Retrieving the room types and the rate plans

Before the Hotel-Spider system can send inventories, rates and stay restrictions to an online booking system, we need to perform the room type mapping. In addition, if the online booking solution also works with rate plans, these also need to be provided.

 

Re-use of previous implementations

Aware that establishing and maintaining interfaces with multiple providers can be time-consuming, the Hotel-Spider system disposes of multiple methods to interface with on online booking system.

Should an OTA interface with a competitor and/or partner of Hotel-Spider already have been implemented, then it should be easy to re-use that code for interfacing with the Hotel-Spider system.

On the other hand, once an interface with the Hotel-Spider system has been developped, it can quite certainly be re-used to connect with our competitors and/or partners.

 

Precisely for the reason described above, the Hotel-Spider has two distinct methods to request/retrieve the room type and rate plan structure: