SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A TRAVEL PLANNING APPLICATION AND A HOTEL BOOKING PROVIDER

摘要

Described herein is a system and a method for communication between a travel planning application and a hotel booking provider, using standard interfaces compliant with OpenTravel Alliance (OTA) specification for electronic exchange of business information among all sectors of the travel industry. The standard interfaces allow the integration of hotel booking providers supporting different booking processes. The interfaces are implemented in an exchange infrastructure (XI), which is a part of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution. The communication between the travel planning application and the hotel booking providers is accomplished by extensible markup language (XML) messages exchanged over simple object access protocol (SOAP).