According to research firm PhoCusWright the Global Distribution Systems (GDS) represent 1.1 Billion travel transaction world wide. The GDS is still a major contributor and hence of great importance to many players in the hospitality world.
GDS companies as Amadeus, Sabre and Travelport are representing over USD 268 Billion travel revenue in 2008. These are transactions made on airline tickets, hotels, car rental and other travel arrangements. The role of GDS is quite dominating in the travel world. It would be interesting to know how GDS distributions relate to the OTA contributions as they are making their move upwards.
In Europe alone, the GDS is responsible for one-fifth of the total travel revenue. It is expected that the GDS travel revenue is going to grow in the next couple of years. GDs powers millions of travel agencies in online transactions.
For a hotel owner is quite vital to manage this channel in the correct order. Revenue management systems can help and assist revenue managers to join this success channel and optimize rates and allotments in the channel. Not every channel management or revenue management program is able to assist you with this. Revpar guru is the only system in the market today which can assist in real time to manage all you online channel, including your GDS.