I am using <a href="https://api.nobeds.com">Nobeds property management system API</a>. It has Airbnb, Booking, Expedia and other channels accesible via API

Hi there,
Hotelbeds is the leading wholesaler on the market with proven technology support and rich inventory. So, it’s definitely the first place to try. HotelsPro is much smaller, but it’s also worth checking out as they claim to have content mapping technology. If you get hotels from multiple sources, content mapping is a need-to-have feature. But keep in mind that you can also get content mapping from tech companies that specialize in it, like Giata or Gimmonix.
Besides the technical part of it, your choice boils down to specific deals that you can negotiate with wholesalers. If you can get better rates at HotelsPro, it may be the best option for you.
Also, check out our article on <a href="https://www.altexsoft.com/blog/engineering/most-popular-hotel-apis-by-bed-banks-channel-managers-gdss-otas-and-connectivity-businesses/">hotel APIs</a> for more detail.

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Hotelbeds is the good choice among the hotelspro and hotelbeds. <a href="https://www.teamindiawebdesign.com/hotelbeds-xml-api">Hotelbeds</a> is the best in the travel industry , it&nbsp; connects 35,000 travel intermediaries in more than 120 source markets to travel providers in over 180 countries who represent more than 120,000 hotels, 21,000 transfer routes, and 12,000 activities.

Which is the better API for Hotel Booking integration HotelBeds or HotelsPro

Hi there,
First, this business model is viable. There are hundreds of online travel agencies that work with flights and hotels only.
But it’s actually hard to give absolutely accurate numbers. Why? The thing is, every online travel agency tries to get a competitive edge over others by finding the lowest rates possible to increase their margins. This can be done by negotiating rates with GDSs, suppliers, and consolidators/wholesalers. And, these negotiated deals aren’t usually disclosed.
Traditionally, commissions that large OTAs like Expedia and Booking.com receive range from 15-30 percent in the hotel industry. If you use the Booking.com API as a partner, expect an average commission of about <a href="https://partner.booking.com/en-gb/help/commission-invoices-tax/how-much-commission-do-i-pay">15 percent</a> going to Booking.com with commissions differing based on the region.
Flights are more complex and commissions there are usually lower. But they will depend on the agreements that you negotiate with providers, GDSs in particular. Also, keep in mind that you won’t be able to issue tickets if you aren’t IATA-certified. This also comes at a cost that will depend on what kind of travel provider you are and the regions you operate in.
Also, a large part of online travel agency success revolves around the <a href="https://www.altexsoft.com/blog/travel/managing-an-online-travel-agency-how-back-office-system-of-an-ota-works/">search and commission engine</a> that you tweak on your side.
Finally, you have to invest heavily in marketing to jumpstart your traffic.
So, yeah it’s a viable business model if you do a lot of things right.

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To be more specific is it possible to survive by only selling plane tickets + hotel rooms? Say for example using Amadeus' API for the plane tickets and Booking's API for hotel rooms. What do would you say is the average revenue per reservation using this kind of revenue model? Any information on commissions is welcome as I feel this is often hard to find.

Is there any business model that rely only on commission fees?

Hi there,
So, a few things to have in mind when choosing a channel manager:
Your desired reach, meaning the number of connections it has to distribute your rooms at. For example, the most popular CM Siteminder has 350 channels, and TravelClick (according to its website) will connect you to 400 OTAs. Not bad at all.
Next, what niche of channels does it connect to? Do you want to be listed on the biggest websites or specialty ones? Dig through their <a href="https://www.travelclick.com/solutions/reservations-and-booking-engine/connections/">list of connections</a> to make sure it works for you.
Also, of course, the price you’re willing to pay. CMs usually have you pay a service fee per month plus the percentage of revenue from each channel or fee per each booking. Usually, the monthly fee will be below $100, but it greatly depends on the number of rooms you have. TravelClick doesn’t have the pricing listed on the website, but if you contact them directly and describe your situation, they should give you that info. Don’t forget to compare it to the prices from other CMs, we have described the <a href="https://www.altexsoft.com/blog/engineering/hotel-channel-managers-key-providers-and-how-to-choose-a-channel-manager/">main competitors here</a>.
We can’t give you a direct answer whether you should use TravelClick. Try as many channel managers as you can (thankfully, many have a trial period) and make an educated choice.

