Being professional in the field of GDS API Integration is the key to survive
Travel API Integration is a web service which renders various travel consolidators to access the travel deals. Travel agencies use the GDS API Integration, third party flight APIs and hotel APIs to access the travel deals on an online platform.
Inventory is the heart and soul of any travel agency. Regardless of whatever you are investing in sales and marketing, if you are not maintaining the correct inventory/content at competitive prices then people won’t be coming up to buy from you. Through GDS API Integration, the travellers can access more than thousands of flight, hotels, activities, transfers and car rentals from the different part of the world with genuine rates and availability and make the reservation instantly from their devices.
Since last few years, there has been tremendous growth in the search engines and OTAs. This renders the people to expect all information at their fingertips at any moment. If you are not having the information which is searched by the people, they will instantly replace you with your competitor. The travel market has many players and being professional in the field of GDS API Integration is the key to survive.
Why Third-party Content?
If you are a small pond player whether a start-up or small agency which is handling few customers or operating in the very small region, then the various range of content is not important for you.
Therefore, you can have a direct contract with the local suppliers. In case you are planning to scale up your business, then you need to have a larger sized inventory to get correct growth in your business. This is because of the reason that at a certain point in time it will become very hard to physically go and sign the direct contract with thousands of suppliers from different regions.
What is GDS API Integration?
The GDS API Integration is used to integrate the third party GDS/Wholesaler inventory/ feeds into booking engine of your site. This makes the customer searching for any hotel or booking a flight on your site to remain at your site, rather than being redirected to another site, and the payment will be collected by you.
The traveller can make a secure payment through online mode using their credit card or debit card. This is well facilitated by integrating the API of payment gateway. For travel portals, there are multiple payment gateways available and can be selected the right one with the help of your travel technology partner.
Benefits of Travel APIs
• It allows you to add mark-ups for end customers/agents.
• You will get direct payment from customers.
• Gives dynamic information returned from XML pages.
• The low maintenance of content gives you more time for your core tasks like marketing and creating packages.
• On longer term, reduced travel agencies overhead cost.
