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How To Connect Your Hotel To Galileo GDS?

 

Travelopro global distribution system (GDS) serves as a network for allowing service providers in the travel industry to carry out transactions. The systems are almost exclusively used by travel agencies or similar companies, to access real-time information about hotel room availability, airline ticket availability and similar products.

Our travel agents then use this to book products or services for their customers. Our GDS system remains one of the most important distribution channels for those in the hotel industry because it provides opportunities for global reach and can increase the number of hotel room bookings generated, resulting in larger revenue.

Travelopro is a leading travel technology company based in India. We merge global distribution systems including Galileo GDS to travel agencies globally.

Our widely using travel software includes a flight reservation system, a hotel booking system, a car reservation system, and an insurance module.

Travelopro is known as one of the best Galileo Booking System and Software Development Company in India. We provide development, consulting for all the aspects of B2B & B2C Galileo GDS / Travelport GDS / Galileo API Integration.

Our Galileo software includes a reservation system for booking of the airline, hotel, travel packages, and Galileo CRS system.

Galileo is a computer reservation system (CRS) owned by Travelport. Online Booking Engine by Travelopro is the best solution for Galileo API integration or Travelport UAPI integration.

As of 2002, Galileo had a 26.4% share of worldwide CRS air bookings in addition to airline reservations, the Galileo CRS is also used to book train travel, car rental, and hotel rooms.

The Galileo system was moved from Denver, Colorado, to the Worldspan datacenter in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 28, 2008, following the 2007 merger of Travelport and Worldspan Galileo.

Our Galileo is a member of the International Air Transport Association, of the Open Travel Alliance and SITA. For hotel owners, the primary benefit of the Galileo GDS system is the ability to distribute hotel rooms to travel agencies and customers on a global scale.

This is achieved by providing travel agents with 24-hour live access to inventories and pricing information, allowing them to book rooms at the hotel for their customers.

Travelopro is a global, broad-based business services provider that serves companies in every segment of the travel industry.

Travelopro powers the travel industry on a global scale by connecting buyers and sellers through an agency, online and corporate travel channels as one of the world’s largest distributors, a leading provider of critical transaction processing solutions, and travel content aggregators.

Travelopro is predominantly a global distribution system (GDS) business, which operates in approximately 170 countries and includes the internationally recognized Worldspan and Galileo GDS platforms. It has a worldwide market share of 22%.

The competitive strength of Galileo includes highly skilled personnel, well-balanced and global presence, technologically advanced information systems, relationships with diverse groups of travel vendors, market share, and a stable product line.

If we compared it with other GDS companies, when it comes to technology Galileo is a cautious follower.

As a result of the growing demand of web-based travel, the company has established successful relationships with entities such as Go, UK’s best low-cost airline; subsidiaries such as High wire, Inc., providing Internet-based tools and services to the corporate travel market; and shepherd Systems, an industry leader in the provision of sales and marketing intelligence systems and services within the travel industry.

To the THOR Worldwide Negotiated Hotel Rates Program, our Galileo has a sponsored membership. And it has an online real-time portal that supplying information and systems support to travel agencies operating more than 178,000 computer terminals, all of which are linked to the Galileo’s Data Center.

Galileo is following a strategy that includes expanding, strengthening customer loyalty, global distribution, leveraging technology, and taking advantage of opportunities created by increasing Internet use.

Galileo sees the GDS industry as having the ability and potential to provide electronic distribution and many components of e-commerce to other industries and is utilizing its strengths to provide expanding services to its growing customer base. Our Galileo International is a diversified, global technology leader.

Through a computerized reservation system, its core business is providing electronic global distribution services for the travel industry, leading-edge products, and innovative Internet-based solutions. 

 

 

Our Galileo is an outstanding and value-added distributor of the travel industry and is very dedicated to supporting its travel agencies and corporate customers. By updating them, Galileo can expand its traveler choice.

Our Galileo system commands a leadership position in airline software and connected to almost all the leading airlines. For connecting the core databases this provides solutions to travel agencies by offering desktop solutions (search & book) and web services XML.

Galileo GDS offers flights, hotels, cars, cruise, and holiday packages among others. Our Galileo GDS gives you access to a world of content and functionality through web services APIs and desktop connection. For an efficient and low-risk implementation, it’s designed to run alongside your existing API solutions.

Our Galileo GDS will provide you ingress to high-speed rail providers, worldwide low-cost carriers, and multi-source content via a single API can help you clear the mess of multiple programming interfaces, while saving valuable time and money.

The most common process for connecting a hotel to our Galileo GDS is to go through our websites; you will then connect the hotel to all major global distribution systems at the same time.

Numerous companies offer this. Most GDS providers have connections with property management systems or hotel channel managers.

As a result, hotels have the potential to fully automate GDS system usage, and also to manage their listings – including their hotel description, list of facilities and photos – all from a single location. Galileo GDS forms part of Travelport and is regarded as one of the 3 major global distribution systems (GDS).

