CETS, the leading travel agency tool in Austria and Switzerland, will shortly also be working with the OTDS offer data format. This is ensured by a connection of the OTDS Player from BEWOTEC to CETS PowerSearch from Travelport. For travel inquiries initiated by travel agents in PowerSearch  the respective OTDS Player of tour operators FTI Group, Bentour, Schauinsland and Gruber Reisen will be addressed via a hub. As response, corresponding offers will be returned in high speed.

The OTDS format as a guarantor for high data quality even with very large offer volumes also supports the search for alternative flight times, total family prices and direct flight connections. Important PowerSearch specifics such as displaying the number of rooms in hotels or the Travelport-specific definition of regions are also taken into account.

Dieter Rumpel, Managing Director Germany, Austria & Switzerland at Travelport, on the successful project: “As one of the leading leisure distribution systems in Europe, we are keen to support all the renowned data formats in CETS PowerSearch. This means that tour operators are free to decide which data format they prefer for the delivering their portfolio to us. By using the BEWOTEC OTDS Player infrastructure, we can very easily query the offer data of important tour operators.”

Michael Becher, Managing Director of BEWOTEC, adds: “Now that Travelport with its system CETS is also working with OTDS, the format is gaining further acceptance in Austria and Switzerland. I am particularly pleased about this in my role as a board member of the OTDS association.”

The construct is technically easy to expand as tour operators in the Austrian and Swiss markets make their OTDS players available for connection via the hub.