GDS
Global Distribution System
The wholesale network connecting travel suppliers to agencies and sellers.
Amadeus, Sabre and Travelport are the GDS incumbents, and all three are now building agent-ready interfaces. The strategic question is whether agents treat a GDS as their inventory layer or route around it, which is why their current research output is so focused on granular APIs and governance.
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