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Galileo is a computer reservations system (CRS) owned by Travelport.As of 2000, it had a 26.4% share of worldwide CRS airline bookings. [1] In addition to airline reservations, the Galileo CRS is also used to book train travel, cruises, car rental, and hotel rooms.
Originally designed and operated by airlines, CRSs were later extended for use by travel agencies, and global distribution systems (GDSs) to book and sell tickets for multiple airlines. Most airlines have outsourced their CRSs to GDS companies, [1] which also enable consumer access through Internet gateways.
The central database is located at Erding, Germany. The major development centres are located in Sophia Antipolis ( France ), Bangalore ( India ), London ( UK ), and Boston ( United States ). In addition to airlines, the CRS is also used to book train travel, cruises , car rental, ferry reservations, and hotel rooms.
Central reservation system may refer to: Airline reservations system, the reservation system used by an airline company; Hotel reservation system, the central reservation system used by the hotel and resort industry; Computer reservation system, another name for the airline reservation systems used by travel agents
The name and URL were changed to Booking.com, and Stef Noorden was appointed as its CEO. In July 2005, the company was acquired by Priceline Group (now called Booking Holdings) for $133 million, and was merged with ActiveHotels.com, a European online hotel reservation company, purchased by Priceline Group for $161 million in September 2004. [6]
A mirror image of the passenger name record (PNR) in the airline reservations system is maintained in the GDS system. If a passenger books an itinerary containing air segments of multiple airlines through a travel agency, the passenger name record in the GDS system would hold information on their entire itinerary, while each airline they fly on would only have a portion of the itinerary that ...
OpenTable is an online restaurant-reservation service company founded by Sid Gorham, Eric Moe and Chuck Templeton [3] on July 2, 1998, and based in San Francisco, California.. In 1998, operations began with a limited selection of restaurants in San Francisco.
American Airlines and Teleregister Company developed a number of automated airline booking systems known as Reservisor. it first version was an electromechanical version of the flight boards introduced for the "sell and report" system that was installed in American's Boston reservation office in February 1946.