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I wish someone from the accommodation industry would tell us all how the central booking system and most hotel chains are abusing everyone, from inn and hotel o
by 8jef 3y ago
I wish someone from the accommodation industry would tell us all how the central booking system and most hotel chains are abusing everyone, from inn and hotel owners to end customers. Their contracts are pure gold, in the sense that they cloak all possibility of independence under a thick cover nothing can pierce through. Tourism, they are killing it, literally.
- gvedem 3y agoWhat do you mean by "central booking system"? As far as I know (working on a rental car contract for a couple years), there are just various travel industry standards for bookings and whatnot.
- CharlieDigital 3y agoIt's called the GDS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_distribution_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_distribution_system It started with airlines, but eventually included everything from hotels to rental cars. The space is more or less dominated by a few big players. Sabre. Amadeus. Travelport. GDS is the backbone of all of these booking platforms as far as I'm aware.
- ramses0 3y agoGDS. A Global Distribution System is a worldwide reservation system that acts as a conduit between travel bookers and suppliers, such as hotels, other accommodation providers and other travel related services.
- 8jef 3y agoI mean there is only one pipeline, to which are contributing many actors, like big agencies (booking, expedia), car rental, airlines, etc. Together, they act as one.
- jwhitlark 3y agoThere are multiple GDSs, and AFAIK neither Expedia nor Booking.com use them. The space is way more confused and competitive then your comment implies. The best writeup I've seen on the space is https://www.altexsoft.com/blog/hotel-api/ https://www.altexsoft.com/blog/hotel-api/, if you really want to dive into the details. Edit: been typing markdown all day, oops.