The following pages will describe the different ways to push inventories, rates and stay restrictions from a third party software provider to Hotel-Spider and to pull/receive reservations from Hotel-Spider. Therefore these pages are only of interest for the following type of third parties:

Property Management System
Revenue Management System
Channel-Manager
Web-Booking Engine
Central Reservation System

General Description of Services

This document assumes advanced working knowledge of the HTTP protocol and the client application platform/programming to send XML messages. We do not attempt to explain these basic concepts. For further information on basic concepts and technologies required for web services, please refer to the appropriate pages on the W3C website and to the documentation for your particular development platform.

We provide the following methods for use by third party software providers for the development of customised clients systems that access the data from the Hotel-Spider environment. Using services, third party software can perform data transactions for a number of different scenarios. We provide the methods covered in this documentation with the express purposes of updating inventory, rate and stay restrictions as well as retrieving reservations for a particular property or set of properties.

Implemented protocols

In order to provide the maximum flexibility, Hotel-Spider works exclusively with market-standard protocols, namely:

OTA (Open Travel Alliance: http://www.opentravel.org)
Alpinebits (Open Data Exchange in the Alpine tourism: http://www.alpinebits.org)
HTNG (Hotel Technology Next Generation: http://www.htng.org)

Per protocol different versions (annual or bi-annual) might be available. Check the different chapters to see which versions are available.