New Firm to Help Companies in Striking the Best GDS Deals

Two senior GDS experts have launched a new offering, GDS Deals, to help leisure and business travel agents, tour operators, airlines, content suppliers and GDS distributors get the best out of their relationships with the GDSs.

Steve Barrett, former EMEA director for Worldspan, and David Taylor, who was Worldspan’s director for UK and Ireland and for distributor markets globally, have founded GDS Deals. Both left Worldspan last year after working on the merger with Travelport.

The services to be offered by GDS Deals include determining and documenting GDS functional requirements, operational support needs and commercial requirements, preparing bespoke requests for proposal (RFPs) and presenting them to potential GDS suppliers, among other conveniences.