Global Distribution System

Today, about 190,000 travel agents book with approximately 600,000 terminals via the Global Distribution Systems (GDS), Amadeus, Galileo, Sabre and Worldspan. About this book four GDS companies and travel agencies, airline flights and hotel accommodation worldwide.

Detailed information about the four GDS companies,

Amadeus is the leading provider of Global Distribution Systems (GDS) used by the global travel and tourism industry in marketing, sales and logistics. The comprehensive center for the GDS data processing Amadeus provides 61 870 travel agency locations and more than 10,520 airline sales offices, are the total of more than 269,900 points of sale in over 200 markets worldwide. With Amadeus, travel agencies and airline sales offices bookings with 467 airlines that represent more than 95% of the seating capacity of scheduled flights to make. The system also allows access to 61,560 hotels, 48 car hire providers with about 24 400 stations, and other categories of providers, including ferries, trains, cruises, insurance and tours. Sabre Travel Network, a Sabre Holdings company, provides access to the world's leading global distribution system (GDS). brought together in 1960, Sabre was the first system, the buyers and sellers of travel. Sabre connects travel service providers - more than 400 airlines, 70,000 hotels, 37 car rental companies, nine cruise lines, 36 railroads and 232 tour operators - with 56,000 travel agencies worldwide. Sabre offers the most effective sales platform for service providers and travel agents real-time access to thousands of travel products of different vendors. Galileo is one of the leading electronic travel distribution systems in the world. At more than 44,000 locations in 116 countries today, travel agencies and tour operators are using the computer reservation system. About Galileo you have access to more than a billion of tariffs 470 airlines and the services of more than 57,000 hotels and 24 car rental companies. Worldspan is a leading travel technology companies with software solutions for travel suppliers, travel agencies, e-commerce sites and corporations worldwide. Worldspan links more than one of the fastest, most efficient and flexible networks and the latest computer technology 800 travel suppliers around the world and provides them with comprehensive electronic data services for a global customer base.