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Why use TravelClick channel manager?

Hi there,
I don’t think you can, because Dohop uses a Booking.com affiliate solution to run its accommodations. So, you should try <a href="https://www.booking.com/affiliate-program/v2/index.html">Booking.com affiliate program</a> instead.

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How to do Dohop hotel API integration?

Hi there,
I think what you’re looking for is <a href="https://www.booking.com/affiliate-program/v2/index.html">Booking.com</a> and <a href="https://affiliates.expediagroup.com/home">Expedia</a> affiliate programs. They suggest various widgets that you can integrate in iframe.
Regarding Kayak, they don’t use iframes. If you consider making metasearch functionality similar to Kayak, you’ll likely need to integrate both <a href="https://developer.expediapartnersolutions.com/getting-started/">Expedia</a> and <a href="https://developers.booking.com/api/index.html?version=2.4">Booking.com</a> APIs to source IDs and other hotel content. Again, to connect Booking APIs, you’ll have to sign up for their affiliate program. To access Expedia API, apply <a href="https://expediapartnersolutions.com/become-a-partner">here</a>.

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I want to show both expedia.com and booking.com in iframe in my website as done in kayak.com website, and also how to get the reign ids or hotel ids of both expedia.com and booking.com, so that i can pass it in the url to display in iframe

How to integrate expedia.com and booking.com in my website as done by kayak.com

Hi Vanit,
I’m afraid we don’t have a full list of those. We are planning to release an article with a wide overview of the largest room suppliers this month. So, stay tuned. Meanwhile, you may read our article about <a href="https://www.altexsoft.com/blog/engineering/travel-and-booking-apis-for-online-travel-and-tourism-service-providers/">travel APIs</a>. We mention many suppliers there.

Answer for Kindly Provide the list of all hotels suppliers worldwide which provide API to travel agents like Hotels beds, hotels pro. please Provide complete list for that.

Kindly Provide the list of all hotels suppliers worldwide which provide API to travel agents like Hotels beds, hotels pro. please Provide complete list for that.

Hi there,
We mostly work with GDSs. So, <a href="https://developers.amadeus.com/pricing">Amadeus</a> suggests 2,000 free requests per month for low-fare search and 3,000 requests for a regular search, given that you use their self-service APIs. Sabre doesn&rsquo;t have fixed rates and everything must be discussed individually.
As for other players, Skyscanner claims to provide all API services for free, if you can negotiate commercial partnership with them. Their limit is up to 100 requests per minute for live prices. You are right that Kiwi doesn&rsquo;t provide open info on their rates, so it&rsquo;s worth contacting them directly. The same for Travelfusion, Orbitz, and Priceline.
You can also try your luck with ATPCO, that&rsquo;s where all flight prices come from.

Answer for Hi, looking for a flight price API with the highest number of price requests for free  (no booking needed yet).  I'm testing route optimization strategies which will result in lots of API calls. Kiwi's doesn't say if it limits? Any other suggestion?

Hi, looking for a flight price API with the highest number of price requests for free  (no booking needed yet).  I'm testing route optimization strategies which will result in lots of API calls. Kiwi's doesn't say if it limits? Any other suggestion?

First, you need to become <a href="https://dev.opentable.com/partner-portal">OpenTable affiliate</a>. You have to fill in the form and pass their vetting procedure. If they approve you as a partner, you’ll be able to source restaurant info via their API and place reservation links in your app or website. Currently, OpenTable doesn’t allow for running full reservation process via the API. Your users will have to complete reservations using the OpenTable interface. The <a href="https://platform.opentable.com/documentation/#directory-api">API</a> sources publicly available restaurant info such as addresses, postal codes, aggregated scores, number of reviews, and food categories. The data is sent and received in JSON.
If OpenTable API doesn’t work for you, you may check other <a href="../../blog/engineering/online-restaurant-reservation-landscape-location-discovery-table-booking-delivery-and-reviews/">restaurant and review APIs</a> that we’ve talked about in our article.

