// GDS XML / API Travel Switch

Travel 2.0 | Strategy offers economical GDS XML/API Switch data-access via sub-license structure; to accommodate small to medium travel enterprises to gain access to contents across multiple GDS providers, in an efficient manner, economical and shorten time-to-market deployment method.

GDS XML/API Travel Switch provides stable multi-source GDS gateway that connects to all four GDSs (Sabre, Amadeus, Galileo and Worldspan), through structured data streams, it normalizes data-exchange in a standard application- programming-interface (API). The multi GDS XML/API Travel Switch allows independence from a standard one-source only GDS model and facilitates the integration of multiple GDS inventory at an individual-segmented-itinerary level, which displays query results in a unified structure. It comes with hotel media contents data feed from Northstar Travel Media and Leonardo to display rich hotel contents.

Licensing Solutions Structure:

1. Hosted Software as a Service – no software to install at customer premise; licensing, setup, flexible support arrangement, yearly maintenance, and transaction fees applies.
2. On-Premise Installation 1 – compiled DLL software copy; licensing, setup, flexible support arrangement, yearly maintenance, and transaction fees applies.
3. On-Premise Installation 2 – compiled DLL software copy; licensing, setup, flexible support arrangement, and yearly maintenance fees applies; no transaction fees.

GDS XML/API Travel Switch is built on open standards using Web Services’ Extensible Markup Language (XML), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web Services Description Language (WSDL), and the Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) and in compliant with Open Travel Alliance (OTA) standard XML schemas.

GDS XML/API Travel Switch allows client with proprietary or third-party booking platform to integrate and build highly customize booking interface, logic and process steps. It is able to query multi-GDS contents sourcing into singularly unified booking interface normalization. It provides the ability to use multiple GDS Web Service PCC, IPCC or OfficeID across multiple GDS data source.

GDS XML/API Travel Switch access requires one-time low entry sub-licensing fee at no monthly or yearly maintenance charges (on-demand support maybe billed separately), plus negotiable transaction fee based on monthly cumulative booking volume.

GDS XML/API Travel Switch one-time license fee includes setup, reasonable implementation support and one IPCC or OfficeID integration on each GDS brand. Multiple IPCC/OfficeID per GDS brand integration can be accommodated, which requires additional integration setup fees.

Talk To Us about your GDS XML/API connectivity requirements to receive a proposal price-quote or we can extend a GDS XML/API Gateway sourcing consulting services to find the best-fit solution, from multiple vendors according to your budget.