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Traveller search and booking timeline highlights significant country differences

By Linda Fox | February 22, 2012

One element within the Amadeus-sponsored research, released earlier today, deserves a bit more scrutiny. Read More

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Travellers from emerging markets frustrated by online travel experience

By Linda Fox | February 22, 2012

Travellers from emerging economies such as Russia and India are even more frustrated by researching travel online than those in more developed countries Read More

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Amadeus outage caused by technical failure during upgrades at Erding data centre

By Kevin May | February 16, 2012

Details have emerged as to the reason for a technical failure at Amadeus two weeks ago which affected the systems behind dozens of airlines. Read More

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Travelport debuts ViewTrip mobile trip management tool in UK, global roll-out to follow

By Kevin May | February 6, 2012

Travelport is joining the mobile party this week, unveiling its own take on mobile travel management services with ViewTrip, an application for smartphones. Read More

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Amadeus outage hit other GDSs as airline systems crashed

By Kevin May | January 31, 2012

The extent of a significant technology failure at Amadeus yesterday is beginning to unravel, as other systems across the industry are now known to have been affected. Read More

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GDS news from Travelport, Amadeus, Sabre, Abacus - January 2012

By PhocusWire | January 31, 2012

Product news, releases, projects and more from the global distribution systems during January 2012 - all here, in one easy read. Read More

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Unbundling is evil - there must be a better way

By Linda Fox | January 31, 2012

GRS - that's the new acronym being adopted to describe global distribution systems and their evolution - admittedly by the GDS themselves. Read More

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Amadeus technology outage hits major airline systems and agency bookings

By Kevin May | January 30, 2012

Amadeus says a major system failure which is understood to have affected thousands of passengers on Monday has been rectified. Read More

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Is it time for a global HotelWiki to assist the industry (and consumers) with hotel distribution?

By Viewpoints | January 25, 2012

There is a certain helplessness creeping in around online hotel distribution which is worrying hotels in Europe and worldwide. Read More

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NFC check-in and boarding coming to an airport near you - soonish

By Linda Fox | January 23, 2012

A smoother, less stressful airport process might be within reach thanks to technology developed by SITA Lab and Orange Business Services Read More

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Why the mechanics behind travel distribution will blow your mind

By Kevin May | January 18, 2012

Global distribution systems are crunching and processing travel data at astonishing scales and speed, but travellers would not have any sense of how it is done. Read More

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Travelport: IPO still a consideration, admits mistakes made with introduction of Agility

By Kevin May | January 18, 2012

Travelport says a listing of the business on the public markets is still "an option for the future" although such a move is not a active part of its overall strategy. Read More