Explore the power of APIs for reliable automated solutions for your travel business. We support API services for GDS (Travelport, Amadeus, Sabre)

 

 

Travelopro is a leading Travel Reservation System Software company, providing travel APIs and GDS Integration for Travel Companies across the world. We create custom GDS, XML, & API integrations of PMS, CRS, Extranets, and Booking Systems for flights, hotels, car rentals, excursions, holiday packages, railway services, cruise lines, buses, and more.

Travel Portal Development is the core domain of Travelopro, we offer a wide range of Travel/Hospitality technology solutions to global clients. The travel portal domain is one of the large components in the e-Commerce vertical. Travel portal development holds various Online Reservation System & Online booking software such as Hotel reservation systems (Hotel booking software), Airline reservation system (Flight booking system), Bus booking system, & Vacation planners, and other internet booking engines. 

We categorize travel portal development into two various modules i.e., B2B Travel portal development, B2B2c Travel Agency Software, B2C, B2B2B Travel portal development, XML Binding, and Dynamic Packaging Systems (Flight + Hotel Booking Engine) B2B & B2B2B module is dedicated to the Travel Agents to do the business with Travel portals, where as in B2C module the end-users directly use Online Travel portal to book, Print & Email the tickets.

Travelopro is the leading travel technology company globally and we serve travel companies in around 150 countries across four continents. Our platform is powered by 70+ suppliers across hotels, flights, cars, sightseeing, vacations, and other ground services. 

We partner with our clients to provide strong distribution capabilities - B2B/B2C/B2B2C, automate travel business process, powerful back-office system, flexible content management system, and feature a unique standardization element.

Our booking engine is available on all major GDS/CRS including but not limited to Amadeus, Travelport and Sabre and direct connects. Our Booking Engine combines all your existing processes, regardless of where or how a booking occurs without changing your existing setup.

GDS API integration gives high and advanced software that holds the travel and tourism business alive and going. These services help build an impactful presence for your hotel in the virtual world, create great exposure and ease of transaction, resulting in lower costs through higher online revenue and profits. 

To understand the overall cost of your travel portal development with GDS/API integration services, you would have to consider the ways in which you can integrate your travel portal software and the Cost of GDS/API Integrations.

 

Major GDS API Integration Services

 

 

Travel Portal Development is one of the key domains of TPD Travelopro, providing Travel software/Travel Agency Software/Tourism Portal Development by integrating various GDS Such as Amadeus, Travelport UAPI, Galileo & Sabre Web services Integration and Non-GDS (Third-party/ Native/Consolidators) web services (APIs) for Flights, Hotels, Holidays, Cruises, Sightseeing, Cars, Transfers, Rail Booking Engines.

Travelopro offers Travel API which is the most advanced unified API platform and reduces integration time with access to inventory globally from a wide variety of suppliers across all products including GDSs, wholesalers, aggregators, consolidators, and more. By integrating the API of a payment gateway, the travelers would be able to make secure payments online using their credit card or debit card. There are multiple payment gateways available and we can help in choosing the right one.

Travelopro is fully experienced in helping businesses in GDS integration using their API services. GDS (Global Distribution System) undoubtedly is the backbone of the travel industry. They are the primary bridge among the various Travel industry service providers like Airlines, Hotels, Car Rental Companies, and travel agencies/agents.  

 

Amadeus GDS API Services

 

Operating since 1987, Amadeus is a member of IATA and SITA, operated by the Amadeus Operating since 1987, Amadeus is a member of IATA and SITA, operated by the Amadeus IT group headquartered in Madrid, Spain. It is one of the largest GDS systems with a full inventory of API suites to access information on various travel itineraries.

Amadeus has really simplified the process to avail their API services and has provided all the necessary details on Amadeus for Developers. Their API suite offers services in two major categories – Self Service APIs and Enterprise APIs. IT group headquartered in Madrid, Spain. It is one of the largest GDS systems with a full inventory of API suites to access information on various travel itineraries.

 

Self Service APIs

 

Air APIs: For Flight Bookings, Flight Search and airport information, and flight management with access to over 400 airlines with added features like multi city search, a seat map view, cheapest flight search, and the calendar view.

