Industry

Travel & Hospitality

GDS-aware caching, booking flow protection, and global edge presence for inventory and search.

How we help
Mobile bot reduction
220ms
Avg. search response
~40%
Infrastructure savings
The challenge

What makes this vertical uniquely demanding.

Search latency determines whether you convert

Travel search is the most latency-sensitive workload in commerce. Users who wait more than 3 seconds leave — and GDS round-trips are unavoidable without smart edge caching strategies.

Price scrapers drain infrastructure without revenue

Fare aggregators, metasearch engines, and competitor bots generate enormous search volumes. They consume server capacity, inflate your cloud bill, and yield zero bookings.

Booking flow failures cost entire itinerary revenue

A failed or slow checkout on a complex booking — flights, hotels, ancillaries — doesn't result in an abandoned cart. It results in a lost customer who books with a competitor and doesn't return.

How we help

From first assessment to continuous operation.

01

Assess

We audit your search API performance, GDS integration paths, and bot traffic composition to identify where latency and infrastructure cost can be reduced most quickly.

02

Architect

We design caching strategies that respect inventory freshness, protect booking flows with PCI-aware edge security, and route GDS traffic on the lowest-latency paths.

03

Deploy

Akamai CDN, EdgeWorkers for search acceleration, and Bot Manager — tuned to distinguish legitimate metasearch partners from aggressive scrapers and fare bots.

04

Operate

24/7 monitoring with travel-specific dashboards covering booking flow error rates, search latency percentiles, and bot volume by source and behaviour.

220ms
Average search response time

By caching inventory-safe search results at the edge and optimising GDS request paths, our travel clients achieve sub-250ms search response times globally — a direct driver of booking conversion.

Let's plan your next move.

A 30-minute consultation with one of our senior architects. Walk away with a clear, vendor-neutral assessment of your security and performance posture.

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