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How to use OpenTable API in apps?

Hi there,
Traditionally, GDSs offer access to back office via dedicated account. That assumes you will have to sign a contract with whichever GDS provider you choose and discuss the price to access this data personally. In any case, there is no well-known GDS back-office system that offers openly-published data without any subscriptions.
We hope it answers the question.

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Are there any GDS Backoffice or Midoffice online SAAS systems where you can signup online with openly published pricing?

Hello, 
&nbsp; 
Perhaps, there are not many options rather than described in official <a href="https://richmedia.sabre.com/docs/teletraining/PNRSG.pdf">PNR retrieval guides</a> by SABRE. Concerning the price, retrieving PNR doesn&rsquo;t require any payments, despite the fact you have to be subscribed to SABRE.

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What is the best and cheapest option to extract data (ticket or PNR) from Sabre?

Hi there, 
&nbsp; 
The most popular backoffice solution available for SABRE is <a href="https://www.sabretravelnetwork.com/home/solutions/product/trams_back_office">TRAMS Back Office</a>, which comes as a part of <a href="https://www.sabretravelnetwork.com/home/solutions/product/sabre_red_workspace">SABRE Red Workspace</a>. Unfortunately, both solutions are desktop, meaning they have to be installed on each computer. As for the pricing, there is no publicly available information about the subscription price. 
&nbsp;

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What systems are available for Sabre backoffice as SAAS pay monthly?

Hello Mark,
We don’t have direct experience with Skyscanner, so it’s hard to tell how exactly their vetting process works. But it’s true that they don’t reply to everyone and may expect some traffic before letting you use their products.
You may try working with GDSs that support small businesses with a handful of APIs. <a href="https://developers.amadeus.com/quick-start-guide/category?id=97&amp;durl=335&amp;parentId=NaN">Amadeus</a>, for instance, has flight APIs that are free for test environments, have a limited number of free calls, and fees once this threshold is exceeded.

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Yes, their API has low entry requirement, but I often find their prices incompetitve.

Thanks for the reply. I am trying to monetise my travel website. Amadeus API does not support commercial use. Of course, there are other commercial flight APIs, but skyscanner's looks a bit more comprehensive.
Btw, I receive over a dozen of identical email notification regarding a new answer to this question. This sounds like a bug that may cause people to block your email services.

Thank you for bringing the email issue up! Regarding Amadeus, they’ve recently updated their API portal and claim that Self-Service APIs can be used for production and commercial purposes. Have you also checked <a href="https://docs.kiwi.com/">Kiwi API</a>?

For a developed but un-marketed startup website that have 0 visitors, how to maximise the chances skyscanner will provide flight API?

How do companies like skyscanner vet their flight API application? What are the requirements an applicantion must have?

The providers of Car Rental API are -
<ul>
<li>Amadeus</li>
<li>Sabre</li>
<li>TravelPort</li>
<li>Travel Fusion</li>
</ul>
It is type of a software component of car rental service provider websites that grants permission to travel agents to search for great car deals and to manage car rental reservations.
Go through this link for getting more details about - <a href="https://www.teamindiawebdesign.com/">Car Rental API </a>

Do you have some good examples of Trawex? Seems to be scammers, as we paid 4000 for carr ental API and recieved nothing. In the end of integration of the "API" that doesn't much with their demo they ask us to include payment information of the clients wich is transfered via text areas to the third parties and not through the safe payment gateway. Support doesn't answer. As we fund them thanks to this website

