Built from real experience in hospitality operations — not from a spreadsheet.
The hospitality industry runs on operational data — fact sheets, availability charts, photos, contracts, invoices. And for decades, all of this data has been exchanged manually: via email attachments, shared drives, and phone calls.
Every hotel manager knows the feeling. A new tour operator asks for your fact sheet. You find last year's version, update it, convert it to a PDF, and send it. They upload it into their system. Six months later they ask for an update. You repeat the whole process.
The Ananas GDS founders saw this problem firsthand — across dozens of properties and hundreds of tour operator relationships. Rather than adding another tool to an already crowded inbox, they built a structured platform that connects all of this in one place: where data can be managed once and shared consistently across every partner. That platform is Ananas GDS.
"Ananas" — the word for pineapple in most European and Middle Eastern languages — is one of the most universally recognized words across cultures. It represents connection and global accessibility: exactly what the platform is built to provide.
A global, shared layer for structured hospitality data. The same word in Berlin, Cairo, Istanbul, and Bangkok.
CEO & Founder
Full-stack developer and founder of Ananas GDS. Responsible for platform architecture, engineering, legal, and product direction. Building the infrastructure that the hospitality industry’s data exchange deserves.
Business Partner & Industry Director
20+ years of experience in tourism and travel technology integration. Florian brings the industry network, operational knowledge, and client relationships that connect Ananas GDS to the hotels and tour operators it serves.
Marketing
Responsible for Ananas GDS’s external presence, content, and partner outreach. Managing the platform’s visibility across digital channels.
Ananas GDS is not a booking platform. We do not process hotel reservations, manage rate distribution for booking channels, or compete with your existing reservation infrastructure. We are a neutral, open data distribution layer for the operational information that surrounds and supports those bookings.
We do not compete with our users. We are infrastructure.
