What is a Hotel API? How it works?

A Hotel API is a program interface that helps suppliers sell their extensive hotel inventory to individual OTAs (Online Travel Agencies) for resale via B2B or B2C booking platforms. It’s a complex program interface with the ability to retrieve hotel inventory content, pricing, booking data, revenue, and more, as per business needs.

If you think you can start an online travel agency by simply uploading hotel inventory (images, pricing, content), assuming they will appear worldwide and people can book it anywhere, it’s not that simple. Developing a website as a simple static page will not help you expand in the long run.

To resolve this problem, Hotel API providers come into the picture. Hotel suppliers collect a vast number of hotel inventories and data as per the policy. OTAs need to purchase and connect this inventory to the booking engine, but they can’t do it manually as it’s complex to configure.
 
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