Hi Mike, 
&nbsp; 
Thank you for the good question. 
&nbsp; 
Both Cartrawler and Carnect are car rental data aggregators. 
&nbsp; 
<a href="https://www.cartrawler.com/ct/">Cartrawler</a> B2B travel technology platform consolidates international car rental and ground transportation brands including buses, chauffeurs, and taxi transfers from over 2,000 travel retail providers in 50,000 locations. Cartrawler openly claims collaboration with such car rental agencies as AVIS, Enterprise, Hertz, Dollar, Sixt, and Budget. For more details, you better <a href="https://www.cartrawler.com/ct/?section=online-travel-retailer#online-travel-retailer">contact them directly</a> with the inquiry.&nbsp; 
&nbsp; 
Now, <a href="https://www.carnect.com/">Carnect</a>&rsquo;s partners portfolio is over 500 car rental companies in 170 countries and 30.000 locations. Among their suppliers, in addition to AVIS, Enterprise, Hertz, Dollar, and Sixt, they also mention Alamo, Europcar, National, Thrifty, OK Rent a Car, Record Go, Goldcar, and Centauro. But again, it&rsquo;s not their extensive list.&nbsp; 
&nbsp; 
Carnect offers the following integration options:
<ul>
<li>API to integrate their car rental product into your system</li>
<li>booking engine in the form of a white label</li>
<li>full native and HTML5 integration options to integrate car products and services into a native mobile app</li>
</ul>
If you decide to integrate directly with each separate car rental agency, it will depend on what connectivity options they are able to offer. Mind that not all of them have APIs. In our article, we tell how to connect to the major <a href="https://www.altexsoft.com/blog/engineering/car-rental-apis-integrations-with-gdss-otas-and-tech-providers/">car rental suppliers</a>. So, among them only Avis, as you said, has a free API. Dollar and Thrifty, Enterprise Holdings, and Auto Europe have affiliate programs, Hertz operates through GDSs, while Sixt provides partners with banners, buttons, and text links. So in case, a desired car rental agency doesn&rsquo;t offer an API, you can try to work it out yourself or leverage the existing solutions like Cartrawler and Carnect. 
&nbsp; 
Let us know if you have any other questions left.

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So if we want to get connected directly with the car rental agencies what should we do? AVIS has an open API. What about the rest? Where do Cartrawler and Carnect get their content from? Can we get APIs directly from car rental agencies? 
&nbsp; 
Thanks a lot 
Mike

The main providers of car rental APIs are global distribution systems (GDSs): <a href="https://beta.developer.sabre.com/home">Sabre</a>, <a href="https://developers.amadeus.com/enterprise/category/car-and-transfers">Amadeus</a>, and <a href="https://support.travelport.com/webhelp/uapi/uapi.htm#SampleWeb/Alternative_Sample_Pages/Samples_Vehicle_Transactions.htm">Travelport</a>. You should contact them directly to gain access and receive and API key.
It may be a challenging task for a small business to get full access to GDSs solutions, so you can consider traveltech providers that support car rental connection like <a href="https://www.trawex.com/car-api.php">Trawex</a> or <a href="https://www.travelopro.com/car-api.php">Travelpro</a>.
There’s also some support at online travel agencies (<a href="https://skyscanner.github.io/slate/#car-hire-live-prices">Skyscanner</a>, <a href="https://pricelinepartnernetwork.com/world-class-api">Priceline</a>, etc). To access those, you normally must use affiliate partner contacts. Finally, one of the largest car rental suppliers, <a href="https://developer.avis.com/getting-started">Avis</a>, has a public API.
Besides APIs, many suppliers support affiliate links and banners, if that works for you. You may check <a href="https://www.altexsoft.com/blog/engineering/car-rental-apis-integrations-with-gdss-otas-and-tech-providers/">car rental connectivity options</a> in our article in more detail.

How to get car rental API?

EDI stands for Electronic Data Interchange. Basically, it’s a network established between two physical computers that can exchange data using messages with a data transmission protocol. In the modern world, EDI systems can use internet connection and modern data exchange protocols like HTTP.
EDI systems are used to exchange different sorts of standardized documents between two computers. The documents are formed by the computer itself, so human involvement is minimized. Traditionally, document types generated by EDI are purchase orders, invoices, bills, or shipping statuses. Those are generated in a standardized form to avoid language barriers or other human factors making its possible for two agents understand each other. <a href="https://www.altexsoft.com/blog/business/how-to-connect-to-transport-providers-key-carriers-edi-apis-e-awb/">EDI is actively used in transportation and logistics</a> for shipment document exchange.

