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HotelRateDetail/TaxDetails/Tax
HotelRulesRsp, HotelUpsellDetailsReq, RequestedHotelDetails
Overview
Hotel suppliers may return a breakdown of individual taxes, fees and surcharges that amount to the total taxes and fees applicable to a room rate. Various types of taxes and fees are defined by the Open Travel Alliance (OTA) in a Fee and Tax Type (FTT) Code table. Travelport supports each of the OTA-suggested FTT types.
The Universal API Hotel Tax Table provides the tax breakdown for each individual tax and fee in the Hotel Rules and Hotel Booking responses. This table is retrieved via Reference Data.
Tax and fee types vary by provider and supplier.
Schema
| Element/Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Tax |
Displays the items related to how the hotels collect taxes. Note: If the Tax total is 0.00, be sure to review RoomRateDescription content for additional taxes, which may be returned as free-text data. |
| @Code | The associated tax code type. |
| @EffectiveDate | The date the tax code is in effect. |
| @ExpirationDate |
The date the tax code expires. |
| @Term | Indicates how the tax is applied. Values can be PerPerson, PerNight, and PerStay. |
| @CollectionFreq | Indicates how often the tax is collected. Values can be Once or Daily. |
| @Amount | A monetary value for tax/fee/surcharge. |
| @Percentage | A percentage of the subtotal. |
How To
In Release 7.1 and earlier, Reference Data for Apollo and Galileo could be retrieved only from the Reference Data download. In Release 8.0 (Utilities v29.0 and Hotel v29.0), functionality to retrieve Taxes and Fees using the Reference Data services was added.
Reference Point data tables can now be downloaded via ReferenceDataRetrieveReq.
- In Utility.xsd, use ReferenceDataRetrieveReq to download the data tables.
- Set ReferenceDataRetrieveReq @TypeCode to "HotelTaxType".
- To request an entire data table, set ReferenceDataRetrieveReq/ReferenceDataSearchModifiers StartFromResult="0" and leave the value for @MaxResults empty.
- To request a block of rows, set the value of @StartFromResult from the desired table row and set @MaxResults to indicate the desired increment to retrieve.
For example: ReferenceDataSearchModifiers MaxResults="200" StartFromResult="1" returns rows 1 to 200.
Note: Note that the ReferenceDataSearch services, which encode and decode individual items, are not applicable for hotel taxes and fees. This Reference Data table can only be retrieved either for the entire data table or in sections by table line numbers.
