Creating a Hotel/Airline Booking Website?
I am thinking of setting up hotel/airfare booking service. The idea behind is pretty simple and I'm sure you've seen it before - it's basically an aggregator of all the different available bookings, prices, etc.
My question is - how does the technical infrastructure behind it work? Where do such sites generally get their information from? Is it directly from each hotel's database, or is all the information pulled from some kind of a central online database?
If yes, how is such a database created? Do you need agreements with each individual hotel/airline, or do they already offer some kind of API or database access tool that you can use to pull their list of available offer?
I guess the bottom line is - where do all these booking aggregators get their info from?
Cheers,
George
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