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What does OTA stand for?
by barfoomoo 16y ago
What does OTA stand for?
- mkramlich 16y agoonline travel agent (ie. web-based) to differentiate from old fashioned bodies-in-seats-in-office-somewhere travel agencies that you had to call, fax or stroll into in person. Agents there typically sat in front of either a terminal connected to a GDS like Galileo, or, more recently, a Windows box with native apps doing approximately the same thing. Agents would perform queries for you on their computers and they sometimes had to type in a sort of mini-language full of various commands and brief codes.
- khandelwal 16y agoGDS = Global Distribution System. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_reservations_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_reservations_system
- physgrafer 16y agoOTAs use GDSs too