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8. Travel Domain: Replacing GDS with Next-Generation Travel Platform

Debajani Mohanty1 
(1)
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
 

In this chapter, we will broadly learn how airlines and global distribution systems (GDS) work and how the entire ecosystem can be greatly benefited by engaging with Corda distributed ledger technology (DLT).

Reservations with airlines, hotels, car rentals, or cruises are often associated with a third party called GDS. As per Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_distribution_system), a GDS is “a computerised network system owned or operated by a company that enables transactions between travel industry service ...

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