Hotel Inventory Feed Technical Requirements

We request that you provide us with complete working example calls to your API to access catalogue

Hotels catalogue feeds should contain all hotels offered on your website in UTF-8 encoding. This needs to be available for download at any time in order to ensure that we always have an up to date inventory (HTTP/S API or download files with HTTP/S or FTP). This should be automatically downloaded in order to work with our automated process and so needs to be easily accessible by a computer and not require any human intervention. We can parse .csv, .xml and .json

Inventory feeds must include at a minimum:

1)  Name of the hotel using Unicode Latin character set. Note: hotel information should be in English, otherwise properties will get filtered out in our data release process
2)  Address of the hotel split out into multiple fields including

• Street address
• City
• Country (must be 2 letter ISO code)
• Postcode

3) Your unique identifier of the hotel (hotel ID)

4) Geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) of the hotel according to the WGS-84 

specification (the

geographic specification used by Google Maps, among other geographic information systems)

 

5)  The catalogue feeds where possible should also include

•  Star ratings
•  Pictures of the hotel (full pictures, no thumbnails, as many as possible)
•  Amenities offered by the hotel (not only internal codes but also including a textual identification of the amenity in the English language)
•  Number of rooms
• Details of any chain or group that the hotel belongs to
• Localised hotel names and descriptions in different languages and different Unicode character sets (e.g. Cyrillic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, etc as applicable)
• Phone number
• Check in/check out policies
• Pet policies