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How does EDI work?

Hello tanguy colou,
The most precise answer would be: Skyscanner doesn’t need to connect with GDSs, as long as GDS provides distribution and booking capabilities. Which is not the case for Skyscanner, as they consolidate flight data from various sources, and allow users to find this data.
As we can judge from the available information, Skyscanner may source their information in a couple of different ways:
<ol>
<li>API connection with data aggregator platforms like OAG and ATPCO. Since 2018 Skyscanner also participates in IATA’s <a href="https://www.atpco.net/blog/press/ndc-adds-skyscanner">NDC exchange</a> platform along with ATPCO and SITA.</li>
<li>Skyscanner is also known for screen-scraping RSS feed data from OTA or airline's websites, that don’t have travel APIs in free access. Nevertheless, Skyscanner is allowed to source data via screen-scraping, like in the <a href="https://www.skyscanner.net/press-releases/ryanair-comparison-site-cancellations-no-effect-skyscanner-users">case with Ryanair</a>.</li>
<li>As an exception, Skyscanner took part in Altea NDC platform development, which is owned by Amadeus. As a result, Skyscanner allows booking <a href="https://amadeus.com/en/insights/press-release/finnair-skyscanner-and-amadeus-join-forces-to-boost-conversion-with-assisted-bookings">Finnair tickets without leaving Skyscanner.com</a>.</li>
</ol>
So, basically, Skyscanner uses API connectivity with available carriers or OTAs to source data, or screen scrape it. If you are interested in connecting with Skyscanner, you may read about their available APIs in <a href="https://www.altexsoft.com/blog/engineering/travel-and-booking-apis-for-online-travel-and-tourism-service-providers/">our dedicated article</a>.
Hope it gives you the answer to your question!

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I'm wondering if Skyscanner is using a GDS or if they deal directly with the airlines and OTA's through API's ?

How Skyscanner gets its suppliers?

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Hotels.com has an <a href="https://ca.hotels.com/hotel-deals/travel-affiliate-program/">affiliate program</a> that you may try. But it’s hard to tell whether their affiliate program provides you with an API. Since Hotels.com belongs to Expedia, it shares hotel inventory with most Expedia brands, including Hotwire, Orbitz, Trivago, Travelocity, and many more. 
 Instead of Hotels.com integration, we’d recommend considering <a href="https://developer.expediapartnersolutions.com/">Expedia Partner Solutions</a>. Check what they offer at their website or in our article on <a href="https://www.altexsoft.com/blog/engineering/travel-and-booking-apis-for-online-travel-and-tourism-service-providers/">travel APIs</a>.

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How to get the hotels.com API?

Hi Olexander 
Thanks for your reply and the associated links. 
I appreciate my question wasn't very specific- I was just trying to understand whether any channel management software providers ever provide hotel rates to other products to allow the data mining of these rates and potentially bookings following this analysis. 
Maybe it's the wrong forum for this discussion and I'm more than happy to email more details direct if you've got the time to consider. 
Thanks again 
Ted

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Hi Olexander 
One more question you may be able to help with...although I suspect it'll be difficult to answer. 
In the google hotel Ads API, if I understand it correctly, google requires connected hotels to provide all pricing data for a period of 30 days for each length of stay between 1 and 7 days. Do you know if google applies rate limiting to developers who may want to query this data? 
Thanks 
Ted

Hi Olexander 
Its been some time since I last contacted you and hopefully you can help again. 
We have developed software to access hotel data from the the larger OTA API's (and some GDSs) but understandably (in hindsight!) these systems are rate limited to prevent excessive loads on them (limiting the number of API calls a provider can make per minute before the API returns HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests). This means mining for rates for length of stays is impracticle. Do you have any suggestions or ideas on overcoming this limitation other than perhaps integrating closer to the source of this hotel data (like with the RMS - not sure if this is possible or the implications?). 
Thanks for any feedback. 
Best regards 
Ted

