Techtalks: Traveltech
What are the top GDS providers for travel start-up?
answered Jan 1, 2023
The top GDS integration for travel start-ups includes Amadeus, Sabre and Travelport. When choosing a GDS provider, it's important to consider factors such as cost, range of services, and level of support and training provided. You should also consider your business's specific needs and requirements and how the GDS provider can meet those needs.
How to Integrate Amadeus API?
answered Jan 1, 2023
If you want to integrate the Amadeus API into your application or website, here are the general steps you should follow:
Sign up for an Amadeus developer account: In order to use the Amadeus API, you will need to sign up for a developer account on the Amadeus Developer Portal. This will give you access to the API documentation, developer tools, and other resources.
Review the API documentation: The Amadeus API documentation provides detailed information about the different API endpoints, request and response formats, and other technical details. It's important to familiarize yourself with this documentation in order to understand how the API works and how to use it effectively.
Choose your API product: Amadeus offers a range of API products, each with its own specific features and capabilities. You will need to choose the API product that best meets the needs of your application or website.
Register your application: In order to use the Amadeus API, you will need to register your application on the Amadeus Developer Portal. This will give you a unique API key that you can use to authenticate your API requests.
Make API requests: Once you have your API key and you have familiarized yourself with the API documentation, you can start making API requests using your preferred programming language. You can use the API to search for and book travel services, retrieve booking information, and more.
Test and debug your integration: It's important to thoroughly test and debug your integration to ensure that it is working as expected. You can use the Amadeus sandbox environment to test your API requests without making actual bookings.
Go live: Once you have tested and debugged your integration, you can go live and start using the Amadeus API to power your application or website.
It's important to note that integrating the Amadeus API can be a complex process, and it may require a certain level of programming expertise. If you are not familiar with API development, you may want to consider hiring a developer or a development company to help with the integration process.
Which hotel aggregator is the best?
asked Jun 20, 2022
What is duffel.com?
answered Dec 7, 2023
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Is there an API to purchase hotel rooms on hourly bases?
answered May 11, 2022
Hi there,
One of the places you could go is Byhours. They offer Sabre-based integration and have their platform for travel agents.
Also, Dayuse has a booking platform for online travel agencies. Try contacting them directly. We aren't sure they have an API, but worth a try.
How to pick an online booking platform for my travel business?
asked Apr 20, 2022
How to integrate with Aero CRS API?
answered Mar 2, 2023
Hello there!
AeroCRS has a Developers Hub that contains all the guides and documentation you might need to build an API connection with them. They have APIs available both on JSON and on XML.
To get access to their APIs, you have to choose one of the integration options and sign up with AeroCRS (that includes submitting the form and signing a full contract and a distribution contract).
Currently, AeroCRS has 5 integration options for airlines, their affiliates, travel agencies, and aggregators:
- Website Integration -- to add the AeroCRS booking widget and redirect customers to the airline website for booking;
- Advanced integration -- to develop your own search engine and redirect customers to the airline website for purchase;
- Availability and Fares -- to retrieve information on flights availability and fares and redirect customers to the airline website for booking;
- Full Booking Process -- to implement a complete booking flow, including payment and ticketing (agreements with every airline are required);
- AeroCRS Network -- to implement a full booking flow after signing one agreement with AeroCRS instead of separate agreements with every airline.
For all types of integrations the pricing is the same: it's free if you do up to 400k requests per month, anything above that is charged $0.001 USD per request. Plus, you pay $0.70 USD per segment booked.
For more information, you can also visit their Knowledge base.
Is it necessary to book a return ticket?
asked Mar 29, 2022
I want to know if it's compulsory to book a return flight ticket even if you are traveling for employment purpose which will take you to be in the country for more than one year.
What hotels use OPERA PMS?
asked Aug 25, 2021
Is there any Flights API that has the ability to handle all types of Refund and Reissue?
answered Feb 14, 2022
Ok so per my reccomendation there are some flight apis that are best i.e
- Amadeus
- flightapis
- Travelport
- Sabre
- Mystifly
- TravelFusion
To know more details about api integration check out this link provided.
SaaS Car Rental
asked Jul 29, 2021
Is there a solid SaaS Car Rental system that has a quality API which allows for building your own booking and checkin flows? We've looked at a number of options. Most seem like custom pro-serve implementations to startup up and they seem to have little to no API.