Hotel APIs: To manage hotel search and bookings. Access over 1,50,000 properties with features like search, compare, perform bookings, and see hotel reviews and ratings.

Trip APIs: Helps to get more information, recommendations for a better trip experience.

Destination Content APIs: To plan tours to various destinations with access to information like activities to do and major attractions around.

 

Enterprise APIs

 

This SOAP API suite is specially designed for businesses to extract the best value from the industry and offer seamless services to their customers. Businesses can avail of APIs related to Air Travel (Reservations and Ancillary Services), Cruises, Rail Travel, Rental Cars, Booking Management, Hotels, and Insurance.

The set of services are not only helping the businesses to deliver more value but also helping customers to get useful information for a well-planned trip. All the fare information is shared in real-time with a wide range of travel contents and instant booking options which makes the system more transparent and reliable. 

The leading transaction processor in the travel world provides technology solutions to travel providers and travel agencies. Amadeus GDS processes a high number of transactions on a daily basis. Starting from search to booking completion, the Amadeus booking system is a complete system.

 

Sabre GDS API Services

 

Sabre GDS was founded by American Airlines in 1960, it is the largest air booking provider in North America, owned by Sabre Corporation. Offering an effective digital solution with an innovative suite of Restful and SOAP services for the business.

 

Key Services Offered By The Sabre GDS: –

 

Air Availability Data: Access the customized data feed for air schedules, availability, and related information for your business.

Content Services for Lodging (CSL): New API to access the various Hotel properties from various Consolidators and Aggregators.

Corporate Travel Services: The best solution for business travel that enables you to shop for corporate travelers with certain travel policies in place.

Cruise: Access Cruise itineraries with added features like information on the deck plan, ship, cabin categories, etc.

Data Services: Access rich data information from the Sabre Travel marketplace.

Event Notification Services: Messaging services for any changes in reservations or important updates.

Hotel Descriptive Data Services: Access more than 1,25,000 hotel properties through Sabre Travel marketplace.

Market Fare View: Access information on airfare itineraries and prices.

New Distribution Capability (NDC): Sabre is at NDC level 4 capable of providing NDC services to its customers and businesses.

 

Travelport API Services

 

Travelport, a travel technology company headquartered in Georgia is a leading service provider for air tickets, hotel contents, car rentals, and B2B payment solutions dedicated to offering exceptional travel experiences, the world demands. Travelport opens its commerce platform to businesses through Travelport Universal API.

 

Various Travelport API Services:

 

• APIs & Data Feeds

• Travelport Universal API

• Travelport Trip Services API

• Travelport Agency Private Fares XML

• Travelport Booking Feed

 

Travelport has 3 GDS systems – Apollo, Galileo, Worldspan and it offers rich travel content to the various online travel agencies as well as offline agents. One can access a complete set of flight information including ancillary and optional services, Hotels, Cars, Rails with full control of features like checking the price, modifying or cancelling itineraries, retrieve statuses, or perform bookings.

 

What are the Ways for GDS/API integration in Travel Portal Development Software?

 

GDS/API are third party suppliers that provide access to travel inventory in terms of hotel rooms, flight tickets, rental cars, etc, from various travel consolidators. Travel agencies and their customers can directly access the inventory online. 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 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 Systems (GDS). Some of the leading GDS suppliers are Amadeus, Sabre, Galileo, Worldspan, Travelport, and Expedia.

 

Aggregators

 

The aggregators provide you with access to a number of platforms consolidated data from multiple GDS integration service providers. You can get highly competitive rates by integrating your online travel agency with aggregators.

 

SaaS-based Platform

 

If you have a shorter time to market your services and products, it is wise for you to go for cloud-based travel platforms. All that will be needed out of you is to appoint a list of providers for your OTA. These types of solutions can simply launch your website, within a few seconds. They operate in both B2B and B2C modes.

 

Travel Consultants

 

If you lack technical expertise, you can consult travel technical consultants who will provide you technical guidance on GDS/API integration. A travel portal development company can also provide consultation on various API/GDS integration service providers for your OTA.

 

What is the cost of GDS/API integration?

 

 

So, now that you have taken a decision to develop a travel portal development software. Before starting, you must be clear about the cost factors in setting up a travel agency software for your OTA.

