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A Global Distribution System (GDS) is a software and also called as a ARS ( Automated Reservation System) used to access real time information about schedules, availability, fares and other travel formalities that enables automate reservation transactions between third parties (travel agencies / agents , corporation, airlines, airports, hotels, railways and more in order to provide travel-related multiple services like Ticketing, accommodation, transfer, and other activities, if any to the end Passenger / Tourist / Excursionist.
GDS is different from a computer reservations system (CRS), but a part of CRS originally designed and operated by airlines and were later extended as GDS for the use of Primary Customers “travel agents” both online and office-based to make reservation and manage their own business more effectively. A GDS system are global in nature and heart of travel industry with a real-time link to the multiple vendor's (Airlines, Hotels, Tourism Corporation, Airports, Railways, Transfers corporation and other activities) database.
For example, when a travel agency requests a reservation on the service of a particular airline, the GDS system routes the request to the appropriate airline computer reservations system. This enables a travel agent with a connection / tool / software to a single GDS to choose, book and serve travellers better on various services flights, hotels, railways , activities and associated services on all the vendors in the world who are part of that GDS .
GDS, the technology which keeps the travel sector moving - from initial search in making a booking, from pricing to ticketing, from managing reservations to managing check-in and departure processes and facilitate the entire travel journey experience from door-to-door for hundred million of people.
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