What Hotel API would you recommend for a startup that wants to negotiate rates/inclusions directly with hotels?
answered Jan 20, 2022
The Hotel API I would suggest for a startup that wants to negotiate rates/inclusions directly with hotels are as follows -
- Stuba API
- Travel Boutique Online
- HotelBeds API
- Travellanda API
- BedsonlineAPI
- DOTW API
- GTA API
- lobal API
- JacTravel API
- Mikki API
- Triton API
- bookohotel API
Hope this information will help you . To know more about API integration . Go through this link .
Is availabe Free amadeus REST API for live Car Rental application or it is only for demo purpose?
answered Jul 16, 2021
Hi Vanika,
As of today there are no car rental APIs in the Self-Service framework. For this you will need to use Enterprise.
Kind regards,
Mat
Revenue Management System
answered May 31, 2021
Hi there,
It’s not unusual for PMS providers to separate their Revenue Management module from the base software. With providers such as Protel and eZee Absolute, you will have to either pay extra for RM features, while others like Little Hotelier have simple tools for integrating with third-party revenue management software. Both of these options are normal in the industry and are not complicated to set up.
If you still require RM to be included in the base PMS package, consider these products:
- OPERA 5 and OPERA Cloud have rate management functionality and flexible inventory control features out-of-the-box, plus numerous add-ons. Read more about Oracle’s proposition here.
- Maestro PMS has an integrated dynamic rate and yield management module.
- Hotelogix has dynamic pricing features and offers price recommendations.
- IQware provides occupancy forecasts and calculates five levels of yield.
We have a more detailed overview of these and other PMSs in a separate article, so make sure to check it out. Hope it helps!
Why use TravelClick channel manager?
answered Oct 3, 2022
With the use of Channel Manager, simply when a guest makes a reservation on an online channel, it will automatically update the corresponding availability through other online booking channels that the hotel is distributing.
When you update room availability and rates on Channel Manager, it syncs with all the hotel distribution channels you're selling.
Benefits of using Channel Manager
- Help you sell the most rooms through many distribution channels without worrying about overbooking
- Reduce the time of managing room availability and rates on many different channels by using only a single management point
Which GDS offers all Info based on Booking Reference (PNR)?
answered Jan 21, 2022
The GDS that offers all Info based on Booking Reference (PNR) are as follows -
- Amadeus GDS
- Galileo GDS
These are the 2 GDS that I would suggest .
To know more information about the GDS . Go through this link.
What is the best way to get data for a metasearch hotel site?
answered Dec 22, 2020
Hello!
Concerning the first part of a question:
It’s a rule of thumb that in travel no data can be accessed for free. In most cases, you’ll need to contact either a booking platform, or a metasearch to access travel data API, if there is one.
Which is currently a big question: few platforms offer such APIs.
For example, Scyscanner has an API for sourcing pricing data dynamically. Scyscanner states that the API includes flight, hotel, and car rental data. So you may request the access by contacting them.
There is also an unofficial API on KAYAK that also offers hotel information.
So, to wrap it up, the best way is probably reaching out to other meta searches/hotel websites, to gain access to their APIs, source rates, and probably get the deeplinks.
A less recommended way is web scraping. You can monitor web pages to receive pricing and other information on booking using crawler programs. However, this isn’t reliable, as prices won’t be updated dynamically. Moreover, the use of a crawler may cause legal issues, as travel content providers forbid the use of such programs.
As for the second part of the question. The secret prices, or “Private Rates” are usually visible for authorized partners of a given hotel. These rates are shipped via a paid subscription or membership in the private rate group.
So for entering such a group, there is no other way then contacting the provider directly.
But, pay attention that private rates are not allowed to be publicly exposed. So for the metasearch business model, it’s probably not possible to use them. They are primarily intended for bed banks and other types of distributors.
How to Get GDS for Bus Booking System
answered Oct 29, 2020
Hi Muhammed,
We don’t have a confirmation that any GDS provides bus booking capabilities. But you can look into software providers such as Travelopro or Etravos to integrate bus APIs. Alternatively, you can contact Sabre, Amadeus, or Travelport for more information.
how can I store multiple travelers information during booking using loop?
asked Oct 6, 2020
I want to store multiple travelers information during booking using loop , i am using Amadeus Nodejs sdk please guide me.
ePower API for our travel website
asked Aug 16, 2020
We are India based searching ePower API for our travel website. In Indian Amadeus office nobody knows details of ePower.