These systems are used to connect hotels with travel agents, who can use access to real-time inventories to sell hotel rooms to their customers. This can expand the reach a hotel has, resulting in a greater number of bookings.

Apollo was the first computerized central reservation system created by United Airlines. A significant proportion of airline tickets were sold by travel agents during the 1980s and early 1990s.

Flights by the airline owning the reservation system had a preferential display on the computer screen. In an attempt to gain market share in the computer reservation system market, airlines created Worldspan and Galileo.

And by inference, the commercial airline market due to the high market penetration of the Sabre and Apollo systems, owned by American Airlines and United Airlines, respectively.

Nine European carriers are the forces behind the formation of Galileo in 1987-- Swissair, British Airways, Olympic, Sabena, Alitalia, Austrian Airlines, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Air Portugal, and Aer Lingus were those carriers.

United Airlines spun off its Apollo reservation system, which was then controlled by Covia in response and to prevent possible government intervention.

At the time of Covia acquired Europe's Galileo and merged it with the Apollo system in 1992, Galileo International was born. The Apollo reservation system has been used till March 3, 2012, by united airlines, when it switched to SHARES, a system used by its former Continental Airlines subsidiary.

Apollo is still used by Galileo International travel agency customers in the U.S, Mexico, Canada, and Japan. Galileo UK was originally created from Travicom which the world’s first multi-access reservations system was using the technology developed by Videcom. Travicom was a company launched by Videcom, British Airways, British Caledonian and CCL in 1976 and in 1988, it became Galileo UK.

Travelopro and its Galileo GDS are just one of the major global distribution systems available to those within the travel industry. This system will help you to reduce the cost of support, cost of development, and the cost incurred by the hardware and telecommunication system.

Our expert team of developers will deliver integrated XML solutions to seamlessly combine with the existing solutions. In fact, Galileo plays a commanding role in airline software. Sabre GDS is a global distribution system that can be traced back to the 1960s.

It is based in the United States, and it is estimated to serve around 60,000 travel agencies around the world. However, it is regarded as being especially strong within the North American market.

It is estimated that Sabre currently has a total market share of around 35 percent. The system also attracts a larger proportion of hotel bookings than its main rivals in the travel industry.

Our Amadeus platform is recognized as the largest GDS system in the world, as measured by total market share, with around 40 percent of travel agency bookings going through its network.

The system was established in 1987 and it puts travel agents in connection with hotel rooms, airline tickets, and various other travel services.

Amadeus’ company headquarters is located in Spain, and its central database is housed in Germany. As a result, it is considered to be the strongest global distribution system within the European market.

Through our Galileo API, domestic & international ticket booking of our Web-based application will be linked to the Galileo flight reservation system. It is used to fetch the online inventory on Air Tickets from the backend and to publish it on the front-end of the application in GUI format.

Hotel Booking System in Our Application will search on the Hotels from the Galileo GDS system of Galileo Hotel and will find out the lowest tariffs available with hotels.

On the selection of a particular hotel, it will be redirected to the payment gateway for payment processing. A car booking facility in our application will search the Galileo GDS and will find out the best possible option available in a particular city as per the search by the user.

According to the client requirement, we are providing global holiday packages driven by CMS and will be connected through the payment gateway. We can book our bus through our application. It will search the Galileo API of Bus and will find out the best possible option available in a particular city as per the search by the user.

Forex (Foreign Money Exchange): This is an application that will be designed for the admin to put the latest rates of currencies, on what price they can purchase and sale, etc. It can be processed through the payment gateway if somebody wants to make the payment through credit card.

Payment Gateway Integration is through the online payment gateway and it will be integrated to make the online payments by the customer. Online Payment can be through Credit Card or the Net Banking System.

On SMS Gateway, SMS API will be incorporated to send the SMS to the client at the time of confirmation of booking or PNR creation.

The login facility will be given to the agents to add funds in their accounts with a certain cutoff limit. By logging in on the portal, within the cut off limits and deposit amount agents can book the Air tickets and hotel deals.

And if they will reach their cutoff limit, they will not be able to book tickets and rooms from their deposit account. Then they can book by using their credit cards.

Agents will get the different options i.e. to create sub-users, check different types of reports of bookings, check the booking status, can cancel the booking (if available with API), can check the vouchers and Invoices, and commission generated.

Some of the features regarding Galileo Global Distribution System are: Travel agents can book and issue the tickets directly; Galileo paved its way in the fields of airlines, hotels, cars, tourism, cruise, etc. serves tour operators, travel companies, hospitality agents, tourism agents etc. and Galileo has developed an online search tool called ASK travel port where registered users can go and find out the answers to their frequently asked questions and queries.

It is also one of the most sophisticated global distribution systems for the travel domain. Galileo GDS provides global distribution services for the travel industry with advanced computer reservation software, top of the line travel system and web services XMLs.

B2B and B2C travel software with Galileo distribution systems are surging in India, Mexico, Europe, South Africa, United States, and Malaysia.

