OpenTravel Alliance Finalizes 2010B New Message & Business Functionality
OpenTravel Alliance (OpenTravel), the travel industry’s leading distribution specification and standards development organization, announces the publication of the 2010B message and business functionality schema.
OpenTravel Alliance (OpenTravel), the travel industry’s leading distribution specification and standards development organization, announces the publication of the 2010B message and business functionality schema.
"There are many changes going on in the travel industry, and we understand those changes have to be represented in the industry's standard messaging library for it to be relevant and useful," said Valyn Perini, executive director of OpenTravel. "From adding IATA's EMD data elements to airline messages to no-show fees in car rentals to a substantial increase in the number of messages for railways, OpenTravel is working hard to serve the needs of the industry."
The following new message specifications were evaluated and finalized, as indicated previously:
- Hotel Inventory Change Message: Facilitates streamlined hotel inventory availability transactions for trading partners that cache hotel rates and availability information from hotel suppliers. The messages are designed to alleviate two significant challenges faced by both hotel suppliers and their trading partners – 1) out of sync caches, and 2) rising infrastructure/support costs associated with handling a high volume of availability transactions
- Rail Schedule: Facilitates exchanging rail schedule information between a rail operator and trading partners.
- Rail Confirm Booking Facilitates exchanging rail booking information between a rail operator and trading partners
- Rail Ignore Booking: Facilitates exchanging rail booking cancellation between a rail operator and trading partners
- Rail Payment: Facilitates payment for a rail reservation
As well as the following enhanced OpenTravel messages:
- Vehicle Rental No Show Fees: Facilitates a no show fee charged to a customer
- Electronic Miscellaneous Documents (EMD) for Air Messages: Facilitates the exchange of ancillary fee-related information
- Charitable Donation Information in Air, Car and Hotel Bookings: Supports micro-donations in OpenTravel airline, car rental and hotel booking request messages
To access the full schema go to http://www.opentravel.org/Specifications or click here.
About OpenTravel Alliance
OpenTravel's mission is to engineer specifications to ensure traveler and supplier information flow smoothly throughout travel, tourism and hospitality. OpenTravel creates, expands and drives adoption of open specifications, including but not limited to the use of XML, for the electronic exchange of business information among all sectors of the travel industry. OpenTravel is comprised of companies representing airlines, car rental firms, hotels, cruise lines, railways, leisure suppliers, service providers, tour operators, travel agencies, solutions providers, technology companies and distributors. Tens of thousands of OpenTravel message structures are in use, carrying tens of millions of messages between trading partners every day. To learn more about OpenTravel visit www.opentravel.org.