The online travel portal for your business will have a travel agency booking engine on its homepage. For the travelers who visit your travel portal, the booking engine directly gets connected to the GDS suppliers. It then exhibits the real-time data of available hotel rooms, flight tickets, etc. The cost of a travel portal development with GDS/API integrations is dependent on two factors mainly, being choice of platform and choice of business model.

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 bus reservation, cruises & holiday packages booking, etc. The cost of GDS/API integration will depend on the type of platform you choose for your Online Travel Agency.

Travelopro's travel booking software allows your B2C and B2B customers to book flights, hotels, packages, activities, and ground transportation online with real-time rates and availability. What’s more, with our Travel Agency Software you can sell both third-party inventory of your choice as well as your directly contracted inventory on the same interface.

We offer web-based Travel Agency Software that benefits any travel websites including hotels, resorts, airlines, rental cars, etc. Travel software is designed and developed for Travel Operators & Inbound Tour Operators who make reservations for travelers.

 

Who needs these Integrations?

 

• Online Travel Agencies (OTAs)

• Tour Operators (TOS)

• Corporate Online Booking Tools (OBTs)

• Meta-search Travel Management Companies (TMCs)

• Corporates

• Mobile Solution Providers

 

Major Features:

 

• B2C and B2B online booking portal

• Advanced Flight booking engine

• Integrated CRM system

• Online payment gateway

• Promo code management for marketing

• B2C and B2B profile management – My bookings, booking vouchers, Cancelation – linked with bookings

• Post-sale support – Reschedule and Cancelation

• Mid office system – Booking management, Front desk management, Supplier management, Service fee management

• Mobile application iOS and Android

 

Advanced Reservation System That Helps Grow Your Sales And Productivity

 

Travelopro is a complete reservation system that combines back office, online booking (B2C), and partner booking (B2B). It is cloud-based software so you can access it anytime from anywhere.

 

Our reservation system handles:

 

Reservation management

 

• Create reservations, enter customers, track payments

 

Catalog definition

 

• Input all your products (accommodation, flights, activities, transfers, rent-a-car, vessels, cruises…) and create complex travel packages or groups

 

Book travel products and flights directly

 

• From 3rd party suppliers and GDS systems

 

Tour management

 

• Create tours by entering input services and easily define the selling price

 

Online booking B2C

 

• Publish your travel products online

 

Partner booking

 

• Reservation system to allow your partners to book easier

 

Automated supplier ordering

 

• Communication with your suppliers is completely automated

 

Document creation

 

• Create invoices, vouchers, receipts

 

Finances and Accounting

 

• Complete management of your receivable and payable

 

Reports

 

• Get a better insight into your travel agency business and find critical spots

 

We have a separate team of expert developers who are seasoned professionals when it comes to API consumption and integration. Whether it's a travel and hospitality API or a payment gateway API or a social media APIs (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc.), we are thoroughly experienced. 

You can rest assured that with our experience and scale of operation, today we are in a position to provide you the best-in-class quality of solutions in a budget that is unbeatable and unheard of in the industry. We specialize in the following Bookings Engine using the integration of domestic and International API partners.

 

What Travelopro does for you?

 

Every business has a different set of priorities based on their market situation, maturity, and customer profiles. Travelopro delivers across 5 key aspects to strengthen your business

 

Scalability

 

• Scale your travel business up to 10X with our highly flexible Travel ERP that offers the widest range of partners, integration possibilities, and features.

 

Customer Experience

 

• 2X your customer experience with Travelopro, built for simplicity, intuitiveness, and customization.

 

Reliability

 

• Run your business with 100% confidence on Travelopro, built with comprehensive security and business continuity protocols.

 

New Opportunities

 

• Open new business frontiers across geographies and categories by leveraging the global presence of Travelopro.

 

Business Performance

 

• Drive predictable business performance with 100% control over operations, margins, and best performing channels.

 
Conclusion:

 

Based on business needs we are ready to assist and extend capabilities of enhancing GDS API to quickly consume by avoiding complex parsing segments in Itinerary for various GDS Systems, design, and provide solutions for a dashboard in configuring settings for parsing various things for GDS System and policies for TMCs and Agents.