GDSs account for USD268 billion of travel revenue
The Global Distribution Systems (GDS) industry processed more than 1.1 billion travel transactions in 2008, representing more than USD268 billion in global travel sales. PhoCusWright, in what it calls the "most comprehensive study ever done into the GDS sector" based on original research and proprietary data provided by Amadeus, Sabre and Travelport, found that in the US, GDS transactions represented more than one-third of all travel supplier revenue and almost two-thirds of all airline passenger revenue for 2008.
