• Access to Amadeus, Galileo/Apollo, Sabre and Worldspan.
• XML based on the OTA 2005A specifications
• SOAP version 1.1 
• XML version 1.0
• Authentication based access
• Aggregation of content
• Use of agency Pseudo City Code

• Reduced development cost
• Accelerated development process
• Single point of access to the main GDS systems and other travel suppliers
• Simplified but rich travel functionality
• Easy to access application

TravelTalk Connect provides access to the functionality of the main Global Distribution Systems (GDS) and other travel suppliers through the internet web services. They allow companies to integrate travel features with their in-house applications.

The web services are built upon Open Travel Alliance (OTA) standard XML for the travel industry. They help companies with little GDS formats knowledge to easily build a powerful travel web application tailored to their needs.

Currently TravelTalk provides normalized web services to the following GDS: Amadeus, Galileo/Apollo, Sabre and Worldspan.

With new internet technologies, companies can now engineer travel web applications easily and at a fraction of the cost it used to be in the past. TravelTalk Connect provides a simple infrastructure and access to multiple travel distribution channels that make integration faster and more efficient. Because TravelTalk Connect helps speed up the time to market, companies can better compete in the challenging travel industry.

TravelTalk Connect makes it very simple to start exchanging messages with travel suppliers. With standard development tools and the Internet architecture, you can create travel web applications that fit your needs completely. Our technical staff can provide help on a consulting basis.

Thanks to the Open Travel Alliance and technologies supported by Microsoft, IBM and Sun, the development of travel application on the web has been drastically simplified. These standards allow disparate systems to communicate through the Internet and eliminate the old "screen scraping" techniques as well as the need to develop as many interfaces as suppliers have available.

As such, TravelTalk Connect provides an interface to the developers who do not need to understand the complexities of GDS system formats. Our customers can access all the functionality needed to sell travel (air, car, hotel, cruise). It is all achieved through the internet, saving them time and money.

TravelTalk Connect provides a standard interface minimizing the complexity of GDS formats. It becomes simpler to sell travel on the Internet for a minimal cost.

Software:

TravelTalk Connect web services adhere to existing web standards and do not restrict development of client applications to any tool. They can be deployed on any platform that supports SOAP over HTTP including Windows, Unix and Linux.

A wide variety of languages and development tools can be used to develop client applications for TravelTalk Connect web services.

Hardware:

TravelTalk Connect web services are platform independent and will function with existing systems.