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GDS Connectivity

Travelmed offers connectivity to the GDS distribution channels to small and medium hotels and regional hotel groups. Travelmed provides hotels with a practical and easy to use CRS system to connect your hotel to the world’s major GDS. Your hotel will be connected to over 600,000 travel agents worldwide, using Sabre, Galileo, Worldspan and Amadeus. Travel agents can view your inventory to make real-time bookings in the certain knowledge that your hotel information is accurate and up-to-date. Your hotel will also be featured on over 1,700 of the world’s leading hotel-booking internet websites – which means that your hotel will be bookable by millions of consumers worldwide.

With our complete online distribution solution, you can now manage your hotel’s description, images, rates, and availability across all your channels, while maintaining full control over your content at anytime.

The Travelmed CRS is a web-based solution, that is accessed via a web-browser (i.e. Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari) and requires no software installation on your local computers. The application is very user-friendly and self-explanatory, and requires almost no training. Yet, should you require assistance, your Travelmed support team is just one phone call or email away from you.

With Travelmed CRS your able to change your hotel descriptions, images, rates, and availability at any time. The moment you save your changes, they will be instantly made available in the distribution channels you choosed. No need for manual intervention from our side, you’re in total control. A truly complete online distribution solution for hotels!

The Distribution Channels

Travelmed CRS provides next-generation seamless connectivity to the four Global Distribution Systems (GDS) - Sabre, Amadeus, Galileo and Worldspan - and GDS-powered travel portals, making your hotel bookable to travel agents and distributors worldwide.

In addition, Travelmed CRS connects to the Pegasus Online Distribution Database (ODD), making your hotel bookable with the major online travel agents (OTAs) and their thousands of affiliate sites.

Further, our fully integrated Channel Management Solution allows you to upate third-party websites, with whom you have direct contracts, eliminating the need for time-consuming manual updates of third-party extranet websites.

Benefits of the Global Distribution Systems (GDS)

EASY CONNECTIVITY
Travelmed CRS is the most simple and cost effective hospitality marketing and distribution solution today. It seamlessly connects you to the four largest global distribution systems - Sabre, Galileo, Amadeus and Worldspan.

RECEIVE BOOKINGS 24x7
Globally situated travel agents use the GDS extensively. By listing on the GDs, you make it possible for them to view and book your hotel inventory 24 X 7

BROADEN YOUR MARKET REACH
Effective and easy way to market your hotel on the Internet as travel agents and travel websites use the GDS extensively.

WIDEN YOUR DISTRIBUTION NETWORK
Gain more exposure to agents and travelers by proactive marketing to travel agencies, consortia and corporate accounts. The GDS is the most common booking mechanism for consortia and negotiated corporate rates.

EXPAND YOUR COVERAGE
Expand your reach to corporate and leisure travelers with special travel trade programs for year-round bookings, for airport hotels and for last-minute reservations.

ONLINE DISTRIBUTION STRATEGY
Hosting your inventory on a new online distribution channel is an effective method to capture market share.

NEGLIGIBLE MAINTENANCE REQUIRED
There is negligible maintenance required as the information added to the central reservation system for your hotel chain or the representation company is automatically added to the GDS. Also, the information provided to CRS for your hotel chain is automatically reflected on the GDS.