Hotelbeds Group is a business-to-business (B2B) provider to the global travel industry. Launched in 2001, Hotelbeds has become one of the leading travel service suppliers of the B2B sector.
Having an API/XML connection with Hotelbeds on your website would empower you with automation that will let you handle 10x more reservations daily.
Hotelbeds Group offers travel providers access to a network of over 35,000 travel sellers from around 120 source markets globally.
If you decide to connect with Hotelbeds to XML/API connection, you will have access to:
- over 100,000 hotels (from 185 countries)
- +19,000 transfer routes (in 140 countries, with +700 destinations)
- +12,000 activities (in +120 countries with +650 destinations)
Following the acquisitions of GTA and Tourico Holidays in 2017 they are now clearly positioned as the undisputed leaders in the Bedbank space.
Types of services Travitude takes from Hotelbeds, through XML/API connection:
A: Hotels
Number of units: over 100,000 hotels (from 185 countries)
Specialization: worldwide with a focus on Europe, South-East Asia, the USA, Australia
Description language: English, Spanish, Italian, German
Supported currencies: GBP, EUR, USD
Web-site: hotelbeds.com
Travitude Hotels module features:
- Search for a hotel by city, dates of stay, number of rooms and tourists
- Filter hotels results by hotel name, stars, distance from city center, price range, trip advisor rating, type of meal, location (districts)
- Add hotels to favorites and download .pdf or send offer by email
- View hotel descriptions
- View room types and prices for each one
- View information on penalty charges
- Book hotels
- Send bookings automatically to Hotelbeds
B: Activities
Number of units: +12,000 activities (in +120 countries with +650 destinations)
Specialization: worldwide
Description language: English, Spanish, Italian, German
Supported currencies: GBP, EUR, USD
Travitude Activities module features:
- Search for activities by city, dates, number of tourists
- Add activities to favorites and download .pdf or send offer by email
- View information about the activities (description, photos, excursion dates and beginning time, duration)
- View information on penalty charges
- Book excursions
- Send bookings automatically to Hotelbeds
C: Transfers
Number of units: +19,000 transfer routes (in 140 countries, with +700 destinations)
Specialization: worldwide
Description language: English, Spanish, Italian, German
Supported currencies: GBP, EUR, USD
Travitude Transfers module features:
- Search for airport-location / location-airport or round-trip, group and VIP transfers (Hotelbeds provides transfer services to-from its hotels only)
- Search for transfers by dates, hour of pick up and number of tourists
- Choose transfer vehicle (car, minibus, etc.)
- Add transfers to favorites and download .pdf or send offer by email
- Book transfers
- Send bookings automatically to Hotelbeds
Step-by-step guide for Hotelbeds integrated API/XML offers on your website
If you are thinking to connect your website with travel suppliers like Hotelbeds, you must take into consideration some important details:
1. Capable website
You need to have a capable website platform, so platforms like Wordpress would be very difficult or impossible to use.
- With this purpose, we’ve created Travitude website platform - a dedicated website which incorporates a booking engine module with already integrated travel suppliers.
2. Use dedicated platforms
You need to know that it is very expensive to integrate XML/API suppliers by yourself; so, we recommend using dedicated platforms, such as Travitude.
3. API credentials
After you created the necessary “foundation” (travel supplier/s integrated into the website), you need to set up a commercial agreement with them, so they can give you your own API credentials, needed for Travitude or other lookalike website platforms.
- API credentials are unique and the travel supplier/s use them to identify the travel agency that sends the online reservations.
- Travitude has established strong relationships with all the important travel suppliers, so we will closely guide you through this process.
4. Payment methods
In order for the reservations to go to travel supplier/s, you also need to have set up the online credit card payment option.
- Travitude has already integrated local and worldwide payment processors and it will be an easy process.