GDS / API Integration - Edge To Attract More Customers And Beat Competition

 

 

Travelopro is a leading Travel Software Development Company that provides services for Flight, Hotel, Car, and Holiday Packages, and Travel Agent Portals through B2B, B2C channels facilitating API/GDS/XML integration. Online travel agencies, travel consolidators, and advisors are implementing travel technology solutions to gain a competitive edge in the market.

If your travel portal has the right GDS/API integrated within it, you will be able to attract more customers and retain them as well. When your customers visit your travel booking engine, it gets connected with GDS suppliers directly and displays real-time availability and prices of flights, hotels, etc.

During a travel software development for your travel business, GDS API Integration in the travel portal is essential for your online travel agency. Travelopro allows you and your customers access to a large inventory of flights, hotels, tour packages, etc. Instead of traveling to multiple platforms to make separate bookings, the GDS / API combination helps the clients to view huge inventories on one site. To attract and maintain customers, it is therefore a necessity to combine GDS / API with your travel platform. 

 

What Is GDS/API Integration?

 

 

Travelopro offers Global Distribution System integration & GDS API integration services for travel agents. GDS has real-time links to multiple service providers allowing agencies to operate with up-to-date inventory information. Our software via Global Distribution System API links to the database of travel suppliers and allows agents like you unfiltered access to booking information. 

Travelopro provides easy Global Distribution System (GDS) integration for your travel business. Being an inventory from suppliers across the globe, you can select from all major Global Distribution System facilitators like Worldspan, Galileo, Amadeus, Sabre, and get it implemented on a single interface. Each of these three types has individual features, specifications, and pricing. You can also compare the pricing to get a cost-effective GDS API Integration. 

 

What Are The Ways To Integrate Travel Software Development?

 

GDS system or Global Distribution System is a reservation network that is used as a point of access by travel agents, travel corporations, and reservation sites to accommodate hotel rooms, flight seats, and other travel products. 

GDS/API is a third-party supplier that provides access to travel inventory from different travel consolidators in terms of hotel rooms, flight tickets, rental cars, etc. It connects directly with GDS providers when your customers visit your travel booking engine and displays real-time availability and prices of flights, hotels, etc. Travel agencies and their clients can access the inventory online directly. The GDS/API integration in travel portal development can be done in the following ways:

 

GDS Suppliers:

 

Based on your region, requirements, and availability, choose a supplier that’s the best for your travel agency. It is possible for your OTA (Online Travel Agent) to access the suppliers of flights, hotels, and other rental services for cars, buses as well as holiday packages by directly accessing these suppliers and getting integrated with multiple Global Distribution System (GDS). Some of the major GDS suppliers are Amadeus, Sabre, Galileo, Worldspan, and Travelport.

 

Aggregators: 

 

The Aggregators provide you with access to consolidated data from various GDS integration service providers on a number of platforms. You can get highly aggressive rates by integrating your online travel agency (OTA) with aggregators.

 

SaaS-based Platform: 

 

If you want to promote your travel agency in a short time, it would be a wise decision for you to choose only Software as a Service or SaaS cloud-based travel platform. SaaS-based solutions include B2B as well as B2C business models with GDS / API integration services. These platforms are the white label travel solutions providers that offer readymade travel software with APIs integrated. These travel solutions are good for travel agencies that don’t wish to invest a huge amount in travel portal development or want to launch their travel products and services in the market at the earliest. 

 

Travel Consultants: 

 

You can consult travel technical consultants who will provide you with technical guidance on GDS / API integration if you lack technical expertise. Various travel consultants such as travel portal development companies also provide technical guidance and advise on different API/GDS integration service providers. 

 

How Much Does It Cost To integrate GDS/API In Travel Portal Software Development?

 

On its landing page, online travel portal for your business will include a travel agent booking. The booking engine connects directly to the GDS suppliers for travelers who visit your travel portal. It shows the real-time details of available hotel rooms, tickets for flights, etc. The cost of a travel software development with GDS/API integrations is dependent on two factors mainly, being choice of platform and choice of business model. The cost of GDS/API integration will depend on the type of platform you choose for your Online Travel Agency (OTA).

 

Booking Engines

 

On different kinds of travel platforms, it is possible to create a comprehensive travel portal. Your choice of platform will depend on the needs of your business and what you wish to achieve. As a result, the development costs will depend on the selection of the travel portal. Any travel portal is dependent on various types of flight booking engines, hotel booking engines, car rental engines, and various other systems such as on cruises & holiday packages booking, etc.

 

Flight Booking Engine: 

 

The flight booking engine is generally associated with XML integrations. The API/GDS is a network that establishes a connection between the third-party and the booking agents. The GDS API Integrations provides travel-related services to the end-users. A GDS integration such as Amadeus with your booking engine may cost an additional 25% of the above cost.

 

Hotel Booking Engine: 

 

A hotel booking engine integrates with all the leading suppliers of hotels. It is a computerized system that stores and distributes information of a hotel, resort, and other lodging facilities. Their function is to change the end-customers’ demands into bookings and create the primary concern for your OTA. The OTA will have an XML integration and will bring information from the airline. The GDS System is also partnered with bigger chains of hotels.

 

Car Rental Engine:

 

The integration of car booking engine with various car rental suppliers, fetches real-time inventories from the suppliers, at the best possible fares made available to the end-users. The booking engine will be incorporated with different vehicle rental providers, who will be bringing ongoing inventories from the providers, at the most ideal charges made accessible to the end-users.
 

Business Model: 

The cost further depends on whether your OTA (Online Travel Agent) is B2B travel portal or B2C travel portal. 

In the travel industry, the two most widely used business models are B2B and B2C. Of course, these models refer to the kind of clients that your travel company serves. The cost further depends on whether your OTA (Online Travel Agent) is a B2B travel portal or B2C travel portal. 

B2B Model or Business to Business model is a travel agent module that links customers and partners to your online travel agencies and product information. While this model promotes business growth and stability, the cost increases by 30% to the platform cost. B2B based travel portals tend to be more expensive to develop.

The B2C Model or Business to Customer model involves strategies and techniques to sell your products and services directly to customers. For a B2C business model, the cost increased by 15% in addition to the above costs of platforms.

 

Why Is GDS/API Integration Important For A Travel Portal?

 

 

Travelopro is a leading GDS API integration company. It is a specialized integration partner of global distribution systems. It has integrated the GDS with APIs perfectly. GDS/API integration in a travel portal is a must for your online travel portal to gain access to the travel inventories such as hotels, flights, rental cars, packages, etc. It facilitates customers to complete their search and booking on your travel portal instead of making bookings on different platforms. You will be able to attract and retain more customers if your travel portal has the right GDS / API integrated within it. 

Travelopro provides the flexibility to choose the GDS integration services for your travel portal if your business requirements are different from the API provided by the travel software. A GDS gathers and consolidates travel information from a varying spectrum of providers of service and allows agents to book airplane seats, hotel rooms, and cars and busses on rental.

The cost of the travel portal software development with GDS API integration depends on how the integration is being done. Your cost will be a bit higher if you want to be associated with all travel-related service providers and adopt SaaS platforms. 

When you work with us, you work with knowledgeable experts in the travel technology industry. As such, we make it a point to deliver the best possible work in the most affordable travel portal development cost by leveraging our knowledge and experience.