Hi Olexander 
It's likely my lack of understanding so apologies in advance. 
Is it correct that a channel manager product connects to an OTA (or multiple OTA's) seamlessly for transferring as a minimum room rates and availability and in return receives bookings from the OTA via the channel manager to pass onto the PMS?? 
If an hotel is using a particular channel manager and they want to connect to say Expedia then when they configure Expedia (having got a partnership agreed) then does the hotel 'simply' select from within the Expedia setup the relevant channel manager product and they're on line through that OTA? 
If the channel manager connects to multiple OTAs then can I assume the channel manager product has either supported the OTAs API 'for channel management' or less likely in terms of the larger OTA's the OTA has supported the channel manager own API? 
Sorry if this is incorrect but in a nutshell I'm trying to understand the pieces and the integrations. 
Thanks again for any help. 
Best regards 
Ted 
&nbsp;

Hello Ted,
We haven’t heard of that kind of software. Usually, channel managers and other travel data providers reveal their data to hotels, property/revenue management systems, online travel agencies, and metasearch engines – basically, customer- or hotel-facing businesses to support room reservation.
Without any detail about the problem you're trying to solve, it’s hard to suggest anything specific. But if you consider data mining and analysis, consider open datasets like <a href="https://data.world/datasets/hotel">these on data.world</a>. Also, check what’s available on <a href="https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?q=hotel&amp;sort=views_recent+desc&amp;res_format=CSV&amp;as_sfid=AAAAAAW7W6aJ2uwNQaasFE1NsGCli42GaG2JeOIYQjSPS_3bUliCLswggnxAWzWMJ330lZRssScLlwlLlAnNGGbqntTstqBnv6byjHFmnxb3wbz-IpYe01woIufV2MlnO7ba7bw%3D&amp;as_fid=e5c6e9b2984f6777bd1fce577d82e2ca17c7e5b1&amp;ext_location=&amp;ext_bbox=&amp;ext_prev_extent=-142.03125%2C-3.162455530237848%2C-59.0625%2C55.57834467218206">data.gov for hotels</a>, and <a href="https://www.kaggle.com/datafiniti/hotel-reviews">Kaggle for hotel reviews</a>.
Have a look at our article on <a href="https://www.altexsoft.com/blog/datascience/best-public-machine-learning-datasets/">mining public datasets</a>. These datasets can provide you with locations, reviews, and some inventory details. But if you're looking for pricing and changes in pricing over time, this might be a much trickier data-mining problem. There are some datasets with pricing like <a href="https://www.kaggle.com/c/expedia-personalized-sort/overview">this one</a> but usually the pricing and demand data isn’t available in dataset formats.
I hope this helps.

Hello Ted,
If you're okay with sharing some details here, I can try answering your questions. Unfortunately, we haven’t heard of any channel managers that provide hotel rates to other products.

Hi Ted,
<blockquote>
"Is it correct that a channel manager product connects to an OTA (or multiple OTA’s) seamlessly for transferring as a minimum room rates and availability and in return receives bookings from the OTA via the channel manager to pass onto the PMS??"
</blockquote>
Yes, that correct.
<blockquote>
"If an hotel is using a particular channel manager and they want to connect to say Expedia then when they configure Expedia (having got a partnership agreed) then does the hotel ‘simply’ select from within the Expedia setup the relevant channel manager product and they’re on line through that OTA?"
</blockquote>
Not exactly. Normally, you can configure the connection to your channels (OTAs) right from the channel manager interface without dealing with OTAs directly.
<blockquote>
"If the channel manager connects to multiple OTAs then can I assume the channel manager product has either supported the OTAs API ‘for channel management’ or less likely in terms of the larger OTA’s the OTA has supported the channel manager own API?"
</blockquote>
That’s correct. For instance, <a href="https://connect.booking.com/">Booking.com Connectivity APIs</a> are created specifically for channel managers and property management systems.
I hope this helps!

Hi Olexander 
That’s really helpful thank you. 
I’ll likely have more questions in time but for now I’ve got a much better understanding. 
Best regards 
Ted 
&nbsp;

Are there products connecting to channel managers to source data for mining and analysis rather than distribution of rates?

