Hotel Shopping and Booking

The following table represents a basic, end-to-end flow for Hotel Shopping an Booking. Some transactions are optional, or can be performed as stand-alone functionality that is separate from the shopping and booking business flow.

Functionality

Description

Hotel Search

Required. Requests available hotel properties that meet the requested search parameters. A number of modifiers can be used to narrow the search results.

Hotel Rate and Rule Search

Required. Returns room rates and rate rules for bookings for a specified hotel property.

Hotel Description

Optional, stand-alone transaction. Requests a property description and location information for a specific hotel property. The exact property must be known to return this data.

Hotel Media

Optional, stand-alone transaction. Requests graphics or video files for a hotel property.

Hotel Rules

Optional, but recommended. Requests a rules detail for a selected booking code.

Hotel Booking

Required. Creates a hotel reservation based on the room and rate results from a Detailed Hotel Search response.