Evénement XFT !
What is the XFT ?
XFT language allows the tourism sector to interact and to communicate thanks to a common language. The objectives ? Rationalize, simplify and increase the exchanges to get more and more rapidity, proximity, productivity
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XFT from yesterday to nowadays
From real to virtual transactions
In 1998, Galiléo had the idea to sale online products using online transactions. At that time, people didn't go for it because of the competition it could bring
Online transactions, language based on "object"
It took many years for the online transactions to be accepted by the differents actors. Once it was done, it had been decided these transactions would be based on language based on "object".
IS OTA the answer ?
At that time, OTA was thought to be the good language to be used for the transactions.Unfortunatelly, it appears that these lacked of flexibility. Furthermore, it appeared also that they depended too much on GDS.
A language based on "travel"
Created in 2003, XFT - eXchange For Travel- answered the needs to have a language based on "travel". Many Tour operators adopted it. After that, vendors and distributors, services company and GDS (Amadeus, Galileo/Woldspan followed the movement ...
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