Creating a Hotel/Airline Booking Website?

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Howdy folks,

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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  • Here is one program that I know about because we recently helped someone who wanted to use their API
    Hotel Affiliate Program ? Hotels Combined
  • Dvduval,

    Thanks a lot for your input - but where do these guys get THEIR info from? Do they have to hammer out agreements with every single hotel/airline?
  • They probably built a large infrastructure to handle volume with lots of servers and data tools over time. It's probably a pretty large investment to work directly with the volume they have.
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    • You're looking at a pretty complex system in order to be able to directly book hotels/flights/car rentals with the major providers which will cost you a ton of money. It's much easier to become a "white label" partner with IAN: ian.com - Overview
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