Our user login facility will be given to the users for a corporate account to see our previous bookings and new offers. The design for the Administrative Control Panel will be in a web form format.

Unlike others, the Administrator can view the reports of the different bookings on Air and Hotels by the visitors, the detailed report on different bookings of Air and Hotels by agents.

Our Administrator will find the daily report of the agent, airline and agent wise, monthly report and accordingly and he is fixing the percentage to be offered to an agent and accounts part he can generate the bills for the customers.

Our dedicated teams of Galileo developers are doing aggressive works on software development for the clients and to end customers.

They are merging all the portals into a single one to access and to get more attention on the portals. With the help of our developers, we take your travel services to a unique and distinctive marketplace where you can meet potential clients from all over the world.

Also, our team of Travelopro Galileo developers will help you to identify your business opportunities and improve it across the Galileo marketplace. By adopting Galileo GDS to your travel business will let you gain performance review reports.

Our expert developers provide a set of solutions; e-power suits, web services, APIs and several other value-added services. The expert development team works in tandem with your travel agency to deliver comprehensive travel portal solutions efficiently and effectively.

By utilizing their expertise in XML live certification process, user/sub-user modules and web service integration our developers provide top-notch solutions.

You can take advantage of our system at any point whether you already have a travel website or an internal booking application.

The only difference being the vast resources and simplicity of integration that instantly become available throughout your distribution network is by considering this just like adding a single supplier to the system.

Definitely, we will help you both automate the processes within the organization, and save precious time on development. Achieving maximum results in a short time is your competitive technological edge integrating with Travelopro API’s allows you to have full control of user interface you choose to use.

We will have plenty of space for your imagination on how the next generation’s booking system should look like this if you are a consumer having a b2b brand.

Across all product categories, and extends the tremendous time and cost savings to travel companies looking to develop their own applications, our Travel APIs & Booking engine serves as a single point of access to numerous resources. Our API integration services help you integrate inventory with other third-party applications.

 

What Are The Benefits Of Galileo GDS?

 

 

Even from a wide range of third-party sources, we can consume data. Travelopro has a lot of experience working with demand-side platforms that integrate popular GDS / Consolidator APIs including Amadeus / Travelport Galileo, Sabre, etc.

Our GDS system includes the handling of the ever-growing network of various online reservation systems; there are the global consolidators, which consolidate the global travel data from various airlines, hotel providers and car providers.

Our system that consumes and distributes travel related information to end travel management companies.

Our centralized reservation system used as an ultimate access point by different travel agents for reservations on different reservation systems.

An easy transaction can be carried out with the fully automated travel reservation system that provides automated transactions between Vendors and travel agents who in turn provide booking services to the travelers.

GDS works, airline reservations, hotel reservations, and car rentals, only. A huge share of worldwide travel bookings goes through GDS and other consolidators a GDS system connects all of these three sectors.

Travelopro is global technology dealing in the various travel solutions. Our GDS is one of the key services that it offers to its clients. In order to understand the GDS a bit better, we would like to give you a bit of insight about how it came into existence.

In the early days of aviation, the airlines did not fly regularly, because of a few passenger’s ticket fares were regulated by the Civil Aeronautics Board. All information about schedules, fares, flight etc. was made reachable in the Official Airline Guide and travel agents requested reservations by phone or telex.

As the number of passengers began to grow, this manual approach could not cope and hence created a need for the up gradation of the ticketing system.

The very first automated booking system was set up by American Airlines in 1946 and was called Electromechanical Reservoir.

American Airlines introduced a bit complex reservation system in 1953 by launching SABRE (Semi-Automatic Business Research Environment).

Then came into existence DATAS, PARS, before CRS introduced and for the first-time travel agents, were allowed to make the reservations themselves. When introduced GDS instead of CRS, it was able to handle details from one to multiple airlines.

Before the system had a limitation where it could handle the flight details from one airline only hence in 1980. Even if the travel agents have the option to acquire information and fare lists from the GDS, still passengers need an agent to confirm the bookings. The passengers haven’t any option to access directly.

Thus, it created a new need where the airlines should provide a direct access to book tickets by the passengers; hence Internet Booking Engines (IBEs) were introduced. I.e. the Global Distribution System serve as a central system that allows transactions between various travel services provides travel agents, rental services, airlines, hotels etc.

It helps to sell and buy various travel services online through some channels. Travel agencies can easily contact any GDS now to acquire its services and sign a legal bond on payments and get to access to various services that it can offer to end users keeping their commission set on each booking.

 

Advantages of integrating Galileo GDS: 

 

• The travel agents / tour operators can reach maximum number of buyers or travel partners and travel distributors

• Increase in  the revenue

• Increase in efficiency

• Lower operating cost

• Increase in productivity

• Expand your reach with solutions for your channels of choice

• Maximize the point of sale

• Customised innovative solution for each travel advisor

• Allows to capture new arketing opportunity

• Real time access to inventory and contents