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Seligo system ‘to replace Viewdata’
Accommodation provider Seligo has adopted a new reservation system which some in the industry have tipped will replace Viewdata.
The company has installed TORIX – Tour Operator Reservations in XML – which will connect its reservation system with the Web portals of Teletext Holidays and travelsupermarket.com. The system has been developed under the auspices of the Travel Technology Initiative.
It will allow visitors to the portals to search for live availability and book Seligo’s accommodation in real-time.
Seligo information systems manager Peter Barnsley said: “Viewdata is dying, it just needs a little shove to be completely killed off.”
Some observers however said the death of Viewdata has been predicted for years – but it remains popular and widely-used by thousands of agents.
TOPIX has been developed under the auspices of the Travel Technology Initiative which is also behind TOPAS, a system that passes product availability from tour operators to the data scanning organisations that provide travel agents with product search systems.
Up to 50 operators and agents are using the systems.
Report by Steve Jones
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