According to a report in etravelblackboardasia.com, PhoCusWright has released one of the most comprehensive study titled ‘The Role and Value of the Global Distribution Systems in Travel Distribution,’ done to date on the Global Distribution Systems (GDSs) that provide much of the electronic infrastructure behind airline, hotel, car rental, and other travel transactions. The study was commissioned and sponsored by the Interactive Travel Services Association.
Based on original PhoCusWright research and proprietary data provided by the three major GDS companies (Amadeus, Sabre and Travelport), the study found that the GDS industry processed more than 1.1 billion travel transactions in 2008 representing more than USD 268 billion in global travel sales.
In the United States, GDS transactions represented more than one-third of all travel supplier revenue and almost two-thirds of all airline passenger revenue for 2008. Despite the recession, GDS companies grew the total bookings they powered in the U.S. from USD 93.6 billion in 2006 to USD 98.7 billion in 2008, |