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  #1 Pierre Gourdet on 10 Sep 18

   

  a global distribution system is a network that links the four vital sectors of the travel industry: airline reservations, car rentals, hotel reservations, and destination activities. It facilitates automated transactions between vendors (airlines, hotels, car rental agencies, attraction tickets), travel agents that subscribe to the service, and the average travel consumer. When a travel agent books a reservation for a client, they're using the GDS. So is the customer who books reservations himself or herself through a site like Kayak or Travelocity.Like the Internet itself, there is no one company that runs the global distribution system. It doesn't manage a hotel's room inventory - the hotel retains control of that. Rather, it's a real-time network of linked databases that routes user requests for information to the right place.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">a global distribution system is a network that links the four vital sectors of the travel industry: airline reservations, car rentals, hotel reservations, and destination activities. It facilitates automated transactions between vendors (airlines, hotels, car rental agencies, attraction tickets), travel agents that subscribe to the service, and the average travel consumer. When a travel agent books a reservation for a client, they're using the GDS. So is the customer who books reservations himself or herself through a site like Kayak or Travelocity.Like the Internet itself, there is no one company that runs the global distribution system. It doesn't manage a hotel's room inventory - the hotel retains control of that. Rather, it's a real-time network of linked databases that routes user requests for information to the right place.</div>

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