Hello Ted,
Booking.com, as well as most major OTAs, has its own web interface, an <a href="https://join.booking.com/how_to_join.html?label=gog235jc-1BCAEoggI46AdIM1gDaOkBiAEBmAEJuAEXyAEM2AEB6AEBiAIBqAIDuAKRjtLlBcACAQ&amp;aid=397594">extranet</a>. Basically, the extranet is a dashboard for managing a property. There you can add photos of your property, provide rates, define policies, configure payments, etc.
But there’s a problem with using an extranet. If you want to list your property at multiple OTAs like Booking.com, Airbnb, Expedia, and more, you have to manually update room availability in each separate extranet belonging to different OTAs.
That’s why some hotels -  those that want to distribute their properties via many channels at once - <a href="https://www.altexsoft.com/blog/engineering/hotel-channel-managers-key-providers-and-how-to-choose-a-channel-manager/">use channel managers</a>. These systems have their own dashboards and automatically update room availability and property details across all connected OTAs. So, hotel owners can operate using channel manager software only.
But since there are many small property owners that are fine with managing their rooms manually in a handful of OTAs, they stick with extranets. It’s likely that the majority of hoteliers listing their properties at Booking.com are doing so.

Answer for Can hotels connect to Booking.com (or other OTA) without channel managers? If so, how?

Hi Olexander 
Sorry I didn't reply sooner and thank you for your detailed answer which has helped explain the differential between numbers of deployed channel management products versus numbers of hotels presented within the larger OTAs. 
Best regards 
Ted 
&nbsp; 
&nbsp;

Answer for Can hotels connect to Booking.com (or other OTAs) without channel managers? If so, how?

I read (hopefully correctly) that you need to go through a channel manager to connect to booking.com but when I looked at the hotel base of a popular channel managers (e.g. Siteminder 30,000 properties and who also connect to booking.com) I'm struggling to understand how the rest of Booking.com's hotels connect. Any help / advise would be very much appreciated. 30,000 is a small number compared with the number of hotels advertised on booking.com. Please excuse my naivety as I'm new to this.

Can hotels connect to Booking.com (or other OTAs) without channel managers? If so, how?

Kayak has an <a href="https://www.kayak.com/affiliates">affiliate program</a> that you must enroll in before integrating their API. Keep in mind that Kayak doesn’t permit integration unless your platform has more than 100,000 monthly visitors.
If you have more, you can use their API or white label. To proceed you have to define which kinds of search data you want to receive and contact them directly.
If you have fewer than 100,000 monthly visitors, Kayak offers an affiliate programs trial using third party affiliate networks like CJ or Webgains. They will connect you with smaller brands belonging to Booking Holdings, like Momondo.

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Hi there,
It’s nearly impossible to get access to all airline seating info as some airlines may not share this data in the first place.
However, there are two main options. The first one is obvious: you may contact airlines directly and ask for their API access with seating capabilities. For instance, Lufthansa Open API provides <a href="https://developer.lufthansa.com/docs/read/api_details/offers/Seat_Maps">seat maps</a>. But most airlines don’t support APIs at all.
The second option is to source seating info from GDSs.
Amadeus provides seat maps in their <a href="https://developers.amadeus.com/enterprise/category/117/api/150">enterprise APIs</a>. 
Sabre has a broad set of <a href="https://beta.developer.sabre.com/product-catalog?query=seat&amp;f%5B0%5D=category%3Aair&amp;f%5B1%5D=target_audience%3A3&amp;f%5B2%5D=target_audience%3A4">APIs for seating</a>. 
And TravelPort Universal API has a <a href="https://support.travelport.com/webhelp/uapi/uAPI.htm#Seat%20Maps/Seat_Map_v35_later.htm%3FTocPath%3DAir%7CSeat%2520Maps%7C_____1">seat map capability</a>.
They still may be limited by the data that carriers provide.
It doesn’t look like <a href="https://www.seatguru.com/">SeatGuru</a> has an open API, but it’s also worth trying to contact them directly. 
Getting access to GDS APIs isn’t that simple, but it seems like the best option for your problem.

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<li>airplane seat map</li>
<li>available seats, unavailable seats, updated real-time</li>
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