package deals. Looking ahead, GDS will continue to be important reservation platforms but will modernize to support dynamic pricing, extensive product options, and high transaction volumes.

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    GDS networks like Travelport enable travel agencies and clients to access travel data, compare reservations options, and book travel. Using a GDS provides advantages like directly marketing sales and offers to travel agencies, broadening a company's global market reach, and giving travelers the best rates and package deals. Looking ahead, GDS will continue to be important reservation platforms but will modernize to support dynamic pricing, extensive product options, and high transaction volumes.

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    Advantages of using GDS specifically for airlines, tour operators, and travel

    agencies

    GDS is a network/platform that enables travel agencies and their clients to access travel
    data, shop for and compare reservations options and book travel. GDS networks like
    the system operated by Travelport generate billions of dollars in global travel sales.

    According to research these advantages of using GDS:

     A Global Distribution System can be used to market your latest sales message,
    special offers, and discounts to directly to travel agencies.
     GDS is extensively used to broaden the market reach. A single global travel
    distribution is connected through B2B, B2C, B2E, and B2B2C websites.
     OTAs have greatly improved the travel shopping experience and convenience for
    consumers and have increased pricing transparency.
     GDS is highly effective in alluring international travellers. This is the reason why
    using GDS among the travel agents is growing exponentially every year.
     Market penetration through direct marketing efforts.
     The use of global distribution system shows the rise across corporate and leisure
    travelers.
     The unique selling point of GDS is that it can provide the best rates to your
    guests, which no other systems can provide. Your guest can find packages that
    can include a hotel stay, air travel, and car rental.
     Global distribution system is the base to enter into corporate clients across the
    world.
     GDS enables the retail travel agency and OTA business model.
     Booking through GDS is most preferable for corporate travel agents as a suitable
    reservation process, holidays, air, hotel and rental cars.

    The future of GDS including trends and developments

    The Global Distribution System (GDS) has been a bulwark of airline operations for
    decades. GDS is a worldwide computerized reservation network used as a single point
    of access for reserving airline seats, hotel rooms, and rental cars by travel agents,
    online reservation sites and large corporations.

    For years GDS has provided an invaluable service to airline because of its security,
    reliability, speed and accuracy. GDS will be more flexible, robust commerce platforms
    built on contemporary software and architecture. The commerce platform that will
    support extensive fare and product transparency, dynamic pricing, rich basic and
    ancillary product merchandising and retailing, and the ability to reliably and securely
    process the massive volume of shopping sessions.

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