The nature of travel related businesses have undergone a radical change. The role of the travel agency has moved forward from merely being a reservations service to a business management consultant. Corporations require their business management consultants to provide meaningful and accurate information in a timely manner. Galileo IDS is a Galileo International Proprietary data source that collects both pre and post ticketing data from the Apollo and Galileo host systems in real time, enabling travel related businesses to meet the growing needs of their customers.
With Galileo IDS (or “GIDS”), travel business managers have the ability to extensively analyze travel patterns, travel policy compliance, assist in vendor negotiations, business operations and budgeting. Galileo IDS also supplies users factual management guidance by providing cost containment based on real time database management. The power of Galileo IDS allows the ability to gain strategic, operational and tactical views of a business as well as help win and maintain corporate accounts by providing them with relevant travel reports. In a matter of seconds, agencies, corporations and third party developers can create in-house ad hoc reports to help run their business.
- Provides the ability to streamline robotic activity.
- Eliminates excessive transactions.
- Provides reliable data to monitor reservation compliance with travel policy just after booking, not after the trip.
- A revenue-generating product for agencies as it increases their service product line allowing them to move to a travel management role with their existing corporate customers and thus strengthen the agency’s overall value.
- Allows customers to monitor sales of preferred vendors in real time as well as create sales forecasts and market share reports.
- Corporations using Galileo IDS will have greater access to up-to-the minute travel data to assist in vendor negotiations, travel policy compliance and travel budgeting.
- Provides the ability to create WATT (“Where Are Travelers Today”) reports using real time booking data. Specifically, with Galileo IDS a WATT report can be produced at anytime to identify the whereabouts of each travelers and how to contact them in the event of an emergency.