Fast
OTDS significantly minimizes the production time for data exports of tour operators or their Inventory Management Systems. Compared to the standards used to date such as INFX or KATI the production time is reduced by at least 75 percent. In addition incremental updates allow for deliveries of parts of the portfolio with the corresponding reduced file generation time.
Compact
Thanks to OTDS tour operators and other provider may decrease the volume of their data delivery to distribution systems significantly: In practice sizes for OTDS-files reach no more than 10% of the size for INFX-deliveries containng the same amount of offers. As with OTDS rather price- and product rules than complete offers are expressed, considerably more offers can be transferred in even smaller files. The effect on transfer- and loading times is correspondingly positive – while at the same time data quality is pushed to a higher level.
Precise
Due to the precise definition of price- and product rules by the tour operator in OTDS there is no scope for interpretation when processing the data. As a result the data quality increases – trips are displayed with reliably calculated prices and availabilities within the consulting tools of travel agencies and in the IBEs. Also total prices for families are feasible.
In general with OTDS 95% of all prices are identical with those of the booking request. More that 90% of the trips are available and bookable.
Free of charge
OTDS as the open, nonproprietary standard is available free-of-charge and may be used by any tour operator- and distribution system – regardless of the technology deployed (e.g. central caches or local player). This ensures independence from proprietary data standards or -formats for tour operators and distribution systems.
Extensive
OTDS already allows the transfer of all data for the most relevant travel components accommodation, flight, packaged travel as well as add-on services such as transfers, rental cars, insurances, activities, or parking lots. In addition OTDS contains all product- and price rules necessary for correct price calculation. All relevant information needed for product display, availability check, booking requests and the booking itself are also included.
Compatible
OTDS is compatible for various systems: it is the powerful standard of choice for providing travel data to central cache systems as well as all filling players located in the sphere of the supplier. OTDS also supports different external attribution systems for describing the travel products such as Giata Facts and DRV GlobalTypes.